ALABASTER – With golden tickets in hand, students poured into the auditorium of the Thompson High School Performing Arts Center to accept their certificates, marking them as members of the very first class of the ACS Champions Craft Academy. Students were gifted a golden ticket that gave them permission to leave class and enter the auditorium for a ceremony officially welcoming them as new members of the academy.
“This is a realization of a dream and really a completion of what we call a total school system where every individual matters,” ACS Superintendent Dr. Wayne Vickers said.
The ACS Champions Craft Academy will be housed in the former Winn-Dixie/Restore building on Highway 119, which was acquired by the school system for $1.96 million and has seen significant interior renovations. Previously, the school system was limited to 15 students in its workforce development program which transported students to the Academy of Craft Training in Birmingham which was approximately a 45-minute bus ride from ACS.
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