Making Recruitment Season a CRTC Family Affair

COVID has complicated all our lives, forcing us to find new ways to adapt our old routines, and challenging us to explore new means of connecting and collaborating from a safe social distance. So as the CRTC begins its annual drive to recruit up to 450 new students, we are looking for some help from our CRTC family of students, alumni and their families in spreading the word throughout the nine school districts in our region.

Because we are unable to hold traditional recruitment events, such as assemblies, tours and open houses, we are hoping to partner with our supporters to help take our message viral by spreading the word through their own social media connections. 


Here are three things you can do today to help us out:

  • Visit our Facebook page regularly and share relevant posts with friends, family and neighbors, especially those with freshman and sophomore students

  • Tell your CRTC story in a short text or, better yet, video post on our Friends of the CRTC Facebook page and give us a glimpse into your personal experiences

  • Email David Moore at dmoore@sau8.org and let him know you’d like to have your photo and story included in one of our Compass Magazine issues or recruitment mailings


Recruitment season runs January through February, and targets mainly freshman and sophomore public high school, home schooled and public charter school students. All CRTC students choose to attend our regional Career and Technical Education center, so your help in letting prospective students and their families know what we’re all about will help us to continue to thrive as the region's premiere career connection point for high school students.

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