Register for fall classes at Valencia College

There’s still time for new students to apply to Valencia College and enroll in classes for the fall semester. Classes begin Aug. 21.

Valencia College offers a wide variety of associate and bachelor’s degrees and short-term, job-training programs.

New this fall is a bachelor’s degree program in computing technology and software development that concentrates on cloud computing for students interested in the IT field.

The new coursework will give students the background necessary to manage cloud systems. All the courses in this program are offered online.

Also new this year, students can earn nationally recognized certifications in precision optics in a new 15-week optics certification program to meet the growing demand for precision optics and photonics technicians in Central Florida.

The program, which will launch in September, will train students in optics fabrication (making lenses for industrial and military devices, equipment, and systems), optical assembly (assembling lenses and wiring systems), photonics (working with lasers for testing and communication) and fiber optics (assembling cable systems to connect various components).

Classes will be held at the Careers in Industry and Technology building at Valencia’s Osceola Campus, 1800 Denn John Lane, Kissimmee.

Valencia’s Accelerated Skills Training program also launched a 22-week robotics technician training program this year. It features two segments: a 13-week robotics technology program with training that is applicable across multiple manufacturing and logistics sectors, and nine-week specialized robotics program that trains technicians to work in the semiconductor industry.

Classes are held at Valencia’s Advanced Robotic Learning Factory at the Osceola Campus, where students will learn how to assemble and dissemble robots and program autonomous mobile robots.

Valencia offers classes at seven campuses in Orange and Osceola counties: East Campus, located on Econlockhatchee Trail in Orlando; West Campus, on Kirkman Road in Orlando; Winter Park Campus, on Morse Boulevard in Winter Park; Lake Nona Campus, on Narcoossee Road; Osceola Campus, in Kissimmee; Poinciana Campus, on Pleasant Hill Road in Kissimmee; and the Valencia College Downtown Campus, a shared campus with the University of Central Florida.

Admissions information and the online application are available at https://valenciacollege.edu/admissions/apply.php. For more about Valencia’s Accelerated Skills Training program, visit

https://valenciacollege.edu/academics/accelerated-skills-training/index.php.