从教育到劳动力
jdb电子夺宝官方's Education to Workforce 项目 are aimed at building a pipeline of skilled workers from Kindergarten through career. Our end goal is a resident 劳动力 with the technological capabilities, 创新, 批判性思维, and entrepreneurial skills to participate fully in Maui County's digital economy so that young people have the opportunity to remain or return to the islands to live and work, and businesses have access to the talent they need to grow.
Founded in 1999 as the Women In Technology Project, 在过去的二十年里, this program has grown to include K-12 干教育 项目 for all genders; hands-on, service learning opportunities; job shadowing; mentoring; and internships. It enhances and supports a tech-rich 教育al environment by providing professional development and training for 老师. And it has expanded into early career support with interview coaching, 金融知识, 网络品牌, and professional social media skills for 学生 entering the work world.
自2005年以来, jdb电子夺宝官方's Workforce Development has been a statewide program, serving 学生 and young people across the Hawaiian Islands.
今天, 拥有30多个项目, including initiatives focused specifically on women and girls, as well as culturally appropriate 教育 for Native Hawaiians and other underrepresented groups, jdb电子夺宝官方's Workforce Development division remains focused on parity and the goal of building a skilled 劳动力 that reflects the rich diversity of our state.
STEMworks™
Nationally recognized for its innovative and progressive approach to 干教育, Workforce Development’s flagship program STEMworks empowers 学生 to be fully engaged in today’s tech-driven world.
STEMworks支持科学, 技术, 工程, and math 教育 through a project-based service-learning model, in which 学生 collaborate in using STEM skills and 批判性思维 to solve a problem in their 社区.
In STEMworks labs, 学生 can access 技术 including:
•地理信息系统
•AutoCAD
•编程和游戏
•3D打印
•创意媒体与设计
•虚拟现实
• AI
•工程设计流程
•专业技能发展
In addition to providing cutting-edge 技术 to 老师 and 学生, STEMworks supports various 项目, including teacher training and professional development, 课后浓缩, various original school curricula and learning modules, internships and career 教育, 以及夏威夷STEM会议.
All curricula and programming is designed within the Hawaii Department of Education’s Hā Framework for Native Hawaiian cultural competency, 以及美国.S. Department of Education’s NGSS standards.
Major STEMworks 项目 include:
STEMworks能源™
jdb电子夺宝官方推出了第一部原创作品, place-based clean energy curriculum in the state a decade ago, formerly known as Island Energy Inquiry™. 今天, the K-12 program has trained over 800 老师 on every island in its interactive curricula, with a 90% classroom implementation rates. Teachers have access to energy experts, VR tours of Hawaii’s clean energy sites, and access to a lending library of hands-on student materials.
计算机科学
STEMworks promotes “equity of access” to digital literacy and computer science 教育. In a recent partnership with Code.org, jdb电子夺宝官方 is building teaching capacity throughout Hawaii’s public schools by providing immersive computer science professional development and resources for K-12 grade levels.
Twenty years after it was piloted on Maui, STEMworks has expanded to every island and now serves more than 40,000 学生 and 老师 across 31 schools.
夏威夷STEM会议
每年, 老师, 业内专业人士, and hundreds of 学生 from across the state converge at the Hawaii Convention Center to participate in an elaborate celebration of all things STEM (science, 技术, 工程, 数学). The conference is sponsored by the jdb电子夺宝经济发展局 (jdb电子夺宝官方) STEMworks™ program. In 2020, the Hawaii STEM conference moved to a virtual platform featuring keynote speakers, STEMMY奖项挑战, a hackathon and professional development for both 老师 and 学生.
Ke Alahele教育基金
jdb电子夺宝官方’s Ke Alahele教育基金 supports 干教育 in Maui County by awarding grant money to 老师, 学生, and schools for science and 技术 项目.
成立于2006年, the fund has helped cover costs ranging from travel expenses for 学生 participating in interisland or mainland robotics competitions, to the purchase of a 3D printer for a school Maker program. The average grant is around $3,000.
Supported by individual and corporate donors, Ke Alahele is truly a 社区 investment in the future leadership of Maui County at the grassroots level.
