Satec at W.A.Porter Collegiate
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Scarborough Academy of Technological, Environmental and Computer Education @ W. A. Porter Collegiate Institute (SATEC) is a secondary school located in Scarborough
Scarborough, Ontario
Scarborough is a dissolved municipality within the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it comprises the eastern part of Toronto. It is bordered on the south by Lake Ontario, on the west by Victoria Park Avenue, on the north by Steeles Avenue East, and on the east by the Rouge River...

, Toronto
Toronto
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, Canada
Canada
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. The school, part of the Toronto District School Board
Toronto District School Board
Toronto District School Board, also known by the acronym TDSB, is the English-language public school board for Toronto, Ontario, Canada...

, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008, coinciding with the PEO
Professional Engineers Ontario
Professional Engineers Ontario, PEO, is the self-regulatory body that governs Ontario's 73,000 professional engineers, and sets standards for and regulates engineering practice in the province. It has a statutory mandate under the Professional Engineers Act of Ontario to protect the public interest...

 Engineering Education Conference of the same year. In 2010, SATEC became a certified, platinum Eco-School of the TDSB.

SATEC is regarded as a magnet school
Magnet school
In education in the United States, magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses or curricula. "Magnet" refers to how the schools draw students from across the normal boundaries defined by authorities as school zones that feed into certain schools.There are magnet schools at the...

 by the school board because of its strong technology program and its policies. It is a CISCO
Cisco
Cisco may refer to:Companies:*Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore...

regional academy with certification in CISCO Networking and A+ Computer Service Technician Certification for the senior program.

SATEC was named “Best For Technology” in 2006 among the secondary schools of Toronto.

SATEC has recently started to offer two Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) programs. They include ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and the Environment. In each program, students are required to complete a set number of courses, including a two-credit co-op course, along with obtaining industry standard certification.

The first graduates from SATEC with the Specialist High Skills Major accreditation will be the Class of 2011.

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