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Product Name
Start Here for a High Tech Career
Project Description
The Start Here for a High Tech Career Project will provide youth ages 16-21 with job readiness training and shadowing opportunities, workplace tours and on-site work experiences at local businesses. This six-week summer program will expose youth to careers in health care, advanced manufacturing, food and agriculture.
Elements of Tiers I-IV of the Building Workplace Competencies Model are incorporated in the program.
Outcome from Using the Product
- Expose youth (ages 16 to 21) to high tech career possibilities in key industry sectors
- Encourage youth (ages 16 to 21) to complete high school and pursue technical training
- Provide work experience and industry recognized credentials to youth (ages 16 to 21)
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“Young adults are interested in specific careers such as teaching, engineering, but they haven’t had the opportunity to be exposed to the strategies that the Finger Lakes Wired initiative focuses on.
Based on the Emerging Worker’s Grant, the Urban League partnered with MCC, RIT and other High Tech employers to design a program that would take minority students and provide them with specific labs in high-tech fields like architecture, engineering, design, printing, mfg, and green industries and provide them with very specific curriculum that is designed to expose them to these fields.” Shelia James, Vice President, Urban League of Rochester
Strategic Outcomes
To be supported by Finger Lakes Wired initiatives
- Increase job growth relative to national average
- Increase average wages relative to national average
- Increase retention of 20-34 age workers
- Adoption of a regional identity resulting in collaborative networking and communication in support of regional economic strategies
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