Partnership

Our annual career day is an opportunity for IA Partners to educate our students and faculty about the future employment opportunities in our community. IA students are eager to learn more about their fields of interest. We want them to learn from the industry leaders, directly. As a part of our career day, we also ask our community partners to host mock job interviews and resume reviews for students.

As you see throughout our opportunities of engagement, we want IA Students connected to our business partners. Each week, IA Partners are engaged with students, faculty, and parents through various speaking engagements. These engagements can include classroom and pathway presentations, roundtables, and panels. We also host larger speaking engagements including our Evenings of Innovation, a “Ted Talk” style presentation for pathway students that is also open and marketed to the community at large.

At IA, our students are engaged in project and design-based learning. These practical learning opportunities require additional support from our community and industry partners. Our IA Partners – experts in their fields – provide instruction, opportunity, materials, and feedback to students and faculty before, during, and after completion of these projects. IA Partners are key in supporting a pathway, classroom, small group, and even individual students as they complete engage in complex problem solving. We also invite our IA Partners to bring project opportunities and ideas to our students! Our project opportunities typically provide a shorter-term commitment of a month or less per project.

As a Junior at IA, students are required to enroll in a research and design course that lasts the entire year. This course requires students to identify a “problem” that they then research and develop a solution for, throughout the school year. IA Partners mentor and support students through this year-long course as well as other long-term research and design projects in which IA students engage. Research and design support provides IA Partners a longer term and more hands on engagement opportunity with IA students and faculty including semester and year-long engagement. IA provides students with the opportunity to enroll in work-based learning courses. It is our IA Partners that provide these employment opportunities. Workplace experience assists students in developing soft-skills and practical application of their classroom knowledge. IA Partners also provide a safe space for students to explore various opportunities in their fields of interest. Our relationships with IA Partners provide opportunities for students to gain real-world experiencees.

Our relationships with IA Partners provide opportunities for students to gain real-world experience in fields of interest through observation and internships. These can be short-term or long-term such as visits to our partners, project observation, or longer-term internships. Our Partners provide opportunities small and large- from single student to groups. IA Partners expand our students’ learning environment o the real world. Our faculty is passionate about continuing their education and bringing exciting knowledge to the classroom. Externships provide for our faculty with opportunities to gain real-world experience in industries connected to their curriculum and pathway. We hope IA Partners will engage with our faculty as well as our students to provide these real-world learning opportunities.

IA provides students with the opportunity to enroll in work-based learning courses. It is our IA Partners that provide these employment opportunities. Workplace experience assists students in developing soft-skills and practical application of their classroom knowledge. IA Partners also provide a safe space for students to explore various opportunities in their fields of interest.