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Preparing Tomorrow’s Future
While many of us are enjoying the slower pace of summer, our education partners are already looking ahead. Across Shawnee and Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma Baptist University is preparing to welcome a new class of students, Gordon Cooper Technology Center is gearing up for another year of workforce training, and our K-12 schools are making plans for another successful school year. They are investing in the next generation long before the first bell rings because they know the future workforce is being developed today.
Preparing tomorrow's workforce isn't the responsibility of our educators alone. It takes a community. Businesses play a vital role in helping students connect what they learn in the classroom with opportunities in the real world. Whether it's hosting an intern, welcoming a student for a job shadow, speaking in a classroom, offering a facility tour, or simply sharing your career journey, those experiences can shape a young person's future in ways we may never fully realize. While we continue working alongside our education partners to better define those opportunities for connection, we'll soon be reaching out to our business community to help identify employers willing to make those commitments. Together, we can build stronger pathways between the classroom and the workplace.
I hope you enjoy the remainder of summer and I encourage you to begin thinking about how your business can help prepare the workforce of tomorrow. Where might you open a door, offer an opportunity, or invest a little of your time in a student? When that invitation comes, I hope you'll consider saying YES. Together, we can help ensure that when students are ready to begin their careers, they'll already see a future for themselves right here in Shawnee and Pottawatomie County.
~Crystal
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