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Student Success Stories, Partner Stories & Organizational Updates
10,000 Degrees and CTE Foundation Announce Formal Partnership to Support Students’ Higher Education and Career Pathways
10,000 Degrees and Career Technical Education (CTE) Foundation are excited to announce their formal partnership to support students enrolled in a two-year career readiness program. This partnership builds on the two organizations’ long-standing collaboration and shared mission of supporting student success in pursuit of higher education and careers…
Meet Enrique: “My Future’s More Clear To Me Now.”
The fear came first, and Enrique names it without dressing it up. "I didn't know what to do after high school and I got kind of scared, like, what am I going to do, how am I going to make money..."? He was a senior when a presentation came through in the first month of the year….
Meet Paloma: “This Internship Changed My Life.”
Paloma remembers the exact moment, and she remembers what it felt like on her face. "I heard a presentation about internships and I will always remember that presentation because my eyes lit up," she says. "I was like, this is a perfect opportunity." Before that, she was drifting. "I was really lost during high school. I had no clue what I wanted to do when I graduated..."
Meet Jocelyn: “Life Comes Full Circle.”
Last fall, I heard a radio commercial promoting Girls Tinker Academy for middle school kids. What an awesome program, I thought to myself. As a recent high school graduate, I wasn’t eligible to attend. But I was determined to find a way to get involved…
Teacher Externships: Bridging the gap between education and industry
The sun hasn’t yet hit its highest point in the sky as I drive up through the large-scale carport of Virginia Dare Winery (owned by Francis Ford Coppola Winery) on a recent summer day, but it didn’t keep a team of educators from taking advantage of the shade as Miguel Lopez, Director of Bottling and Canning Operations, explains what the facility they were visiting today was all about…
Meet Brian: “I Promised My Parents I’d Build Them a House.”
“I promised my parents that I’d find a way to buy a small property and build them a house,” Brian says. “Hopefully in ten years, I can apply all the skills I’m learning here to do that…”
Meet Kaylie: “A Head Start In My Future Career.”
Lemon tarts. Cream puffs. Gelato. Chocolate mousse. Fruit tarts. Kaylie runs through the list the way anyone describes work they've done enough times to stop counting it. The impressive thing? She is a junior at Cloverdale High School…
Meet Julian: “That’s When I Knew.”
According to him, school wasn't Julian S.’s thing. A framing project outside Healdsburg showed him what was - and he had a job offer two weeks later…
News Release: CTE Foundation to receive $1 million grant to expand North Bay Construction Corps
The Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County has been approved for a $1 million grant from Tipping Point Community, a prominent Bay Area funder that fights poverty in the Bay Area, to support expansion of a successful local youth training program called the North Bay Construction Corps…
Meet Annie: “The Only Girl In Power Mechanics.”
Annie has a look of intense concentration on her face. Peering into the depths of a piece of machinery with the help of a flashlight held by a fellow student, she cranks an unseen part into place, intent on reassembling the four-stroke combustion engine at her work station…