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system, once it is in place, will reduce our electric Report of the energy consumption by more than 40% and our heat. Cape Cod Regional Technical ing costs by 25-30% each year. This new concept HighSchool District demonstrates Cape Cod Tech's commitment to reduc. g ing annual energy consumption and that we are doing everything we can to reduce our energy costs. The Plumbing program has received a solar thermal system To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the and we have purchased electrical circuits for hands-on Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: activities in physics, principles of technology, and environmental/earth science classes. We have level. Cape Cod Regional Technical High School was oped our curriculum to articulate with Tech Prep established in 1973 as a public technical high school agreements with Cape Cod Community College. that divides student learning time between academic classes and technical training. For the 2005-2006 Our Adult Education program has been school year we had 723 students enrolled in 18 differ- expanded this year and we have added an excellent ent technical fields from our 12 sending towns with an part-time coordinator, Ron Broman, who has made a operating budget of$10,663,682 and over$400,000 in tremendous impact on the quality and quantity in the grant funds. courses we offer. For FY `06 of the 46 courses we offered, we ran a total of 40 courses with approxi. At the end of this year, Superintendent/Director mately 457 adults participating during the Fall of 2005 Timothy Carroll retired after 31 years of working to and Spring of 2006. make Cape Cod Tech the exemplar of technical educa- tion that it is today. William N.Fisher,the Principal of This year 25 seniors of the class of 2007 received Cape Cod Tech and a 27-year veteran administrator at John and Abigail Adams scholarships, we improved Cape Cod Tech, was selected to follow Mr. Carroll as our attendance to 94.6%, we increased our student the new Superintendent and Mr. Leonard Phelan, for- retention and had 44 students participate in our mer Assistant Principal at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional Cooperative Education program. The class of 2006 High School, was appointed as the new Principal to saw 72 of our graduates go out to work, 26 graduates the Principal's position vacated by Mr. Fisher. go on to further education, and 2 graduates join the military. Cape Cod Tech has been able to make significant progress in raising student performance on the MCAS Cape Cod Tech has earned the distinction of (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System) being one of the first four schools in the nation and the and our school again met Adequate Yearly Progress only technical school, to achieve national certification (AYP) with the 2006 MCAS exam. In 2006, 62% of of our school's Senior Project. Graduating seniors our students scored Advanced or Proficient in English, who successfully complete their projects have a Senior compared to 56% in 2005 and 68% of our students Project Certification seal on their transcripts identify- scored Advanced or Proficient in Math, compared to ing students as having met a very rigorous national 55% in 2005. Our technical shops aligned their cur- standard. ricula to meet the standards of the Massachusetts Technical Frameworks. SkillsUSA is a national organization serving sm- dents enrolled in technical programs. This year our Our Renewable Energy program has been sup- students brought home 8 gold, 11 silver, and 7 bronze ported by two grants, one from the National Science medals in the district competition,4 gold,4 silver,and Foundation in coordination with Cape Cod 2 bronze in the state competition, and in the national Community College and one from the Cape Cod competition, we brought home 1 silver in Dental Economic Development Corporation. These grants Assisting and 1 bronze in Marine Technology. and our relationship with the College have provided for training in renewable energy such as solar and Cape Cod Tech provides money saving projects wind power and enabled us to purchase the necessary for our district and community and these projects not hardware such as solar panels,a wind turbine,and bio- only save thousands of dollars, but also provide our diesel fuel system. We have also been able to pur- students with real life work experience in a supervised chase a wind turbine data logger which is connected to setting. For the 2005-2006 school ear, the total esti- the new wind turbine and an internet server system. In mated value of the savings to our sending towns from addition to our renewable energy program, the Cape work completed by Cape Tech's technical shops was Cod Tech School Committee has approved the in excess of$650,000. lease/purchase of the first tri-generation system for energy savings in a public facility in this country. This 130