Real-World Learning

Tuesday, June 5, marked the second annual Ideas Day held at Chicago Tech Academy High School.  Students chose gun violence in their community as the topic of their Ideas Day.  The school was [...]

As a leader in Real-World Learning education in Chicago, ChiTech hosted a group of attendees from the Schools That Can Forum.  The annual forum was held in Chicago this year on May 2-3. School [...]

Chicago Tech Academy High School is showing students that there are more career options than they could have imagined. Through a re-imagined partnership with GoGo Air, an in-flight internet [...]

Businesses who fall behind in the post-modern digital Wild West will suffer most of all. That’s where Solstice comes in. The B2B design, strategy and engineering firm helps big-name Fortune 500 [...]

Tax time is upon us. While we dig for our TurboTax passwords and pre-spend our returns, we often do not put much thought into thinking about how we learned the ins and outs of the process. To be [...]

This article originally appeared at Built In Chicago Seniors at at Chicago Tech Academy, a technology-centered high school in Pilsen, aren’t showing up for class this month. Instead, they’re [...]

This article originally appeared at ChicagoInno  For all the conversation about retaining tech talent from local universities, there’s another pool of Chicago talent that is often [...]

ChiTech is about to round out its monthlong senior internship program.  Like any new initiative, year two of the program, which falls under the school’s Real World Learning Programs, had [...]

February 3 — A group of 27 students saw “Hidden Figures” Friday, an opportunity made possible through a generous donation from  Board Chairman, Lance Russell. Director of School Climate and [...]

January 26 — On Monday, January 30th, four Chicago Tech Academy students will kick off our February Senior Internship Month with their first day at DDB, a global advertising agency. These [...]