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• Students in the Building Construction program build a new house each year, which is located in the Saginaw Area.

• In the Automotive Technology program at the Saginaw Career Complex, students actually take an engine apart and learn how to put it back together--and it will run!

• Part of their class time, for students in the Golf/Turf Management program, will be spent on a golf course.

• Students in the Medical Careers, Nursing Occupations, and Advanced Medical Careers/Nursing programs will have the opportunity to spend at least 3 days per week, for 15 weeks, working and learning in the real world in a medical environment.

• Students in the Electricity program will wire the house that the students in the Building Construction program build.

• The Saginaw Career Complex is the only high school in the State of Michigan to have a chemical processing technology laboratory that has been equipped to operate like a real life chemical processing technology laboratory. The Dow Chemical Company and Dow Corning Corporation built the laboratory, which cost over one million dollars.

• The Hospitality and Food Service program at the Saginaw Career Complex operates a restaurant that is open to the public, Tuesday through Friday, from 11:30 A.M. to 1:15 P.M. Approximately 60 people eat their lunch at the restaurant on the days the restaurant is open. YUM!

• Delphi Automotive Systems and the Saginaw Career Complex united forces to participate in the FIRST program (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) for the first time in the 2000-2001 school year. Students, guided by engineers from Delphi, built a robot, named "WOOKIE", that competed with other robots at Epcot Center in Florida. WOOKIE and the other team members were just one-tenth of a point from winning the Archimedes "Rookie" Award.

• During the 2001-2002 school year, the FIRST team at the Saginaw Career Complex will assist a new FIRST team at Heritage High School.

• The Saginaw Career Complex, once named the Averill Career Opportunities Center (COC), opened its doors for the first time in the 1971-1972 school year.

• The Saginaw Career Complex has articulation agreements with 5 post-secondary institutions: Delta College, Ferris State University, ITT Technical Institute, Davenport College, and Northwestern College.

• During the 2000-2001 school year, 206 graduating students met the criteria to articulate college credit (earn college credit at the same time they are earning high school credit). This represented 464 classes and 1286 credits, which equals $76,259.80 ($59.30/credit hour) in dollars that could be saved by students who attended the Saginaw Career Complex.

• To ensure the opportunity for real life, work-based experiences for students attending the Saginaw Career Complex, the Complex has formed working relationships with approximately 250 local businesses.

• During the 2000-2001 school year, 84% of the students participated in unpaid and paid work-based learning experiences as part of their programs at the Saginaw Career Complex.

• The Automotive YES program addresses a growing need among automotive dealerships nationwide: a scarcity of qualified entry-level technicians. Automotive YES is designed to develop partnerships between participating dealerships and local educational facilities to prepare young people for challenging, well-paid careers in automotive service. The Saginaw Career Complex is one of eight such facilities, at the high school level, in Michigan.

• MECA (Manufacturing, Engineering, Construction, Automotive Partnership) and MTP (Manufacturing Technology Partnership) are two programs that unite industry and education, at the high school level, to offer work-based learning opportunities to students at the Saginaw Career Complex. These partnerships have been developed to prepare Saginaw County high school students for high-skill, high-wage careers.

• In an effort to "grow their own", Delphi Automotive Systems has started a new program, Delphi Manufacturing Operations Management Program, to train and mentor future plant managers, so as to meet the need for qualified individuals to fill the management positions that exist in the manufacturing industry. Students at the Saginaw Career Complex will be able to gain first-hand experience in all levels of operations as well as in management positions.

• The Teacher Cadet program at the Saginaw Career Complex offers, to students enrolled in the program, the unique experience of working along side an elementary classroom teacher for three days a week during most of the school year.

• There is a real, licensed preschool at the Saginaw Career Complex, which allows students in the Early Childhood Education program an opportunity to work with toddlers on a regular basis as they gain first-hand knowledge about the growth, development, and education of children.

• Students from over 20 different schools attend the Saginaw Career Complex.

• All programs at the Saginaw Career Complex are open to both females and males.

• The Saginaw Career Complex is an authorized testing site for the CENA examination (Certified Evaluated Nurse Assistant).

• Students in the Welding program at the Saginaw Career Complex have an opportunity to be trained to use the optical tracer.

• A fully operating TV studio exists in the Media/Broadcasting program for students to use as they develop their skills in front of the camera and behind the camera, as well as in the control room or in the editing room.