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Full Year Courses

For funding and reporting purposes, students must be registered in a public school in the Bellevue, Issaquah, Lake Washington, Mercer Island, Northshore, Riverview, Snoqualmie Valley school districts. Private and homeschoolers, please register with your local high school and inform them you are doing so to be eligible to apply to WANIC. 

WANIC will begin taking applications for full year 2025-26 February 4, 2025 at 9:00 am. Applications received before April 15, 2025 receive priority. Students will not be enrolled before this date. Lotteries will be run and emails regarding enrollment and waitlist status for full year 2025-26 skill center programs will be sent between April 23 and April 30. After 3:00 pm April 15, Applications will only be accepted for programs with space available. Full year applications close 3:00 PM Tuesday July 15.

If you are registered in the Bellevue School District applying to a skill center program within BSD, please apply to the skill center program in BSD's Synergy when you sign up for your other classes. You do not use the application link above. BSD students: only use the above link if you are applying to a skill center program outside BSD.

If you are registered in the Northshore School District applying to a skill center program within NSD, please complete the NSD Satellite Program Interest Form found here. You do not use the application link above. NSD students: only use the above link if you are applying to a skill center program outside NSD.

Skill Center programs

Priority Application Window is tentatively scheduled to open February 4, 2025 9:00 am and close 3:00 pm April 15, 2025.

Additional Course Info

DIGIPEN INFO SESSION RSVP (click for online form) RSVP for a DigiPen Information Session on the DigiPen Website. Attendance is required prior to enrollment.

Pre-Requisites

These Full-Year Skill Center courses have Pre-Requisites:

All 2nd Year Programs: Successful Completion of the 1st Year Program.

Aviation: Geometry

Baking & Pastry: Foods class

Culinary Arts: Foods or Culinary equivalent

Dental Careers: Biology - Students are required to have successfully completed and passed the course without any adjustments to the standards. Minimum 8th grade reading level ability

DigiPen Video Game Programming Year 1: Algebra 2 completed before enrolling in class

Health Science Careers -Nursing: Biology - Students are required to have successfully completed and passed the course without any adjustments to the standards. Minimum 8th grade reading level ability

Medical Careers: Biology - Students are required to have successfully completed and passed the course without any adjustments to the standards. Minimum 8th grade reading level ability

Sports Medicine: Biology - Students are required to have successfully completed and passed the course without any adjustments to the standards. Minimum 8th grade reading level ability

Program By Locations

Main Campus WANIC Skill Center location at Lake Washington Institute of Technology
  • Aviation Technology STEM
  • Dental Careers
  • Fire & EMS
  • Health Science Careers – Nursing
  • Medical Careers
Main Campus DigiPen Institute of Technology location managed by WANIC
  • DigiPen Art & Animation
  • DigiPen Game Design
  • DigiPen Music & Sound Design
  • DigiPen Video Game Programming
Satellite Campus – Bellevue School District: Bellevue High School
  • Automotive Technology
Satellite Campus – Bellevue School District: Interlake High School
  • Building Industry Technologies Core Plus Construction
  • Maritime Welding – Core Plus
Satellite Campus – Bellevue School District: Newport High School
  • Cisco Networking
  • Culinary Arts
Satellite Campus – Bellevue School District: Sammamish High School
  • Health Science Careers
Satellite Campus – Issaquah School District: Issaquah High School
  • Sport’s Medicine Advanced
Satellite Campus – Northshore School District: Bothell High School
  • Automotive Technology
  • Baking & Pastry
  • Building Industry Technologies Core Plus Construction
Satellite Campus – Northshore School District: Woodinville High School
  • Health Science Careers