Charleston County School District, SC Stories of CCSD, 3 May 2017

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From YouTube: CTE Work Based Learning Opportunities - Stories of CCSD

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Work-based learning opportunities, such as apprenticeships and internships, are providing life-changing opportunities for CCSD students. This installment of the Stories of CCSD examines the increase in opportunities, how they benefit the students and their families, and the business community.

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Hello, everybody I'm Andy, Pruitt, Director of Communications and Technology with Charleston County School District, and we are here at Boeing one of the many companies in the area that are partnering with CCSD when it comes to youth, apprenticeships and work based learning internships, and we want to make sure this is one of the opportunities that is highlighted for our students, Michael PI of academic magnet and Abraham Patterson from our B stall, or to about 200 CCSD students participating in apprenticeships or internships in the area.

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This semester, PI and Patterson, are both at Boeing, South, Carolina, loving every minute. It's.

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Definitely surprised me in an amazing way, it's gone way above my expectations, because I've actually had the chance to work in the same environment. That's developers working the.

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We need new things like there's, so many things you can do here. I love it I, love it coming here. Almost every day would like it's great pi.

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Is doing an apprenticeship in computer programming? Obviously the knowledge gains about this career path is beneficial, so are the relationships I've.

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Gotten to talk with so many other employees and come to learn from them and see how they work also and work with them on projects Patterson.

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Is an intern in quality control he's working on the production floor, but this is open his eyes to other opportunities at Boeing and more possibilities for a career. We.

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Had a speaker the other day, and it was a design, Art and Design when she was talking about how she structured the plane, it looked pretty interesting, so I kind of found myself I can probably see myself doing it. Boeing.

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Is in its second year a regional partnership with our district trident Technical College and the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce Garth Cooke, who does strategic Workforce Planning for the aerospace giant, says his company benefits from this experience as well. Well,.

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Either both the high school internships and the youth apprenticeship program, it's really part of our strategic workforce plan to bring in that next generation of workforce and who better to start with in our than our high school kids. We want to make sure that that again, the parents, the students and the guidance counselor's know of those, because, ideally, what that does that create the best talent pool that we can draw from the.

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District's Career and Technology education department, led by executive director, rich Gordon, is doing its part to encourage students to take advantage of these opportunities. In the 2009-2010 school year, 16 percent of CCSD high school students participated in work based learning experiences that would range from apprenticeships and internships to structured field studies and job shadowing. The participation rate was up to 48 percent last year. It's.

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Providing them with not just some of those academic and those technical skills that you learn on the job. It also provides them with some of those soft skills reporting to work on time, effective communication having a supervisor, you know all those things that are you know you may not learn in the math or science class, but those things that make you successful in the real world. All that comes together and a nice package on the workplace, lab Gordon.

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Knows not every student has the same level of access to these opportunities because of location and transportation, so the district's CTE department works hard at addressing those concerns. If we.

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Really truly believe that work based learning and apprenticeship is the way to go. We need to figure out all those logistical barriers and all those those walls that prevent these students from obtaining these experiences, and that's what really my job is to make sure that I can. You know, meet that demand to make it happen. The.

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Benefit of the work based learning experiences continues after high school because they can often create pathways to careers. Steven Madi graduated from West Ashley High School last year, and now he has a full-time position in the city of Charleston information technology department. Thanks to his apprenticeship, any.

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Work experience in my personal opinion is great for a resume. You can never have too much starting out coming out of high school, but working in a field that you're looking into going into. With that experience, it's untouched Maddy.

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Admits it wasn't easy all the time, but the benefits outweigh any challenges or changes he had to make in his schedule really.

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It all starts with you just got to put in the work, if you put in the words you put in the effort anything you put work into or effort into you can achieve former.

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And current students believe the word is out there about these opportunities, it's up to the students to take advantage of them and once.

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You make that effort make that achievement. You'll, never regret it. I. Definitely.

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Believe that the program has taken a really big step since last year, at least now, I noticed that it's on the announcements everywhere, they.

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See other people in these things and they're saying that you know they should get into it too, because you know it would be a great thing to do and experience it's.

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Important to mention students in the Trident region's youth apprenticeship program get a full scholarship for classes at Trident tech thanks to the Charleston Metro Chamber. So when they complete the program, students will have a certificate from the US Department of Labor and credits towards an associate's degree at no cost to the student. This might be the best deal around in secondary education. Really we.

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Work together with them, it's a it's a it's a bonus for them. It's a bonus for us I. Think it's an integral part of our district strategic plan of sending our students, college and career-ready to the next level. It.

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Really helps when the school districts or the state have pre-existing programs that employers just need to really follow the program. We.

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Encourage everyone who sees this video to reach out to our CTE Department, to learn more about this great opportunity for the stories of CCSD I'm Andy Pruitt. Thanks for watching.

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