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South Carolina Business Week
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The mission of South Carolina Business Week is to contribute to the preparation of young adults for the business environment by introducing them to the principles of leadership, teamwork, and the American free enterprise system while promoting self-reliance, individual responsibility, and entrepreneurship.
Youth and Registered Apprenticeships
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Youth Apprenticeship is a highly structured program that may connect to an adult apprenticeship lasting three to four years for students who are age 16 or older. Apprenticeships provide work-based employer training that connects to secondary school. Such programs are enhanced by technical career and technology programs that include a formal written agreement defining specific workplace competencies to be mastered. Students may earn work-based course credit provided district course requirements are met.
Registered Youth Apprenticeships are registered with the federal government through the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training (BAT), US Department of Labor. This program is a highly structured program for students who are 16 years or older and may last from one to six years. The program meets federally approved standards for job duties, related classroom instruction, wages and safety and health conditions and also includes a formal written agreement defining specific workplace competencies. Students may earn work-based course credit provided district course requirements are met.
Internships
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An internship provides a one-on-one relationship for hands-on learning and generally last several months with the student working, paid or unpaid, under the supervision of an employer (mentor). Visit these useful links below.
Work Based Mentoring
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Mentoring links students with professionals in a career field for a certain period of time to help provide students with career guidance.
Cooperative Education
Cooperative education is a structured program that combines related classroom instruction in applied technology career and technology education programs with supervised, paid work experience through written cooperative arrangements between the school and employers. Work periods and school attendance may be on alternate half days, full days or other periods of time. Students may earn work-based course credit provided district course requirements are met. Visit these useful links below.
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Service Learning
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Service Learning connects students with community organizations or service projects. It links schools with their communities by integrating learning with the needs of the community in the areas of education, environment, human needs or public safety. Service Learning promotes both personal and intellectual growth in students, helps them develop civic responsibility, and provides an opportunity for career exploration. Students learn by doing through a clear application of skills and knowledge while helping to meet the needs in the school or greater community. Visit these useful links below:
Job Shadowing
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Shadowing is a one-time educational work-based learning experience, lasting four to eight hours, that introduces a student to a particular job or career by pairing the student with an employee (mentor) of a business, industry or an agency. The student will follow or "shadow" the employee as normal work activities are performed, and will observe, ask questions, and gain firsthand knowledge of the requirements of a career field and of the workplace. Groundhog Job Shadow Month is celebrated each February. A strong emphasis is placed on shadowing during this time. Visit these useful links below.
Career Fairs
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Careerbuilder.com Career fair Information for Employers