CPI doesn’t just help students and alumnae, we help our community. Many Pennsylvania businesses and organizations reach out to us to find competent employees. If you are an employer, you can post a job opening on our website. And if you are a job, seeker, check out the current jobs in the following fields: locksmith, CDL driver, carpenter, Wind Technician, Nursing.
Safe2Say Something is a youth violence prevention program. Through the "Safe2Say Something" program students can submit anonymous tips to report a problem. Tips can be reported by downloading the Safe2Say Something app, by phone at 1-844-SAF2SAY or online at https://www.safe2saypa.org/tip/. For more information go to https://www.safe2saypa.org/for-students/.
CPI has partnered with The Safe School Helpline. The Safe School Helpline is for students, parents, staff and community members to anonymously report wrongdoing and illegal activities that will affect schools. You can report information by either calling 1-800-418-6423 ext. 359, text TIPS to 66746, online at safeschoolhelpline.com, or download the free Safe School Helpline app.
By her own account, Denae Taylor was a “pretty good student,” a modest statement for someone normally on the High Honor Roll, always excited to learn, who found school to be easy because she was a fast learner. Yet, while attending Bellefonte Area High School Denae was not certain about a future involving post-secondary education, ultimately choosing CPI because she felt it would give her the necessary skills to obtain a job after high school. She was in the Protective Services program for two years, earning acceptance into the National Technical Honor Society. However, once her new instructor Cheniene Leiter assumed [...]
Randy Haynes, a Bald Eagle Area graduate who completed CPI’s Precision Machine Technology program, was an honors student graduating in the top ten percent of his class. While at CPI, he was a member of the National Technical Honor Society and earned awards for CPI’s Outstanding Student of the Year, Outstanding Cooperative Education Student, Cooperative Education “Recognition for Reliability”, and Precision Machining MVP for the class of 2012. Additionally, he earned a Certificate of Special Merit from The National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS) for obtaining eight NIMS credentials, a CPI record unmatched to this day. After a 9th grade tour [...]
Although he excelled in a traditional classroom setting, when Mathew Wolfe was a teen he became very interested in cars and the hands-on learning that accompanied it. As a Penns Valley student, Wolfe graduated with a 3.7-grade point average and took as many advanced classes as possible. However, as a senior high student he wanted more control of his future courses and decided CPI would be a good fit. His educational career at CPI culminated in winning the Automotive Technology Science Student of the Year recognized by receiving the E. Dale Simpson Award. While in school he worked at Tri-County Toyota [...]
