HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Hutchinson Public Schools Board of Education Monday approved six new courses at Hutchinson High School for the 2020-21 school year.
The new courses are:
Printmaking
Child Development III
Trends in Transportation
Graphic Design Project Management
Biotechnical Engineering
Introduction to Engineering
The printmaking course builds on equipment purchased two years ago and would make HHS one of only a few area schools to offer this course. Students will work with a wide range of printmaking methods, including relief, monotype, transfer, silkscreen and basic etching.
The biotechnical engineering course will be for seniors who already have completed anatomy and physiology, human body systems or pharmacology and will draw on diverse fields such as biomedical engineering, biomolecular genetics, bioprocess engineering, agricultural biology or environmental engineering.
Also Monday, the Board approved actions allowing students who have classes that require performance testing in the Hutchinson Career and Technical Education Academy to proceed under strict guidelines. The Board also approved procedures for selling the Building Trades Program house. Construction on the house has been interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
And the Board approved reseeding two of the practice fields at the USD 308 complex. The lone bid was from Turf Solutions of Inman at a cost of $94,265.