Southern Indiana Career and Technical Center to Offer New Cosmetology Program to Students

Background About SICTC

Found on 1901 Lynch Road, Evansville, is one of the many different specialized programs EVSC provides. The Southern Indiana Career and Technical Center allows Junior and Senior high school students to explore a variety of trades. SICTC provides education to Gibson, Posey, the southern half of Spencer, Vanderburgh, and Warrick County. SICTC accepts public, private, charter, and home school students; everyone has the opportunity to participate. Not only does SICTC provide the info to do a job, but they also provide hands-on experience and, depending on the field, can help grant students crucial industry certification.

New Cosmetology Program

SICTC provides trade programs in six career clusters. Now you can look forward to the newest program, cosmetology. Starting Fall 2026, students will have the ability to focus on hair, skin, and nail care. Fittingly with their brand-new pedicure skills, they put their hands to work with hands-on training. Applications for all courses open on November 1st.

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What Do Students Think About SICTC?

Below are two exclusive interviews with SICTC students. Find out word-for-word their opinion on SICTC and the amazing benefits they can offer. Although one interview might help you make a choice a little bit more than the other.

Noah Montgomery - SICTC Senior Advanced Manufacturing

What is your favorite part of the program?

"Just the ability to kind of figure out things for yourself and learn how to learn a lot of skills that you wouldn't typically learn in another school. Like I'm learning about industrial wiring. Programming PLCs and all kinds of cool things, kind of like robots, too."

What connection have you gained from the program?

"Connections well, we do have representatives from colleges, and stuff and different programs reach out and come in and talk to our class about different opportunities and endorsements. For example, pretty early into my junior year, we got the ability to get a really good deal on Snap-on tools with a Snap-on representative. We’ve also gotten like Purdue representatives to come in and talk. Same thing with Vincennes, they’ve come in and talked. And then we’re supposed to be having people come in to talk about an internship opportunity. Which hasn't happened yet, but it should. And with SICTC, you can also have the ability to gain internships, which is you go know during your second half of the school day, and it's a really good opportunity because you just get to work and figure things out with the field that you're gonna presumably go into. And you're going to meet a lot of people, and that I mean you know never burn bridges, so that'll help out a lot for sure."
Just from what you’ve done already, do you feel prepared or feel as though you’ll be prepared for a job after your schooling ends, or do you feel you need to continue your education?

"It depends, I'm kinda in a tricky situation for me because my class it covers material for an industrial maintenance worker. And I'm actually not planning to do that as my future career, but it does provide me a good pathway. And if I did want to do that, it is a very good career to go into. I mean, you can work straight out of the gate; you can get an internship at Toyota. And you get to go to college too, so you work at Toyota full-time while working on college, and you get good money. You can pay off your student debt real quick or any tuition costs. I mean, real fast with that, and it's a really good program, but I plan to do electrical engineering. So, I will need further schooling, but I probably could get an internship straight out of the gate, most likely. Once I’m 18 and outta school."

Do you feel confined to your choice? If you wanted to, could you switch programs or bow out of the program, or do you have the ability to pursue a different path without detriment after school?

"You can easily, like I just said, I mean, I'm not planning to do what I’m doing at SICTC. It provides me a good pathway cause it's similar in the way they both involve electrical theory. But like, it doesn't confine you at all; you can still go. It looks, it'll look great on a college transcript, and their high school transcripts, and college applications and stuff. And I think it's just good to learn skills in life. Like you never know when something might pop up, you might need to know something that you might learn from SICTC. And I mean the odds of that happening aren’t always 100% but either way, I think it's definitely better than just going to school, I’d say, for the other half of the day. Cause it's just a lot more valuable than learning what you could learn from some other elective."

Aiden Hobbs - SICTC Junior Welding

What is your favorite part of the program?
"Well, probably getting to go out there and weld, it’s pretty much like a free time all class period."

What connection have you gained from the program?
"I know a couple kids from Reitz [High School] now. I get to see some old friends."

Just from what you’ve done already, do you feel prepared or feel as though you’ll be prepared for a job after your schooling ends, or do you feel you need to continue your education?
"I think by the time I graduate as a senior, I’ll probably be good to go. Ya."

Do you feel confined to your choice? If you wanted to, could you switch programs or bow out of the program, or do you have the ability to pursue a different path without detriment after school?
"I feel like the first, like, entire grading period that we had all of us had well more than enough time to switch out of our class. So, I don’t think I’m confined. I think it's, I think I’m good."