Cape Cod Regional Technical High School, also known as Cape Tech, Cape Cod Tech, Lower Cape Tech, and sometimes abbreviated as CCT, is a public vocational and technical high school located in

Harwich, Massachusetts Harwich ( ) is a New England town on Cape Cod, in Barnstable County in the state of Massachusetts in the United States. At the 2020 census it had a population of 13,440. Harwich experiences a seasonal increase to roughly 37,000. The town is a ...

, United States. Cape Cod Regional Technical High School was founded in 1975. The school accepts students from the towns of Mashpee, Barnstable, Yarmouth, Harwich, Dennis,

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, Brewster, Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet,

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and

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. Cape Cod Tech is located just off Route 6 in Harwich at Exit 82. The school has an approximate enrollment of 650+ students in grades 9–12. The previous school building has been closed and demolished to make way for a new building, which was scheduled to be opened after the 2019–2020 school year, but partially closed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Current building has been operating since.

Sports

Cape Cod Tech is part of the

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and fields many varsity sports. The school's team name is

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and the school's colors are maroon and gold. Cape Tech offers many sports programs. They are football, golf, cheerleading, cross-country, volleyball, boys' soccer, girls' soccer, boys' ice hockey, girls' ice hockey, boys' basketball, girls' basketball, baseball, softball, lacrosse, track and field, and tennis. Cape Cod Tech's ice hockey team began a co-op program with

Cape Cod Academy Cape Cod Academy (CCA) is an independent coed college preparatory school for grades Kindergarten through 12 located in Osterville, Massachusetts. Mission statement "The pursuit of academic excellence and development of life skills in a safe, va ...

in the 2009–2010 season. Cape Cod Tech experienced much success in the early 2000s in football. Under coach David Currid, the football team has participated in Eastern Massachusetts Championship games in 2000 and in 2006. In 2000, they lost to Georgetown. In 2006, the team went 9–1 in the regular season, with the lone loss coming at the hands of Mashpee, 12–0. They then defeated West Roxbury 35–27 in the first round of the playoffs to earn a berth in the Division 3A Super Bowl, where they lost a 7-0 heartbreaker to

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. Year in and year out, the football team competed for the Mayflower Large League title. In 2010, the MIAA voted to end the cooperative football program between

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and Cape Cod Tech, because Cape Cod Tech has enough players to run a football program on its own. Since 2011, the Cape Cod Tech will always play

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on the annual Thanksgiving Day game. In the 2013–2014 boys' hockey season, Cape Cod Tech had much success. Finishing with a record of (15–4–1) .775, Cape Cod Tech/Cape Cod Academy were the number 1 seed in the MIAA South Division 3 Tournament. Although they suffered a loss to Abbington, the Crusaders held their heads up high on their season's accomplishment. The athletic facilities at Cape Cod Tech have not been host to just the school's own activities. In 1988, the

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, of the Cape Cod Baseball League, were founded. From their inception in 1988 until 2005, the Whitecaps played their home games on the grounds of this school. Cape Cod Tech, in conjunction with the Whitecaps, hosted the CCBL All Star Game in 2000. Brewster also managed to win the League Championship that season. In the 2018-19 boys' soccer season, Cape Cod Tech had much success during a season of change, after moving to the Mayflower Small League of the Mayflower Athletic Conference, District D- MIAA, earlier during the 2017–18 season. With a record of (12-7-2), they gave CCT the best soccer season since the championship run of 2000–2003, and the best season with coach Ivan Popov. They won the Mayflower League when they beat Sacred Heart in the first round 3–2, and then beat Nantucket in a quarter final match 2–1. They ended their season with a loss against Atlantis Charter 5–1, but still managed to provide an impressive record for their first Mayflower playoff run, with a record of (9-0-1). Coach Ivan Popov was then named the Mayflower League Coach of the Year, and player Rick Goncalves was named Player of the Year.

Current sports offered

These sports are currently offered at Cape Cod Regional Technical High School as of January 2020. A majority of the sports offered to students at CCT are for both boys and girls, as required by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. * Football *

Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

Lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensiv ...

Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

Track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

Ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice h ...

* Soccer *

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

* Cross-country *

Cheerleading Cheerleading is an activity in which the participants (called cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of encouragement. It can range from chanting slogans to intense physical activity. It can be performed to motivate sports teams, to ente ...

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...

Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

Former sports offered

Rowing Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically ...

(Girls)

Vocational shop programs

Current vocational shops

Cape Cod Tech currently offers 15 shop programs to students, which are as follows: *

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Technology Technology is the application of knowledge to reach practical goals in a specifiable and Reproducibility, reproducible way. The word ''technology'' may also mean the product of such an endeavor. The use of technology is widely prevalent in me ...

* Automotive

* Carpentry *

Cosmetology Cosmetology (from Greek , ''kosmētikos'', "beautifying"; and , '' -logia'') is the study and application of beauty treatment. Branches of specialty include hairstyling, skin care, cosmetics, manicures/ pedicures, non-permanent hair removal such ...

* Culinary Arts *

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Engineering Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...

* Design and Visual Communication *

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Horticulture Horticulture is the branch of agriculture that deals with the art, science, technology, and business of plant cultivation. It includes the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs, sprouts, mushrooms, algae, flowers, seaweeds and no ...

* Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning *

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* Marine Services Technology *

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Former shops

Hotel A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a re ...

, Restaurant, and

Business Management Business administration, also known as business management, is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. From the point of view of managemen ...

, replaced by

. * Distributive Education *

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Technical competitions

Each year, students at Cape Cod Tech have the opportunity to participate in various technical competitions. For example, students in the Horticulture program have the opportunity to participate in

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competitions, and students in the Hotel, Restaurant, and Business Management program may participate in DECA. Students enrolled in all other CCT technical programs may participate in

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which hosts district, state, and national competitions between technical schools for students to show what they have learned. Carol Olsen, a Graphic Arts instructor, organizes Cape Cod Tech's involvement in SkillsUSA.

Renewable energy

Cape Cod Tech offers a recycling program called the "Green Beings", which was started in 2005. The school is also home to a Renewable Energy Center (REC). Construction on the REC building was completed in the spring of 2009, and the grand opening for the facility took place in October 2009.

Radio station

Cape Cod Tech holds the license for a radio station,

WCCT-FM WCCT-FM is a radio station on 90.3 FM in Harwich, Massachusetts, United States. It is the radio station of Cape Cod Regional Technical High School and broadcasts from a transmitter site on the campus. The station has not operated since 2014, when ...

90.3, which broadcast actively from 1989 to 2014. It primarily rebroadcast

WBUR-FM WBUR-FM (90.9 FM) is a public radio station located in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by Boston University. It is the largest of three NPR member stations in Boston, along with WGBH and WUMB-FM and produces several nationally distributed progra ...

in Boston, though it did produce student-run programming for most of its history.

References

External links

Official School Web Site

SkillsUSA Massachusetts
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