CAAT is a new Chicago public high school designed and led by the Center for Polytechnical Education, with strong support from private sector technology leaders and entrepreneurs. Students learn through practical, hands-on experience, mentorship and a curriculum infused with 21st century skills and an aptitude to succeed.
Private sector support is key.

Developing the technology talent pipeline for the next decade is critically important to hundreds of Chicago’s technology companies today. More

Accelerated learning methods that propel kids beyond the norm.

Urban public education faces steep challenges, and all too often has fallen short of preparing students for college and career. Our approach recognizes each student will enter school with different levels of experience, motivation and mastery, and that each student requires individualized, target education to bring them well beyond the standards.

Students learn a technical aptitude and entrepreneurial zeal.

The skills and certifications required to excel as a technology worker today are shadows of the ingenuity that will be required when our students eventually enter the workforce. We nurture a technical aptitude, using real world, practical projects that engage students and foster an innovative, entrepreneurial approach to problem solving.

An apprentice to tomorrow’s
innovation.

Information technology is at the heart of innovation in most of the world’s leading industries. Our students interact with hundreds of mentors that show them how to apply information technology solutions to health care, energy, transportation, manufacturing and more than a dozen of Chicagoland’s key industries and economies.