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Career Exploration

To maintain a thriving economy, students need to be prepared for high-demand, well-paying jobs, yet there are currently more jobs than skilled workers to fill them. This series looks at how schools are preparing students for the future workforce.

New courses allow students to earn IT certifications

Career Exploration Erin Albanese
A new program at Wyoming High School offers the opportunity for students to earn credentials in information technology, helping pave the way toward in-demand, high-wage computer jobs...

Demand for pharmacy techs leads to new program

Career Exploration Erin Albanese
Another hybrid session runs April 12 to July 30 and has room for up to 16 students...

Career exploration goes virtual

Career Exploration Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
More than 1,700 students from Kent County and beyond took part in this year’s Groundhog Shadow Day event, the highest attendance ever...

Help wanted: auto mechanics

Career Exploration Erin Albanese
Kent ISD and GRCC programs create a pathway to careers that can pay top technicians anywhere from $80,000 to more than $100,000 per year...

‘Chem-gineering’ unit encourages creativity

Career Exploration Morgan Jarema
Project NEXT students are at it again, learning by doing...

Mental health checks and career exploration find virtual home in school districts

Multi Districts Janice Holst
A tool students can use with their phones is opening doors to careers -- many of them local -- and giving administrators a read on emotional wellness...

Essential workers get high school diplomas thanks to state program

Career Exploration Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
Futures for Frontliners offers free community college tuition to essential workers. The program also helps people earn a high-school GED...

High school career center shifts to project-based learning focus

Career Exploration Morgan Jarema
No more usual, scheduled six-hour school day. Gone are letter grades; instead, concrete standards are detailed on a hybrid transcript...

Virtual career exploration a hit with students

Career Exploration Morgan Jarema
The district helped shape the online program, which is now being used to varying degrees by a handful of area schools...

New academy preps students for hospitality, tourism careers

Career Exploration Phil de Haan
A new academy at Ottawa Hills High School aims to prepare students for good careers in hospitality and tourism...

New program aims to get students to graduation, expand career pathways

Career Exploration Morgan Jarema
Last year the program had 70 students. This year, after restructuring, the program has 135 and counting...

New coordinator will be face of career-work experience effort

Career Exploration Morgan Jarema
Her role includes creating job opportunities, serving as a liaison with businesses and helping students hone skills employers want them to master...

Heavy-metal ready

Career Exploration Erin Albanese
Fourteen students, including several women, graduated from the first cohort of Metallica Scholars, an eight-week welding course...

Students earn credits, gain jobs through GRCC training program

Career Exploration Erin Albanese
After more than 600 hours spent learning to build houses, fix cars, take blood pressure and complete other skills needed for jobs available in West Michigan, 52 students graduated in December from the GRCC Job Training programs...

Educators connect students with workforce opportunities

Career Exploration Erin Albanese
Apprenticeships provide pathways to in-demand, high wage careers, a U.S. Department of Labor representative recently told high school students...

Students tour world of manufacturing

All Districts Linda Odette
Touring several local plants, students learned manufacturing isn’t what it used to be...
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