The Career exploration and Entrepreneurship Academy at the Michael J. Petrides School engages students in real-world learning and career exploration through hands-on civic engagement experiences, internships, collaborative team projects, leadership training and business simulations. This academy empowers and motivates participants to develop a range of academic, business, technological and professional skills that prepare them for success in post-secondary education, employment and the community. 

Students can be engaged in the following programs

• Work Study Program / Internships
• Teacher Preparation Program / Peer Teaching
• Teen Opportunity Program (TOP)
• Community Affairs Project (CAP)
• Council for Unity
• Co-Op Tech

Students can select the following elective courses

• Tech Crew
• Peer Teaching
• Future Teachers
• Work Study (Cafe)
• Co-Op Tech
• Teen Opportunity Program
• Leadership
• Home Economics
• Sports Management
• Community Affairs Project (CAP)*
• Council for Unity*

* Aligns with more than one Academy