Welcome to the Whiteside Area Career Center
The Whiteside Area Career Center (WACC) is one of about sixty regional vocational systems in Illinois. The systems were organized in 1986-87 to coordinate and provide regional career and technical programming among its member, collect and report data to the Illinois State Board of Education, act as the flow-through of federal and state resources, and market career and technology education throughout its region.
WACC is governed by a Board of Control comprised of the superintendents from each member school district. At present, sixteen local public school districts and three private schools are members of this cooperative joint agreement.
Career and technical programming is provided at member high schools or at the Whiteside Area Career Center. Occupational clusters include agricultural occupations, business and related occupations, family and consumer sciences, health occupations and industrial/technical occupations.
Our Mission:
WACC Educates Effectively, so
Students Learn Successfully, to
Live Productively
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Latest WACC News
Congratulations to the following students who were named Student of the Month in their program:
Alec Kerchner Forreston High School Auto Service – Conkling
Anthony Martinez Sterling High School Auto Service – Schafer
Austin Dornbush Erie High School Building Trades
Chris Reiners Dixon High School Computer Technology
Jonathan Foster Prophetstown High School Criminal Justice
Eddie Garland Bureau Valley High School Digital Media Arts
Abbie Habben Milledgeville High School Early Childhood Education
Ainon Zenaida Dixon High School Food Service
Lindsey Inskeep Prophetstown High School Allied Health
Cassie Reiley Prophetstown High School Health Occupations
Ryan Beiermann Fulton High School Welding
WACC will be offering Adult CNA classes this spring and summer. The Spring class begins on April 2 and will run from 4:00-8:00 p.m. The summer class will begin on June 11 and will run from 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Cost for the class is $800 and includes book, criminal background check, CPR/First Aide training, and state test fees.
Class size is limited to 10 students.
Call 815-626-5810 to register today!
Congratulations to our Pre-Engineering students who finished third out of 21 teams in a robotics competition this past Saturday! They will now move on to the state competition.
More details to be released soon.
Congratulations to the following students who were named Student of the Month in their program for the month of December: Mike Hussey, Ashton-Franklin Center, Auto Service – Conkling Justin Taylor, Prophetstown, Auto Service – Schafer Jacob Ruchotzke, Morrison , Building … Continue reading →
The Computer Technology Program is very happy to announce that on January 10, 2012 Sauk Valley Community College received word from the Illinois Community College Board of the approval of eight new computer/networking courses and three new computer/networking degrees and … Continue reading →
Directors Message: It’s hard to believe that first semester is gone already and we have entered into 2012. Spring semester is always busy for us at WACC, as we start preparing to exit our current students with as many skills … Continue reading →
The Whiteside Area Career Center’s Building Trades program has been busy rehabbing a home in Rock Falls, IL. This is the second year that they have been rehabbing a homes instead of building new. Below are some photos of the home, which … Continue reading →
For the past few weeks the Comptuer Technlogy class has been busy learning the basics of Visual Basic Programming. For those of you who don’t know, Visual Basic is a programming language and environment developed by Microsoft. Based on the … Continue reading →
