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Recruiting Tech Talent in High School
Desperate to attract tech-savvy workers, one company is turning to an unlikely talent source: high school.
STEAM Ahead, a four-year program, is set to function as a high school within a high school. Students will get coursework in engineering and the arts in addition to staples like social studies. At STEAM, which stands for science, technology, engineering, arts and math, the students also will interact with local businesses through internships and mentorships.
The initiative illustrates the difficulties that some companies face in their search for job-ready talent in engineering and other tech-heavy fields. Businesses feeling the costs of not being able to staff up projects quickly are willing to experiment and make long-term bets, executives say.
"The business community is stepping up where they’ve never stepped up before because they’re so scared" about the lack of skills, said Edie Fraser, chief executive of STEMconnector, a consortium of companies, universities, and other groups that advocates for STEM—science, technology, engineering and mathematics—education.
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