WV Career Collaborative: Building Connections, Building Workforce

Work Based Learning Opportunities (WBL) include field trips, job shadowing, micro internships, internships, co-ops, and externships.

"Students are more interested and engaged in learning after they have spent some time in a job shadow or internship.  They come back into the classroom ready to learn and are more serious students."

This initiative aims to work with employers to develop WBL opportunities and match them with interested students. 

Industry Advisory Boards (IAB) are an important feedback mechanism to inform and modify the curriculum being taught.  This feedback improves the work readiness of graduates, giving industry entry level employees that can be more effective faster.  

This initiative aims to build on already successful advisory board models at Fairmont and Glenville and expand them into other disciplines that don't currently utilize them.

We plan on completing Virtual Reality Job Shadow videos so students can learn about various STEM careers and have a 'day in the life' experience.  This helps students have these experiences in real world situations where they might not be able to go in person and also makes these experiences readily available to a much wider audience.

This initiative is to offer a STEM Entrepreneur Course.  The plan is to offer this free to anyone interested with an option for college credit.