Career Ready Pa

What’s So Cool About Manufacturing (WSCM) Video Contest (flyer attached)
We are excited to kick off our 10th Annual WSCM Video Contest for middle school students in grades 6–8. Participating student teams are paired with a local manufacturer to research, interview, and film a two-minute video highlighting the company and its career opportunities. Workforce Solutions provides the video equipment, teacher resources, media training, and editing support. The contest begins this fall and concludes with the Awards Ceremony on March 25, 2027. We are kindly requesting school commitments by September 30, 2026.

Healthcare in Action – Career Exploration and Learning Expo (flyer attached)
Please also save the date for our 2nd Annual Healthcare in Action Expo on November 17, 2026, at The Red Fern in Kersey. This event is designed for students in grades 9–12 and provides hands-on career exploration experiences with approximately 20 local healthcare organizations and community partners. Additional registration and scheduling information will be coming soon.

PA SIX Careers – A Resource for Your Classrooms (flyer attached)
We also want to remind schools about PA SIX Careers, Workforce Solutions' career exploration website focused specifically on opportunities here in North Central PA. This can be a great tool for teachers, counselors, and students throughout the school year.

REMAKE LEARNING DAYS
Remake Learning Days (RLD) is an innovative statewide learning festival held each year from
May 1-23, 2026, that provides hands-on learning experiences for families and youth, fostering a sense of preparedness and a means of introducing learning resources within communities.
Remake Learning Days events are open to the public, and families, schools, and after-school organizations are encouraged to share about the RLD events to their networks. To learn more, see the website: Home - Remake Learning Days.

Career Ready PA Backpack Challenge:
As K-12 students participate in RLD events that are part of the Career Ready PA Backpack Challenge (look for the backpack logo!), the students can earn badges for their career readiness portfolio after they complete PDE's digital artifact survey.

Presentations and related materials from previous sessions can be accessed on the Career Ready PA Coalition Google Share weblink. Related materials are attached for your convenience.

The Career Ready PA liaisons continue to support each of the 10 regions as a point of contact and support for career and workforce readiness opportunities across the state. Their connections are invaluable to create awareness statewide to build career pathways for all learners. To view more information about the Career Ready PA Coalition, resources, and contacts, please view the Coalition website here. Also, the PDE website for Career Ready PA and career readiness resources is located here. Enjoy the latest edition of the Career Connections Summer Newsletter!

Everfi provides​no‑cost, self‑paced digital courses that help students meet Act 158 graduation pathway requirements​, including a five‑course employability credential plus career readiness, financial literacy, and workforce preparation modules. These fit easily into advisory, senior seminar, or individual intervention plans, especially as schedules shift mid-year. For students needing immediate, low‑lift options, these courses offer quick, flexible support.

Help your students build real‑world career skills with two newly updated, no‑cost digital courses designed to fit easily into advisory, CTE, career exploration, or core classes.

· Middle School: Future Goals - A fast-paced, hockey‑themed STEM course that introduces students to exciting real-world careers through engaging, interactive lesson

· High School: Building & Moving - A practical, hands‑on workforce readiness course that helps students explore in‑demand careers in construction, transportation, and the skilled trades.

Elementary Resources

High School Resources

School Code of Conduct Resources for Administration

Health & PE Resources

TARA LAWRENCE

Manufacturing Talent Stream Coordinator

TLAWRENCE@NWIRC.ORG

WHAT IS A STUDENT-RUN MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISE?

SRMEs vary depending on capabilities, curriculum,

faculty, and scheduling at the school, and the needs in

local industry.

• Can be tailored to different school environments
• Traditional high school with elective courses
• CTE program within a high school
• CTE program with multiple sending high schools
• CTE program serving multiple school districts

Career Girls is founded on the dream that every girl around the world has access to diverse and accomplished women role models to learn from their experiences and discover their own path to empowerment. The website features female role models in a variety of career areas, Career Cluster information, resources for college prep, career and major quizzes. Educator resources include guides and resources, empowerment activities, motivational mini-posters (one is pictured below) and resources to help get started. Here is the link Career Girls .

STEM Career Exploration for Middle School

Endeavor is an interactive program designed for exploring STEM careers for middle school students. This STEM curriculum for middle school is built to empower learners with the knowledge they'll need to discover their career pathways. The STEM lesson plans for middle school provided in this course enable learners to engage with interactive content that reinforces key STEM skills while discovering some of the exciting STEM opportunities that await. It starts with a video for the educator that provides guidance on content and implementation.

Teaching Strategies that Promote Science Career Awareness

This monograph shares results of Stelar’s inquiry into teaching strategies that infuse career awareness into science lessons. It identifies four cognitive building blocks of career development and four promising approaches for raising awareness of science careers. It then provides ten replicable teacher practice strategies, with accompanying examples of each. (Middle and High School).

https://www.paahec.org/who-we-serveK-12 - going into High Schools, Search Academy (connect with health providers), AHEC Scholars - current health students

We are proud to announce the "PA Dream Team", an outreach program here to help educators looking to provide students an opportunity to explore future manufacturing careers. They can share information about their role, their career path, fun activities, and all the interesting things about working in the manufacturing world. Register for a classroom visit: PaDreamTeam.com Here is the Dream Team Introduction Video: Dream Team Introduction Video

HOST A WATCH PARTY!

If you are an educator and would like to host a watch party with your students, WQED Future Jobs Working Today will provide a screener in a box (includes popcorn, bottled water, Future Jobs Activity Packet, student certificate, and a Teacher gift!). This is geared toward middle to high school students. https://www.wqed.org/futurejobs/edu-families-students

Free Career Readiness course curriculum that incorporates learning competencies with the three key elements prescribed by the Association for Career & Technical Education (ACTE): • Financial and health literacy • Employability skills • Career pathways (also known as work-based learning). Please use website below to register for the the free curriculum.

McKean, Cameron, Potter, Elk, Jefferson, and Clearfield

Email: kfarbo@riu6.org
Website: https://www.riu6.org/
Location: 270 Mayfield Road, Clarion, PA, USA
Phone: 724-984-1181