STUDENT SHOWCASE PARTICIPANTS
Wine Country Wedding Flowers
Cloverdale High School
Students in Cloverdale High School’s Floral Design Program will create an elegant onsite wedding installation, complete with bouquets, table arrangements, corsages, and a full wedding arch. This hands-on course also teaches the business behind event florals, instilling an understanding of budgets and business planning, and sparking an entrepreneurial mindset.
The Health Hub: Vital Connections, One Beat at a Time
Elsie Allen High School
Elsie Allen High School students will demonstrate essential healthcare skills by taking attendees’ vital signs, including blood pressure, pulse, oxygen saturation, and temperature. Dressed in medical scrubs, they will showcase the practical application of their classroom training in a real-world setting.
Student Street Eats from the Healdsburg High School Food Truck
Healdsburg High School
A dream-team collaboration of Culinary Arts, Automotive, and Construction students are turning an old Grumman service van into a fully functional Healdsburg High Food Truck — combining their skills in cooking, mechanics, and building to create something truly one-of-a-kind. Come check out the progress so far, get a sneak peek of what’s to come, and best of all — sample some of the menu items that will soon make this food truck a local legend!
“Ashokawna Watershed Atlas” & “Your River, Downtown” Projects
Healdsburg High School/Marce Becerra Academy
This interdisciplinary project brings together students from Healdsburg High School and the Marce Becerra Academy, in collaboration with artist Hugh Livingston, to explore and celebrate the Russian River. Through data collection, scientific research, and artistic expression, students create public art installations and a comprehensive watershed atlas to foster environmental awareness and community engagement. Their showcase will feature video displays, science experiments, and artwork representing their findings.
“Taking Care of Business – Every Day”
Montgomery High School
Montgomery High’s business students are ready to impress! See their carefully crafted business plans — complete with savvy financial strategies, sharp budget analyses, and insightful career research. These young entrepreneurs are gaining real-world skills that will set them up to become Sonoma County’s next business leaders!
NASCAR Vehicle
Petaluma High School
Do you have “Built a NASCAR vehicle” on your resume? These students do! Petaluma High School’s automotive students are constructing a fully functional NASCAR show vehicle that you can see in-person. This high-octane project lets them put their engineering, fabrication, and mechanical skills to the test while getting an inside look at the motorsports industry.
Medical Responders MCI Event
Piner High School
After a semester of intense training in CPR, First Aid, Stop the Bleed, and Search & Rescue, Piner High students put their skills to the test in a full-scale mass casualty incident (MCI) drill, where 50 volunteers acted as injured victims! From triage to life-saving care, these future first responders handled it all. Come see them in action at the showcase, where they’ll demonstrate their medical expertise and share how this training has prepared them for real-world emergencies!
Woodworking: Beginner to Furniture
Rancho Cotate High School
Nothing says craftsmanship like fine woodworking! Students in Rancho Cotate High’s woodworking program start with small projects like cutting boards, but soon advance to complex furniture pieces, including cabinets, desks, and epoxy tables. Their showcase will feature finished projects, highlighting artisanship and precision woodworking techniques.
Vows & Vines: Weddings in Wine Country
Rancho Cotate High School
Rancho Cotate High School’s future event professionals are ready to dazzle! These aspiring hospitality and events professionals have crafted stunning event proposals based on client consultations — complete with themes, budgets, and hand-picked venues and vendors. Their final presentations will simulate professional client meetings, demonstrating their ability to plan and execute high-end events.
Nailed It!: Santa Rosa High School Construction
Santa Rosa High School
Students in the Santa Rosa High School Construction program develop hands-on skills in woodworking and construction. Their projects range from small-scale builds to large collaborative metal and woodshop projects. The showcase will feature completed pieces, as well as images and documentation of more extensive construction projects.
Design and Fabricate the Future – Use 3D CAD in Fabrication
Santa Rosa High School
Just like professional 3D fabrication, these Santa Rosa High School Advanced Manufacturing students apply CAD design principles to create innovative products using CNC machining, CNC plasma cutting, and welding. See the blend of art and manufacturing in these students’ 3D CAD designs, including an electric chopper (E-Chopper) and various unique fabrication collaborations.
Picture Perfect Studio Portraits
Sonoma Valley High School
Get ready for a pro studio experience! Photography students at Sonoma Valley High School will set up a professional studio, offering attendees the opportunity to have their portraits taken. Students will demonstrate portrait lighting techniques, live photo editing, and instant printing so you can take it home with you. Plus, grab some props and dive into a photobooth-style shoot with some friends and colleagues! And don’t miss their showcase of stunning student photography work.
Our Spark the Future Classroom Collaborators
Share Your Story!
Petaluma High School
Students from the Trojan Broadcast team are collaborating with CTE Foundation to create a video shown at Spark the Future 2025 showcasing CTE across Sonoma County – all the way from pre-production, filming, interviewing, editing, and more! Then, Trojan Broadcast students want to hear from YOU! Trojan Broadcast students will be roaming the event, interacting with guests such as yourself, and capturing the night on camera.
Forget Me Not – Panther Floral Design
Santa Rosa High School
Stop and smell the flowers – all arranged by students! Santa Rosa High School Floral Design students will be creating the floral arrangements throughout the venue and right on your table! Best of all – you have the opportunity to purchase and go home with the unique and beautiful design!
Vote for your favorite class projects!
At Spark the Future, you have the unique opportunity to purchase tokens and vote for your favorite student projects! Guests can purchase as many tokens and vote as many times as you like. The best part: class grants are increased by $5 per token received!
These incredible students are the future of our workforce, and their passion, creativity, and talent will be on full display at Spark the Future! Join us on April 24, 2025, to celebrate their achievements, connect with tomorrow’s leaders, and see firsthand how career-connected learning is shaping Sonoma County’s future. Get your tickets today!
