Career & Technical Education
Cultivating Lifelong Learners for Tomorrow’s Workforce
Friendswood ISD Career and Technical Education Mission Statement
Susan Kirkpatrick
Executive Director of Career & Technical Education
Room #349 | Phone 281-996-6558
Laura Gutierrez
Career and Technical Education Assistant
Room #349 Phone 281-996-6537
Nondiscrimination Notices
Elective Course Photos and Videos
Agricultural Science:
• Students Show Animals at Westwood-Bales
• FFA LDE District 6 Results
• FFA Hosts First Annual Cookoff
• Livestock Show Results – 2018
• Faculty Night at the AG Barn
Health Science Technology Education:
• HOSA
• PLTW Biomedical Science
• PLTW Principles of Biomedical Science
• PM Clinical Teaching Projects
Hospitality and Culinary Arts:
• Cake Wars
• Culinary Arts 2019
• Culinary Arts Pastry Unit CHEESECAKE
• Culinary Arts Pastry Unit ECLAIRS
• Culinary Arts at Work
• Culinary Field Trip to Kona Grill
• Culinary Student Thanksgiving
• Cafe Blue
• Pasta from Scratch
• Cafe Blue Preparing Tortilla Soup
• Fire Safety
• Floral Design Deco Mesh Daisy/Dandelion Wreaths
• Floral Students Design for the Chamber of Commerce
• Mother’s Day Floral Arrangements
• Pizza Lab
• Pork Cafe Blue
• Vegetable Bouquets in Floral Design
• “Woo Hoo!” Cooking Videos
• “Ziti Cafe Blue
Faculty 2024-2025
Bailey Beken, Ag Science/ Floral Design, FFA
Abigail Colbert, Health Science, HOSA
James Cook, Business, Marketing, and Finance, BPA
Jim Foreman, PLTW Engineering, FIRSTRobotics, SkillsUSA-Engineering & SystemsGo Rocketry, INcubatoredu
Laura Gutierrez, CTE Administrative Assistant
Jon Hall, Law & Public Service, SkillsUSA Law
Brooke Holtvluwer, Education & Training, NTHS, FCCLA
Susan Kirkpatrick, Executive Director CTE
Eva Lord, Hospitality & Tourism-Culinary, NTHS, FCCLA
Heather Martin, PLTW Biomedical Science, HOSA
Melissa Novak, Hospitality & Tourism, Culinary, NTHS, FCCLA
Jane Pearce, Business Marketing and Finance, BPA
Sammey Ralph , Ag Barn Manager
Trevor Reifel, Ag Science, FFA
Madelyn Rosenberg, PLTW Biomedical Science
Melissa Sauceda, PLTW Engineering, FIRST Robotics, SkillsUSA-Engineering
Rachel Sawyer, Ag Science/Floral Design, FFA
Angelique Suggs, Graphic Design, Arts & A/V Technology, Skills USA AV
Al Taglialavore, Team Leader, Arts & A/V Technology, Skills USA AV, Scoreboard, CTE iCoach, Career Prep
Lisa Thames, Education and Training, FCCLA
Sarah Violetta, Health Science, HOSA
Sheri Walker, Culinary Assistant
Annette Walter, Computer Science, Computer Club, UIL Computer Science, Cyberpatriots
Evan Williams, PLTW Engineering, FIRST Robotics, & SkillsUSA-Engineering
PROJECT LEAD THE WAY
PLTW Engineering Students Become Tomorrow’s Problem Solvers Today
From launching space explorations to delivering safe, clean water to communities, engineers find solutions to pressing problems and turn their ideas into reality. PLTW Engineering empowers students to step into the role of an engineer, adopt a problem-solving mindset, and make the leap from dreamers to doers. The program’ s courses engage students in compelling, real-world challenges that help them become better collaborators and thinkers. Students take from the courses in-demand knowledge and skills they will use in high school and for the rest of their lives, on any career path they take.
PLTW Engineering courses are part of the AP + PLTW Engineering Pathway. | PLTW Engineering video
PLTW Biomedical Science Empower Tomorrow’s Biomedical Science Professionals Today
Whether discovering new cancer treatments or teaching healthy lifestyle choices to their communities, today’s biomedical science professionals are tackling big challenges to make the world a better place.
PLTW Biomedical Science students are taking on these same real-world challenges – and they’re doing it before they even graduate from high school. Working with the same tools used by professionals in hospitals and labs, students engage in compelling, hands-on activities and work together to find solutions to problems. Students take from the courses in-demand knowledge and skills they will use in high school and for the rest of their lives, on any career path they take.
PLTW Biomedical Science courses are part of the AP + PLTW Biomedical Science Pathway. | PLTW Biomedical Science video