Why Golden Strip Career Center
Golden Strip Career Center provides a supportive, small-school environment where students connect deeply with peers sharing similar career interests. Through industry-recognized certifications, students enhance their workforce competitiveness and wage potential. Additionally, the center emphasizes essential soft skills, professional resume building, interview preparation, and real-world networking to ensure students graduate career-ready and confident.
RESOURCE LINKS
Tours can be scheduled upon request.
- Automotive Collision
- Automotive Technology
- Building Construction
- Career Exploratory
- Cosmotology
- Culinary Arts
- Diesel Technology
- Digital Art and Design
- EMS
- Firefighting
- Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning
- Machine Tool Technology
- Mechatronics
- Unmanned Aircraft
- Welding Technology
- 2025 - 71% went on to work in a related field, the military, or to college
- EMT Instructor Mike Chapman, Top 10 Teacher of the Year, Greenville County Schools
- SkillsUSA Student Awards 26-27: 10 Gold, 11 Silver, and 9 Bronze
- Building Construction Instructor Bryan Raeckelboom - SC SkillsUSA Advisor of the Year & SCACTE Teacher of the Year
- Highest Performing Career Center: 2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025, 2025-2026
- Highest Number of WBL Experiences: 1022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025, 2025-2026.
State of the art equipment in each classroom • Wi-Fi Throughout the building • 17 classrooms/shops • 1 auditorium • Conveniently located in the Mauldin area just off Highway 385 • Serves Fountain Inn, Hillcrest, J.L. Mann and Mauldin High Schools
"Our son was interested in pursuing a career as an architect or contractor, so he was in the building construction class. His teacher was top notch - respectful, engaging, knowledgeable, and made learning so enjoyable. Our son left the career center with certifications and real world skills. The career center is such a wonderful program led by exceptional teachers. I would recommend this to any student interested in gaining more insight into different career paths."
– 12th Grade Parent
“As a parent of three teenagers who attended the Golden Strip Career Center, my experience has been nothing short of amazing. I would encourage any parent to allow their child to begin at the career center as early as 9th grade if they have the opportunity. It is a place where students are guided, challenged, and genuinely cared for, and my family is better because of it.”
– Graduate Parent