This pathway is a gateway to many exciting career opportunities, from ticket

sales and event promotion to event management and working with professional athletes or teams!

Ignite your passion through innovative instruction delivered by seasoned professionals.

As you progress, you'll explore event planning, covering everything from selecting venues and creating budgets to marketing and facilitating events.

By the end of this pathway, you will be well-prepared for college and career success with employability skills woven into every aspect of your learning journey.

Pathway Features

• Collaborative learning

• Hands-on experiences and project-based learning

• Earn Certifications: IAVM
  Certificate of Venue Management Studies

• ACCA Apprenticeship Pathway

Entertainment, Sports, & Event Management Pathway

The Entertainment, Sports, and Event Management pathway is a gateway to many exciting career opportunities, from ticket sales and event promotion to event management and working with professional athletes or teams. This curriculum provides hands-on experiences and project-based learning, allowing you to master software skills recognized throughout the industry. Ignite your passion through innovative instruction delivered by seasoned professionals and collaborative learning experiences. As you progress, you'll explore event planning, covering everything from selecting venues and creating budgets to marketing and facilitating events. By the end of this pathway, you'll be well-prepared for college and career success, with employability skills woven into every aspect of your learning journey. Students in this pathway can earn IAVM Venue Management Studies Certification.

• * High school level pathway offered through Athens Community Career Academy.

• * Available for 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students in Clarke County School District.

Hospitality, Recreation and Tourism Essentials
This course educates students on the basics of marketing and business in relation to the hospitality, recreation, and tourism industry in the U.S. and abroad. Students will study destination geography, world economies, and historical timelines related to major segments of the hospitality industry. Students will determine how the HRT industry uses marketing to achieve goals. The vital roles of group, convention and meeting planning, human relations, communications, and ethics will be examined along with the recreation industry segment.

The Business of Entertainment, Sports and Events Management
Students will focus on the business principles of the sports, entertainment and event management industries. They will be introduced to the variety of career opportunities such as ticket sales, accounting, event promoter, event management or representing a professional athlete or team. Students will develop analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills that industry employers are looking for. Innovative instruction from professionals and collaborative learning will enhance their experience.

Event Planning Operations
The third course in the Entertainment, Sports & Events Management Pathway will expand the student’s knowledge of event planning requirements needed to be successful in the industry. Topics include the fundamentals of event planning; selecting event dates and venues; developing agendas, timelines, budgets, and contracts; marketing events; and facilitating events. Educates students on the basics of event planning the in the sports, entertainment, and meetings industry