Electives Take You Above & Beyond

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?

You have to take a certain number of electives to graduate from high school. Online electives at Sterling Academy give you far more choices. Once you graduate, you’ll have to find a job or begin to choose a college major. What might that be?

WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE?

Taking electives helps you identify what really resonates with you. How do you know engineering (or computer science or international business) isn’t for you, unless you give it a try? Science, technology, engineering and math (often referred to collectively as STEM) are all career fields of the future, and they can lead you in almost any direction.  The health care field is wide open and richly rewarding.  Foreign languages can literally take you around the world.

Our electives allow you to:

• Try your hand at combining traditional art and design techniques with technology tools in digital arts. You can learn to create 3-dimensional models and animations.
• Find out how engineers approach building things, whether it’s a bridge, a car or a better mousetrap. 
• Unleash your inner entrepreneur and give him or her a boost toward success, with a solid foundation in business basics and marketing.
• Study Chinese, or German, or other foreign languages that open doors in today’s global 21st century. Improve your job prospects in today’s global companies, which have branches around the world. Knowing another language gives you the edge in landing a job, because when there is a need abroad, you’ve already studied the necessary language.   
• Learn computer coding. Sterling Academy is one of just 10% of schools that even offer this course. Believe it or not, learning coding can actually be fun, and it’s not just for computer geeks. Try to imagine your life with apps, then consider the fact that every app you use started with code.

You don’t have to adopt one of these fields as a career, but knowing more about a wider range of subjects makes you a more interesting person, and learning how different disciplines approach solving problems will help you in many ways as you go through life. 

PRACTICAL JOB PREPARATION

Classes such as Nursing Assistant and Pharmacy Technician give you a head start on landing a good job after you graduate. These fields can be a very satisfying career, or you can use them as a launching pad to any one of dozens of desirable careers in health care.