Bridges Career Academies & Workplace Connection is about our community’s future…helping high school students understand the local career options they have in industries that will need them. Business, college, and high schools come together to jumpstart student’s education down a career path, provide hand-ons opportunities to experience a career, and equip students with the skills needs for a lifetime of success.

The Bridges Career Academies offer students the opportunity to explore a career pathway to prepare for their post-secondary education through programs of study for high school juniors and seniors that are delivered by high school and college faculty with guidance from industry representatives. Students enrolled in the academies take class at their high school and receive high school and college credit.

The Bridges Workplace Connection is a link between education and business providing structure for outcome-based, work-based learning experiences.

Research confirms that a workplace connection creates relevance, guides career and educational goals, and connects regional employers with graduates.

See the difference Bridges could have made in Bill’s life.