Creating Career Pathways

Creating Career Pathways is an inter district grant that focuses on helping students explore careers through job shadowing, Internships and Industry tours. We have over 70 students from 10 participating districts in the Regional Internship program this year.

Students will be placed in two paid nine week Internship placements over the course of the school year as well as attending monthly after school classes. Students also have the opportunity to participate in Industry tours that are designed to expose students to many different career cluster areas. This year, we are looking to repeat our trip to Broadway from last year, which included seeing a play, as well as the back stage workings of 2 different theaters.

In May 2006 students went to see Bodies: The Exhibition in NYC. Human cadavers have gone through a polymer preservation process enabling them to be displayed for a long term learning opportunity. This trip was so well received that we did it again this November. It is a wonderful learning experience especially for students considering a career in healthcare. We are currently planning trips to explore careers in other cluster areas.