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Mission Statement
The Student Innovation Guild is an online virtual internship education platform serving as a solution to solve the awareness gap (student awareness of all of the occupations available to them in all industries), the opportunity gap (equal opportunity for all students regardless of race, gender, age, or economic differences), and the skills gap (unfilled jobs due to an unskilled labor force). Our goal is to create an online platform that will integrate into school curriculum which will enable students and corporations to work together, innovate, discover which careers best suit student abilities before leaving high school, while at the same time providing creative solutions for corporations and an avenue for filling internships and skilled positions.
About This Cause
We are a newly formed 501 (c) (3) in the startup phase, working to construct a website with the sole purpose of helping students find their career passions and helping companies find skilled workers. Building a bridge between students and companies in every industry is our goal. We are in the Seattle Public School system and see first hand the great need for career pathway solutions for all students. Presently the vast majority of American students have no idea what careers exist, what careers suit their natural abilities, and are wasting millions of dollars every year on college degrees they don't use. At the same time millions of skilled jobs are going unfilled in our labor force. According to an article in the Washington Post only 27% of college graduates hold a job related to their major. This is due to lack of career education in public schools. Today, student loans are the single largest debt obligation category in the United States aside from mortgages -- almost$1.3 trillion. These two statistics clearly show that student loans are being wasted, and our solution to this problem is needed now more than ever. Industry trends indicate thatby 2020, there will be 1.4 million computing jobs available, but according toCode.org, colleges will only graduate 400,000 computer science students by 2020. National Federation of Independent Business found that 45% of small businesses reported that they were unable to find qualified applicants to fill job openings in the first quarter of 2017. Retirements and new growth mean 3.5 million new manufacturing jobs will need to be filled by 2025. If present trends hold, as many as 2 million of those jobs are expected to go unfilled. Health care tops every list. The U.S. Department of Labor projects the nation will add 2.4 million new health care jobs between 2016 and 2026. Already demand particularly in rural areas is high, and the situation is expected to worsen as the U.S. population ages and longevity increases. The President recently signed an executive order “The National Council For The American Worker” for the purpose of trying to solve this skills gap. This shows that our national government sees the massive need for solutions to this problem as we do, and proves that the time to create our platform is now. We need help constructing this website either through donation of money to pay coders, or through individuals who have the right coding skills and believe in our mission. The design of this site comes from 2 years experience working with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Blue Origin aerospace, and Group Health where this concept was tested and proven successful through email correspondence between companies and students. We partnered with these organizations pairing doctors, researchers, and engineers with students for a year-long project geared toward mutually beneficial relationships between student and industry professionals. The project grew in size and scope to where it needed more structure only a website can offer. We have a classroom of 25 computers and two new career classes to beta test the concept. The principal of our high school is very supportive and the Career and Technical director for Seattle Public Schools is hoping to implement this district wide as soon as possible. Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center and Blue Origin Aerospace have agreed to continue to be a part of testing, and we have recently spoken with the American Heart Association, and Virginia Cyber Range (cyber security education), both have expressed interest working with us once we get started. The structure is a free non-profit online virtual internship website, integratable into school curriculum that allows corporations in every sector and industry to post projects that high school students can browse, complete, and learn what career paths they ultimately want to follow in a fun interactive way. Employees who work in companies in any industry will be able to post an authentic industry project, outline what format they want it completed in, and explain all the details of their occupation and job description. We will also be able to partner with companies already creating interactive learning tools by linking to their software. An example of this would be in the cyber security sector, we will link to the interactive learning tools that Virginia Cyber Range already offers. These projects will be completed by students giving corporations fresh new ideas, and a direct avenue for recruiting students after high school. Students (who will be kept completely anonymous of age, gender, and race for equality and safety reasons) will have the ability to browse all the corporate projects, learn what jobs exist in the world, find ones they think fit their natural abilities, complete these projects, and ultimately find out what they want to do for their careers before leaving high school. Eventually we will create challenges and competitions in many fields such as for instance a challenge to come up with a solution for soil remediation in polluted areas. Student profiles will be anonymous (identifiable only by a number), however they will be able to complete challenges, competitions, and projects to receive badges that everyone will be able to see. Successes will be celebrated, highlighted, and new company innovations from student input can be highlighted in the media fueling even more motivation. Once students graduate their identity can be revealed, and successful students can be openly celebrated by the public and get recruited, similar to the way talented high school sports stars get recruited by colleges and pro teams. It will be similar to the sports draft only based on intelligence, grit, and technical ability. This project is of high importance not only for Seattle Public Schools, but for all schools, communities, and companies in the U.S. and abroad. It will provide a free platform, integrated into school curriculum, and a launching pad for many other company internship and apprentice programs. In my experience as a CTE (Career and Technical Education) teacher students are very reluctant to enter into after school internships. They have sports, jobs, and homework, not to mention the uncertainty of wasting their time with something they don’t know if they will enjoy. This program will produce direction in students that will motivate and inspire them to move toward meaningful careers. Imagine if you knew during high school what you were passionate about, the direction it would take you, and early on finding great opportunities and like minded people. After finding success we all become more confident, and students need this more than ever in this internet/social media environment. Not only will this help students find their direction, but companies will benefit greatly as well in a stronger workforce, and student generated ideas. This program was founded on the idea that the vast resource of creative student energy could be used to benefit society, which is why we started by partnering with the Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center pairing with doctors and helping them come up with innovative cancer cures. The move to online education programs, online education games, career exploration, and many other tools is about to revolutionize how students learn. The current education system is antiquated, relatively boring for students, has very little room for differentiation of instruction, has its merits, but ultimately needs a positive change that we can offer. Online education will transform the system we currently have, and companies who are investing in this are needed more than ever and stand to benefit in a great number of ways.