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Our Team
Our Team We're passionate about what we do. Our growth, progress, and contribution to the improvement of our nation’s educational quality have been the work of a creative, energetic, and responsible team committed to excellence. Join Our Team About Us / Our Team Filter By Full Team Executive Team Finance ...
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Lenovo Scholar Network National Competition Winners, “Fan Favorite” Voting, and 20 New NAF Academies Announced
...along with students’ app creation journey, visit www.lenovoscholars.com or check out the #LenovoScholars hashtag on social media. Quotes: “I am pleased to congratulate this year’s six app competition ...
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Lenovo Scholar Network National Competition Winners,“Fan Favorite” Voting, and 20 New NAF Academies Announced
...us on Facebook or Twitter (@Lenovo) or visit us at www.lenovo.com. About NAF NAF is a national network of education, business, and community leaders who work together to ensure high...
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Education Leaders Praise New Legislation to Support Innovation in Career and Technical Education
...works with school districts in California, Texas, Michigan, and New York. www.connectedcalifornia.org The Linked Learning Alliance is a statewide coalition of education, industry, and community organizations dedicated to improving California’s...
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Partners
[back-to-parent] Partners Leading companies partner with NAF, to build a future ready workforce – aligning their industry expertise, community leadership, and pipeline development needs with NAF’s proven educational design. Structured relationships between NAF academies and corporate partners create a dramatic impact for students beyond what a great school, part-time job, ...
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Celebrating Computer Science Education Week 2016: Investing in Computer Science for All Will Be Key to College and Career Readiness
...develop the pipeline that will determine their company and industry’s futures. NAF’s STEM advisory committee addresses the growing roles that STEM plays in the nation’s economy. The committee ...
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New Haverhill High class tries to lure girls to computer programming
HAVERHILL — When you think of a computer programmer, perhaps what comes to mind is a man sitting at a desk sipping on an energy drink and eating a hot...
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NAF Appoints David L. Steward and Larry Renfro to Board of Directors
...will help further NAF’s commitment to connecting students and the organization to leaders in STEM fields who, above all, bring a strong personal commitment to developing the leaders of tomorrow...
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NAF and Lenovo Announce Winners in Mobile App Competition
...school education, today announced the winners from NAF academies participating in the fourth annual Lenovo Scholar Network National Mobile App Development Competition. The competition and app development program encourages greater...
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NAF and Lenovo Announce Five Winners in Mobile App Competition
...a smarter future where everyone thrives. Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Weibo, or visit us at http://www.lenovo.com/ About NAF NAF, is a national network of education, business, and...
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This school is changing how Valley students learn
...enrolled in Porterville Unified School District — engineering and performing arts. Through these pathways, the school links traditional high school academic requirements with a work-based component. “All of our kids...
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Deer Valley Unified Employees Earn CTE Honors
...school level who have demonstrated innovation in the classroom, commitment to students and dedication to the improvement of CTE in their institutions and communities within the New and Related Services...
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SAP SuccessFactors Pledges $1 for Every Tweet to Help NAF Educate the Workforce of the Future
...or to watch the general sessions, please visit http://www.sapsuccessconnect.com/en_us/las-vegas.html. To register, please visit http://www.sapsuccessconnect.com/en_us/las-vegas/registration-las-vegas.html. Follow ...
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NAF and Lenovo Announce Five Winners in Mobile App Competition
...that will better our schools, communities, and society.” About Lenovo Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is a US$50 billion Fortune Global 500 company, with 63,000 employees and operating in...
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NAF and Lenovo Announce Winners in Nationwide Mobile App Competition
...of the eighth annual Lenovo Scholar Network National Mobile App Development Competition. The app development program encourages greater interest among high school students from under-invested communities in science, technology, engineering,...
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NAF Appoints Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, Robert F. Smith, to Board of Directors
...planet, a smarter economy, a diverse and inclusive community and a broader path to prosperity. Further information is available at www.vistaequitypartners.com. Follow Vista on LinkedIn, @Vista Equity Partners, and on Twitter,&...
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Justin Yancy Named 2021 “Citizen of Excellence” by NAF
...based CEOs and senior business executives who advance a long-term vision of a prosperous Texas in a globally competitive business environment. Website: www.txblc.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/TXBLC ...
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Looking Beyond Free and Reduced-Price Lunch to Drive Positive Change in Education: Meet ODIS, A First-of-its Kind Open Data Resource
...housing, and crime) by combining 17 indicators of quality of life. Users can compare data across individual school communities, the school district, city, county, and state levels for more than...
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Moody’s Corporation Joins NAFTrack Certified Hiring
...recognition that a company grows stronger by helping others, The Moody’s Foundation works to enhance its communities and the lives of its employees by providing grants and engaging in community...
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The STEM Careers Coalition Marks Second Anniversary with Expanded Career Readiness Resources and New Industry Partners Joining National Effort to Improve Student Outcomes
...states, and trusted organizations to empower teachers with leading EdTech solutions that support the success of all learners. Explore the future of education at www.discoveryeducation.com. Contacts Grace Maliska | Discovery Education | gmaliska@discoveryed<...
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Enloe High School duo win nationwide competition by developing app to aid underserved communities
...of Health Sciences. For their sophomore project, the two decided to enter into the seventh annual Lenovo Scholar Network National Mobile App Development Competition. “There were 128 teams, I think, with...
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Collier schools’ internship program provides on-the-job training
...Foundation’s 75 national Community Partners in Attainment. Residents are encouraged to join and support this community-changing initiative. For more information, visit http://www.FutureMakersCoalition.com, call 239-274-5900 ...
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NAF Partners With Code.org to Increase Access to Computer Science
...and increasing participation by young women and learners from other underrepresented groups. Through this partnership, fifteen NAF Information Technology (IT) educators will complete Code.org’s Computer Science Principles Professional Learning Program...
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Lenovo VP David Rabin: “To prevent burnout work how you want to work”
...New York, and then to Detroit at Young & Rubicam, where I worked on the Ford Motor Company account, managing Lincoln’s $100 million national advertising program, as well as competitive...
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Lenovo, NAF, and MIT App Inventor Recognized at the CSforALL Summit 2017
...or visit us at www.lenovo.com. About NAF NAF is a national network of education, business, and community leaders who work together to ensure that high school students are college, career,...
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Following Your Passion — A NAF Alumnus’ Journey To Computer Science
I’ve always worked hard in the classroom and on the field, but it was hard finding the right balance. There was always an assumption—mainly in the black community—that the only option I had to be successful was by running on a track field or throwing a football ...
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Educational Nonprofit NAF Chooses SAP® SuccessFactors® Solutions to Help Drive Student Success
...turn, positively impact the companies and communities where those students will be future employees and leaders. “To close the skills gap and increase academic achievement, especially in underserved communities, it...
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Lenovo Scholar Network Welcomes 68 New Academies Nationwide for the Advancement of STEM Education
...http://lenovoscholars.com/participants/. To learn more about the Lenovo Scholar Network and follow along with students’ app creation journey, visit www.lenovoscholars.com or check out #LenovoScholars on social media. Quotes: “...
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Four Reasons Your Company Should Hire NAF Interns
Hiring interns is a big decision—but hiring the right interns can mean big returns for your business.NAF interns are not your average interns. Thanks to industry-specific courses and professional development activities they experience throughout high school, these interns will add value to your team from day one.Hiring ...
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NAF Event Celebrates NYC Students’ Achievements As They Complete Moody’s Mentoring Program
...for college and career success. The mentoring sessions covered topics that included personal branding; proper communication skills; tips for how to handle communication and feedback; self-advocacy; networking; and mock interviews....
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Ramos: A Pathways success story
...with high schools in high-need communities to enhance school systems by implementing academies — small learning communities within traditional high schools. In Porterville, such academies are available to Porterville Unified...
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D.C. EDUCATION BRIEFS: Dialogues with the Chancellor
Since his appointment, Chancellor Lewis Ferebee has been engaged on topics that matter to DCPS families, students, staff and community members. This summer, Ferebee hosted a series of small “DCPS...
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NAF Chief Executive Officer, JD Hoye, to Join Board of Directors; President, Lisa Dughi, to Lead NAF As Its New CEO
...to pave the way for prosperous futures for our students and communities,” said Dughi. About NAF NAF is a national network of education, business, and community leaders who work together...
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5 Innovative Ways Companies Can Build the Nation’s Future Workforce
...as these same students will be tomorrow’s industry leaders. Skill Development Competitions Since 2014, NAF and corporate partner, Lenovo, have hosted national mobile app development competitions for NAF academies within...
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NFL Announces Eight New Social Justice Grant Recipients
...to social justice organizations. For more information on the joint work between players, teams and the league office on social justice, please visit www.nfl.com/inspirechange. Contact: Kelsey Boyd, Kelsey.boyd@nfl<...
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United Technologies Announces Multimillion Dollar STEM Partnership with NAF
...aerospace industries. By combining a passion for science with precision engineering, the company is creating smart, sustainable solutions the world needs. To learn more about UTC, visit www.utc.com
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Lenovo and NAF Announce 2021 Lenovo Scholar Network “Fan Favorite” Mobile App
...on mental and sexual health resources. The team, comprised of Lydia Owens and Lindsay Templeton, will receive state-of-the-art technology, courtesy of Lenovo. The mobile app competition is part of the...
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STEM Advisory Committee
STEM Advisory Committee Developed to address the growing role that STEM now plays in the nation’s economy, the Committee offers opportunities for top STEM leaders to exchange perspectives to better understand industry talent pipeline needs and attract a diverse population to their businesses. STEM Advisory Committee video-play https://youtu....
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LENOVO SCHOLAR NETWORK: MILESTONES AND MISSION
...the Lenovo Scholar Network, and follow along with students as they develop mobile apps in preparation for the annual national competition, visit www.lenovoscholars.com or check out #LenovoScholars on social media....
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NAF Receives $5.6 Million Grant from Ballmer Group to Expand in Southeast Michigan
...expansion in Southeast Michigan to amplify engagement in the Detroit community. With this support, NAF added 16 new academies, took part in stakeholder cultivation, and created a comprehensive, multi-year implementation...
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Enrollment in career-based high schools grows
...themes; hospitality & tourism is one. “We continue to see growth in both the number of academies and the number of students within those academies,” said Devery. “Since the 2013-...
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Jennings High School’s entire 2017 graduating class bound for college or career
...McDonald’s for some grads, but district administrators said the fast-food chain is a partner and enrolled students into its college scholarship program. One-hundred and sixty students received diplomas this spring...
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6 things to know about virtual internships post-COVID
...seek internships during the 2021-22 school year: 1. Location, location, location. This summer, NAF is helping employers provide work experiences to students in other states. The healthcare company, Optum, for instance,...
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Taking The Lead: What It Really Takes To Build The Workforce Companies Need
...some of America’s top companies to give special consideration to college students and future job applicants who have completed the NAF course of study and graduated high school having earned...
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Creating Promising Career Pathways for Minority High School Students by Partnering with the Business Community
...Could Be. For more, see: Distance Learning: Boosting College-, Career-, and Life- Readiness Work Experiences Are as Important to Career Prep as School Career Academy Giant NAF Gets an Upgrade,...
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Lenovo and NAF Announce 2016 Mobile App Development “Fan Favorites”
...year’s “Fan Favorites.” The mobile app competition is part of the Lenovo Scholar Network, a partnership that the company and NAF created in 2014 to encourage greater interest among underserved...
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Largest Single Lenovo-Hosted Volunteer STEM Event in U.S.
...STEM volunteer event hosted by Lenovo is a shining example of the unstoppable movement that the education and business communities can create when it comes to preparing our students for...
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Largest Single Lenovo-Hosted Volunteer STEM Event in U.S.
...the community. “Today’s STEM volunteer event hosted by Lenovo is a shining example of the unstoppable movement that the education and business communities can create when it comes to preparing...
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NAF Celebrates “The Power of Opportunity” at 16th Annual Benefit
...App Inventor. The initiative features a nationwide mobile app development competition, involving a panel of judges from different sectors and an online “Fan Favorite” component. Participating academies develop apps on...
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Lenovo and NAF Announce 2020 Lenovo Scholar Network “Fan Favorite” Mobile App
...smart devices and infrastructure, we are also leading an Intelligent Transformation – to create better experiences and opportunities for millions of customers around the world. To find out more visit https://www.lenovo.com,...
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Raytheon commits $500 million for social impact initiative
...solving some of society’s biggest challenges. Through focused investments, volunteer commitment, and strategic partnerships, we will create lasting, multi-generational impact in education opportunity, armed services support and local community relief.”...
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Capital One Joins NAFTrack Certified Hiring
...https://naf.org/ About Capital One Capital One Financial Corporation (www.capitalone.com) is a financial holding company whose subsidiaries, which include Capital One, N.A., and Capital One Bank (USA), N.A., had $239.8 ...
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Supporting Robert Smith’s Vision to Advance Social Change
In celebration of National Philanthropy Day 2018, NAF recently spoke with Fund II Foundation’s Executive Director, Linda Wilson, about the vision of American businessman, investor, and philanthropist, Robert Smith, who is President of the Fund II Foundation Board; what drives their mission and purpose; and how they are creating opportunities ...
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NAF Announces the Launch of Their Work-Based Learning (WBL) Impact Program
...have the option to submit one completed WBL activity per term. Submission deadlines are January 22, 2024, for Fall 2023 WBL activities and May 1, 2024, for Spring 2024 WBL...
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Hartford hosts regional robotics competition
HARTFORD — Forty teams from Connecticut and Massachusetts gathered in Hartford this weekend for an annual robotics competition. Hartford Public Schools officials said it was the biggest event in the...
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Olympic Community of Schools Academy of Engineering
Business and community stakeholders gather with educators to collectively address the knowledge and skills gap plaguing America’s workplaces while simultaneously paving clear pathways leading students towards upward economic and social mobility. The academy’s strategic partnerships are seen as a exemplary model for sustainability in the community and served ...
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What’s your major? Some Lexington students will soon declare in high school
...Public Schools, business and industry, community civic organizations and institutions of higher learning committed to transforming high school education. “ On Monday, at Commerce Lexington headquarters, principals from Fayette County’s...
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The Gift of Technology
...of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com. ...
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Lenovo and NAF Announce 2018 Mobile App “Fan Favorite”
...visit us at www.lenovo.com. About NAF NAF, is a national network of education, business, and community leaders who work together to ensure that high school students are college, career, and...
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Lenovo and NAF Announce 2019 Lenovo Scholar Network “Fan Favorite” Mobile App
...an Intelligent Transformation – to create better experiences and opportunities for millions of customers around the world. To find out more visit https://www.lenovo.com, follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram,...
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Thirty-Five New Academies Join NAF’s National Network
...Engineering – Compton, CA (YOP) Cumberland County Schools Fire Academy – Fayetteville, NC (FT) Dominguez High School, Academy of Engineering – Compton, CA (YOP) Douglas Byrd High School, Academy of...
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N.C. students win app development competition
A team of students from Mallard Creek High School, Academy of Engineering, is among the top five winners of the seventh annual Lenovo Scholar Network National Mobile App Development Competition....
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A Business Philanthropist: An Interview with Sanford I. Weill
...companies to tie doing good to doing well on their bottom line? It’s a very good thing, especially at a point in time when people are shooting down companies and...
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Diversity, Inclusion, And NAF
...run better and improve people’s lives. We are committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and moving #BusinessBeyondBias. To learn more, join us at SuccessConnect 2016 and visit www.successfactors.com....
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Capital One Sets New GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for Largest programming lesson with 724 Participants
...sponsor of Techweek’s first-ever Dallas event this year. See a full list of Techweek Dallas events here: http://techweek.com/dallas-schedule/. ### About Capital One Capital One Financial Corporation (www.capitalone.com) is ...
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New Report Shows NAF’s Impact on Graduation Rates
...the full report: https://www.icf.com/perspectives/reports/2017/nafs-impact-on-academic-performance Click here for the infographic: https://naf.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Graduation-Study.pdf About NAF: NAF is a national network of education, business, and community ...
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Lenovo and NAF Announce 2017 “Fan Favorite”
...a family of mobile products like smartphones (including the Motorola brand), tablets and apps. Join us on LinkedIn, follow us on Facebook or Twitter (@Lenovo) or visit us at www.lenovo.com....
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NAF shows higher graduation rates
...able to prosper in the global marketplace. Click here to access the full report: https://www.icf.com/perspectives/reports/2017/nafs-impact-on-academic-performance About NAF: NAF is a national network of education, business, and community leaders ...
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World Wide Technology Joins NAF As a NAFTrack Certified Hiring Partner
...groundbreaking promise by a growing number of top companies to support eventual job applicants who have completed the NAF course of study and graduated from high school, enrolled in college,...
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Capital One’s Bot Camp Equips North Texas Teachers and Students with Cutting Edge Curriculum
...participants show that 91 percent understood Python when they completed the program and 91 percent are interested in learning more about AI. To learn more about Bot Camp, visit https://www.basictrainingai.com/. When...
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Around the World and Back Again: One Alumnus’ Story Comes Full Circle
I was born and raised in South Florida as a first generation American. My parents had emigrated from Haiti so I learned Creole at home while I learned English in school. My older brothers went into the military, and my younger sister became a mother out of high school. My ...
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Engineering students at Hialeah Gardens High School come up with traffic solutions
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Students completing summer internship at Oklahoma City law firm
...field is a profession they want to enter. “We are committed to diversity, and that begins with teaching and recruiting students from diverse backgrounds,” said Timila S. Rother, president and...
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$10B tech company World Wide Technology pledges to support students from NAF academies
...education, business, and community leaders who work with high-need communities to transform the high school experience through an educational design that includes industry-specific curricula, work-based learning experiences, and relationships with...
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How Mobile App Development Brings Creativity to the Classroom and Solutions to Communities
Over the years, NAF students have built incredibly creative apps. Some apps are helpful to tourists, such as an app that brings smart technology to hotel rooms. Other apps provide useful resources for community members, such as Respirate which supplements pulmonary rehabilitation to provide more accessible support to those diagnosed ...
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Real-world lessons can start with high-school internships | Commentary
...to get exposure to different careers. We learned how to write professional emails, how to communicate in an office setting, and how to make connections with coworkers. We listened to...
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Career Academy Giant NAF Gets An Upgrade, Expands Access To Work-Based Learning
...appropriately. Communication: Demonstrates effective verbal communication; constructs effective written communications; listens attentively and observes work environment. Creativity & Innovation: Incorporates creativity and innovation into tasks. Critical Thinking & Problem Solving:...
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Raytheon Technologies Launches $500M, 10-Year Social Impact Initiative
Raytheon Technologies is launching a $500 million, 10-year social impact initiative to address critical societal challenges, especially in underserved communities. The company’s Connect Up corporate responsibility effort expands its legacy of ...
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Transforming Education: An Interview with JD Hoye, President, NAF
...communities to enhance school systems at a low cost by implementing NAF academies – small learning communities within traditional high schools. NAF has grown from one NAF Academy of Finance...
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How learning to serve tourists is shifting careers
...in the last 10 years, tourism leaders have led a concerted push to catapult the industry into a producer of middle- and high-income jobs. In South Florida, where the industry...
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NAF Awards 14 National Scholarships
NAF is thrilled to announce this year’s fourteen scholarship winners! Scholarships were awarded to high school seniors and graduates of NAF academies who plan to enroll full-time in post-secondary education. Approximately $21,000 was available in scholarship funds this year.Thanks to our generous Board of Directors and corporate partners, NAF ...
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Publications
Publications NAF’s publications take an in depth look at some of NAF’s initiatives, showing the power of the NAF design and shedding light on recent stories that can be replicated for success nationwide. NAF publications provide an in depth look into NAF programming and highlight success stories from ...
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Kids learning to code and create at Code Ninjas
...complete and kids come in two days a week for an hour each time. The first year the student learns developing concepts, in year two they’re using a gaming platform...
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Lenovo Employees Give Back During Second Lenovo in the Classroom Day
...us on Facebook or Twitter (@Lenovo) or visit us at www.lenovo.com. About NAF NAF is a national network that brings together the business and education communities to provide high school...
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Young entrepreneur developing website, smartphone app to find lost pets
...It has broadened him to other things as well. It started with a class project, and he took off. He’s a student leader, and he’s ready.” Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/...
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Recapping the Importance of Celebrating and Recognizing National Engineers Week
...coming months and years, as we work together to make this industry the very best it can be and ensure that the next generation will be STEM ready. Glassdoor https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/...
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SAP North America Joins NAFTrack Certified Hiring
...ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 345,000 business and public sector customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com....
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‘Academy’ Model Boosts High School Grad Rate for At-Risk Students, Study Says
...particular, NAF academies have been successful in targeting and supporting at‐risk student populations and providing a pathway for students to be successful.” The entire study can be found here: https://www.icf.com/resources/reports-and-research/2017/nafs-impact-on-academic-performance...
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NAF Appoints Lenovo’s President of North America, Matthew Zielinski, to Board of Directors
...the Corporate Vice President and General Manager, head of worldwide OEM sales at AMD. He was responsible for leading AMD’s end-to-end efforts for all strategic OEMs, as well as global...
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NAF/Capital One Internship Program Produces Winning Ways for Asociar Technician
...We are a vendor neutral company that provides technology integration on multi-vendor platforms in support of business growth by accelerating speed to market. For further information about Asociar, please visit www.asociar1.com....
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Northridge High School STEM Academy Earns Distinguished Honor
...is a national network of education, business, and community leaders who work together to ensure high school students are college, career, and future ready, according to the foundation website www.naf.org....
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NAF Partners with CYBER.ORG To Provide Free Access to High School Cybersecurity Content, Curricula, & Resources
...information security analysts expected each year. The work environments tend to be computer companies, consulting firms, or business and financial companies, with a median annual wage of around $102,600, as...
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NAF Honors and Celebrates Chairman and Founder, Sandy Weill’s 90th Birthday, at 19th Annual Benefit
...contributions, and passion for making our schools, businesses, and communities better places, and for allowing the next generation to prepare to lead and Be Future Ready. Cheers to you, Sandy!”...
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New Third-Party Survey Shows Public Support for Work-Based Learning, Internships, and Future-Ready Skills
...learning, internships, and equipping the next generation with future-ready skills. For the fourth year, NAF, a national education non-profit, which supports high school students’ efforts to be future ready, commissioned...
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Monticello students know their tax stuff
...community in that way,” she said. In 2017, students completed 196 tax returns, and Bahrenburg said they’re on pace to meet their goal of 200 this year. Rosanne Briffa, of...
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20 Tips For Real Life Learning
...Into The Classroom 16. Community Connected Projects. NYC iSchool engages students in projects connected to real community issues and partners. Health Leadership High in Albuquerque surveys community healthcare providers annually ...
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Press Releases
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Get Involved
Get Involved The most amazing fact about the skills gap is that it can be filled. And you can make it happen. Play Video You have the power to prepare future leaders and widen the workforce pipeline with knowledgeable, diverse, and driven talent.There are numerous ways to get involved ...
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NAF & Lenovo: Strengthening the Talent Pipeline
...schools is an investment, not an expense. This is not a giveaway, but it helps to grow your company. NAF and Lenovo come together at a common place, both striving...
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NAF Reaches Major Milestone of Serving Over 100,000 High School Students Across the Nation
...with high-need communities to improve outcomes for students by implementing NAF academies – small learning communities within existing high schools – at a low cost. NAF connects the working world...
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The Case for Starting the STEM Talent Hunt in High School
...of the working world doesn’t just pay dividends for individual companies. It benefits every facet of our local communities from classrooms to boardrooms. Students gain the hard and soft skills...
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Partner Activation
[back-to-parent] Partner Activation Leading companies partner with NAF, aligning their industry expertise, community leadership, and pipeline development needs to transform the high school experience. By working with NAF your company will be at the forefront of workforce development, recruiting diverse talent with a solid foundation in hard and soft skills. ...
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Red Bank Regional Encourages Female Engineers and Coders
...Code.org, just in the state of New Jersey there are 22,365 open computing jobs and only 1,111 computer science graduates, leaving many well-paying jobs unfilled. “I volunteered because I wanted...
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Grand Island High School: Business leaders hear of new academy program
...paid internship, that student who has a paid internship really has a piece of the company. They feel like an employee, they’re learning, they’re growing with the company, and after...
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Schools, businesses can help prepare more young people to enter the workforce
...community should make the development of workforce-ready skills at the high school level an imperative. Companies need employees who can work in teams, function professionally, problem solve and think critically....
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NAF High School Students Participate in Innovation Academy Pilot Designed to Increase High-Quality Work-Based Learning
...college and career readiness skills that employers are seeking (communication, teamwork, leadership, critical thinking, etc.). In turn, young people are also making a positive difference in their communities. Impact &...
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Capital One and NAF Host Future Ready Partnership Celebration To Kick Off North Texas Internship Season
...Services, Capital One and NAF Board Treasurer, addressed NAF students, educators, and the business community as he highlighted the achievements of the North Texas NAF community and spoke about the...
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Preparing for life after high school
...process, equip them to make sound choices for their future. A board of directors comprised of community business leaders partners with HCPS to guide the program and students. All AoF...
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How High Schoolers Can Boost American Business
...earlier. Companies that currently offer high school internships have created reliable talent pipelines. In a recent survey of such companies, 45% of respondents said they were “very likely” or “completely...
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How Business Can Make An Exponential Difference In The Lives Of Students
...challenges that they uncovered were not unique. Funding for opportunities is a common problem. Many companies are either unwilling or unable to provide paid internships for students under the age...
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NAF is providing work-based learning opportunities for Latinx students in Miami
...experienced an unemployment rate during the pandemic of almost 19 percent, compared to the unemployment rate in the white community of 14 percent. This was what NAF aimed to combat...
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Dallas Works Puts Local Youth In Summer Jobs With A Future
...alongside JPMorgan Chase to place 31 interns at companies in high-growth and high-demand sectors. Sixteen of these interns will be placed at startup companies throughout the area. Placing corporate-sponsored interns...
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Creative Strategies for Finding and Creating Internships
...with the local business community, preparing an accurate budget, and crafting an impressive resume and elevator pitch–all critical for the job hunt and interview process. Additionally, she completed internships and...
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Plugged In: Bryan Station students volunteer to help retirees better understand new technology
...really want part of our celebration to be about us as an academy giving back to the community,” said Heather Zoll-Eppley, who is in her sixth year as director. Other...
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Training Tomorrow’s Leaders: High School Team Wins at Capital One/NAF Internship Lab
Twenty students were chosen this summer from the Dallas Independent School District (ISD) to complete a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for career readiness—and it was also the first of its kind. Capital...
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Why Education and Business Should Work Together
...some of America’s top companies give special consideration to college students and future job applicants who have completed the NAF course of study and graduated from high school having earned...
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Chanae Jones: fashion entrepreneur, small business owner, and college student
“I've always been super creative," says Chanae Jones, an Eleanor Roosevelt High School NAF Academy of Finance graduate from Maryland. "I've always wanted to own my own business." Now, Chanae owns and operates Le Strassed Chae, a full-service adornment line created to empower women through henna artistry and handmade jewelry. ...
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Celebrate the 2018 Scholarship Award Recipients With Us!
NAF is thrilled to award 14 national scholarships! Thanks to our generous Board of Directors and corporate partners, NAF has the opportunity to not only help our students be future ready, but to assist in sending some of them to college. NAF knows the fourteen students and one alumnus selected this ...
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Detroit Students Create Puberty App For Peers
DETROIT — Three local Detroit high school students won the Lenovo Scholar Network Competition – an annual competition that awards 6 teams from underserved high school students in Science, Technology,...
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NAF Celebrates More than 30 Years of Hospitality Education
Since 1982, students in high-need communities across the country have been offered unique educational experiences through NAF. NAF gives high school students access to focused learning career training that can...
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NAF Internship Program Launches A New Phase to Involve Local Businesses
...internship programs for their communities’ high school students. School districts and their business advisory board members in the following communities were chosen to participate: Harford County, Maryland Cabarrus County, North...
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Continue Free Lunch, But Let’s Evolve Proxies Driving Education Programs
...everything possible to realize their potential toward great careers and important contributions to community and society. In research terms, we’re working towards a composite index, one that draws from multiple...
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A Maryland Legislative Session Without Gray Blazers: House and Senate Pages to Participate Virtually in 2021
...Others carved out careers in communications or ran for elected office. One just launched a bid for state comptroller. No matter their accolades, none of the past pages experienced what...
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Lancaster High School Academy of Finance earns national honor
...about the bond the academy, high school, and district have with the Lancaster community. “Our business, community and alumni partnership has long recognized that providing our students with meaningful career-based...
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Volunteer Locally
[back-to-parent]VOLUNTEER Locally Local volunteers are able to open countless doors for students who never even knew they existed.When you volunteer locally with NAF academies, your return on investment is high. The majority of NAF students are minorities living below or near the poverty line who don’t have ...
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Queens High School Students Roll Out New Mobile Apps Developed in the Classroom
By: Amy Freeze Students at Grover Cleveland High School of Academy and Information Technology unveiled mobile apps on Thursday that they developed in the classroom. The project combines computer science...
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BREAKING BARRIERS: URSULA BURNS, THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE CEO OF XEROX
...Chief Executive of a Fortune 500 company. Raised in a housing project located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Burns was reminded on a daily basis she had three...
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Mobile app created by North Division students is one of six national winners
...app development class. “Notice our app isn’t the slickest but it came from the heart and is completely original,” said Melissa Menge, Computer Science Instructor. It’s personal for Loyd. “My...
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High School Students Shine at NAF’s 13th Annual Benefit
Education Nonprofit Raises Over $1.7 Million to Support National Mission — NAF Students Network with Business Professionals from America’s Top Companies At the Mandarin Oriental in New York City June...
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NAF Alumna Climbs Ladder of Success
If someone had told me that I would be in front of hundreds of individuals giving a speech in English, 15 years ago I would’ve never believed them.In 2001, my family and I moved to the U.S. from Colombia in search of a better future. I started middle school ...
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High School Confidential
...makes sense because the accountant is the “backbone of the company,” and without them most companies would be unable to function. Another student described accountants as “the police or investigators...
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Flexing those Future Ready Muscles
More than halfway through their Year of Planning (YOP), The Academy of Health Sciences (Sports Medicine) at Long Island City High School, a New York City Community High School that is also a member of the New York City Department of Education Renewal School program, has been hard at work ...
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Over 100 Academies in the NAF Network Reach Model Level for Delivering High-Quality Educational Experiences for High School Students Across the Nation
...it means to be fully committed to our educational design, and their standards are highly demonstrative of the significant impact we can make as a network of education, business, and...
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Miami Sunset’s Academy of Finance blazes trail for students in business
Sometimes high school isn’t just about learning through text books in the classroom, but learning through real life experience. Some of the best teachable moments come from going on field...
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High School Students Shine at NAF’s 14th Annual Benefit
...education, business, and community leaders who work together to ensure that high school students are college, career, and future ready. NAF works with high need communities to transform the high...
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Celebration of Spirit
NAF, a national network of education, business, and community leaders who work together to ensure that high school students are college, career, and future ready, recently held their annual Benefit...
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NAF Internship Program Sees Exponential Growth
...the opportunity to complete a project of value to the host company in a collaborative, group-based experience. Nine FRLs will take place in seven cities across the country between the...
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COPD sufferers can learn how to breathe easier with new app created by NC teens
...Teams from more than 100 NAF academies submitted apps for this year’s competition. Respirate was among six national winners announced in May, leading to the online “Fan Favorite” competition. Respirate...
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Guinness Record: 846 People Learn AI Coding at Capital One Event
...the future leaders of our community, in DFW and elsewhere.” Students were instructed on how to build a Markov Chain Bot that learned to communicate like their favorite celebrity. Then,...
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New gift will help U-M provide opportunities for youth in Detroit
...tuition support and stipends for graduate students at the Ford School who come from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds and are committed to advancing diversity in public policy. “Joan and Sandy Weill...
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NAF Alumna, Ely Hernandez Explores New Frontiers With NASA Internship
Ely Hernandez grew up watching rockets launch into space from her home in Orlando, Florida. She never expected she would one day play a part in getting one of those rockets—and the first woman—to the Moon, but that’s exactly where the proud daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants ...
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Unity, Traditions, & Happiness: Being a First-Generation American of Hispanic Descent
Emely Almendariz is a junior at Long Island City High School Academy of Hospitality and Tourism. Last summer, Emely interned at NAF with the Marketing and Communications team. Although her future is still a blurry image, she knows that she wants the ability to create and focus on a family ...
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International Credit Union Day
Credit unions have been in existence for hundreds of years, and their purpose has always remained the same: To serve people and the communities they live in. Many NAF academies have leveraged local credit unions as an opportunity to put their career skills into practice while providing a service to ...
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National STEM Day
...Honorable Mentions in the “Quality of Graphical User Interface Design” for the national 2018 Lenovo Scholar Network Mobile App Development Competition. Together with Lenovo and MIT, NAF enables the next generation...
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Small Businesses Pave the Way for Supporting Youth
So how does this play into our efforts to prepare youth for the future workforce? How do we ensure that students are exposed to the career opportunities that are most likely to be available to them? How do we ensure that we are building a talent pipeline to local businesses?...
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NAF Receives STEM Grant Funding from the Fund II Foundation
...and community engagement to offer more internship opportunities to African American students. The selected districts have committed to increasing the number of African American students achieving NAFTrack Certification, NAF’s industry-recognized...
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5 Ways Policymakers Can Help Build A Future-Ready Workforce Today
...States, cities, counties, and community groups, such as chambers of commerce, can encourage work-based learning and act as intermediaries to match businesses with local schools. To meet the rising needs...
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A Blind Grandfather Made Ellis Twiggs Want to Study Science to Learn Solutions
Ellis Twiggs, a recent graduate of University City High School and its NAF Academy, plans on attending Western Missouri University in the fall majoring in computer science. He has a...
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Accounting Student Blazes New Trail to UML
...high school. Combine that with the courses she took through an early college program at Northern Essex Community College, and Varona arrived at UML with a 27-credit head start on...
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An Educator’s View: The Next Generation of Health Care Heroes Is Out There. We Must Begin Shaping Them, and High School Is the Place to Start
...Puerto Rico, and the U/S/ Virgin Islands. Eighty-eight percent identify as female and/or Black/Latino, and 67 percent come from underserved communities. Business leaders involved in NAF academies play a pivotal...
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NAF Joins Goalsetter “Drafted” Campaign to Bring Financial Literacy to One Million Black and Brown Youth During Black History Month
...business, and community leaders who work together to ensure high school students are college, career, and future ready. NAF’s educational design is uniquely comprehensive in its approach to education and...
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Stop measuring degrees and start measuring skills
...young talent and a prosperous future. It still surprises most to learn that an increasingly large segment of the nation’s most influential companies, including Tesla, Netflix and Google, do not require...
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Fifty New Academies Join NAF’s National Network
...the culture, that assures the success of the academy and its ability to fulfill its promise to students and the community. Those accepted into YOP gain access to a guided...
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How NAF and American Express Prepare Students for the Future of Work
...compelling business investment There are many benefits for students who engage with the work force while still in high school. In fact, students who combine part-time employment with full-time studies...
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NAF Partners with Machu Picchu Energy To Bring Beverage Entrepreneurship Opportunities to Students
...Good and Do Good energy — Feel Good about what you put into your body. Do Good with a strong social mission helping children. The company is born out of...
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Lee County Schools: Three administrators appointed to new roles
...“By combining these two departments, we can better support our teachers,” Bryan said in a statement. “Right now, nearly one-third of our teachers — about 200 in all — have...
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New administrators flesh out plans to improve New Bedford High
New administrators flesh out plans to improve New Bedford High SouthCoastToday.com “We will be teaching every single student to high expectations and high standards.” The team has been working with...
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Administrators deserve better than just one poverty metric
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Read Vince Gray’s Goodbye Speech
...the District is in the process of establishing an innovative community-based Quality Improvement Network that will allow children and families to benefit from comprehensive child-development and family-support-engagement services. And just...
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Lenovo Scholars Network Mobile App Competition
...stronger passwords to protect their accounts and educates them on what exactly online users face daily. Our program creates a random password, using a combination of numbers, upper- and lower-case...
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Moving from Good to Great
...Inequality, and Public Policy. 4. National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium. (2012). Common Career Technical Core. Silver Spring, MD: Author. Retrieved from: www. careertech.org/sites/default/files/CCTC_ Standards_Formatted_2014.pdf 5....
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Beyond Free or Reduced-Price Lunch: Smarter Tools for Data-Driven Impact
...tools are. The exemplars we built from include: Community wellbeing: https://wellbeingindex.sharecare.com/ Opportunity Index: https://opportunityindex.org/ Kids Count: https://datacenter.kidscount.org/locations Distressed
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Co-Author Luisa Mendoza
...http://linkedin.com/in/luisamendoza , www.globaltourismsports.com , https://luisamendozainspires.com/ , www.ajlreps.com or www.ukonik
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Guiding Young People Not to Colleges or Careers — But to Good Lives
...do after high school. And it’s complicated by common wisdom that advises young people that the path to dreams almost always passes through college—even though only some students make it...
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Ballmer Group Funds NAF’s First Future-Ready Community
...Communities initiative, NAF will expand its footprint by partnering with Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD), School District of the City of Pontiac, Southfield Public School District, and neighboring districts,...
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Helping to Close the Computer Science Education Disparity
...Support for the Computer Science Teachers Association I’ve admired the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) for a long time. It is a community of computer science teachers led ...
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Top Five Mobile Apps Announced in Lenovo National Competition
...all of the positive contributions to come.” About Lenovo Lenovo (SEHK:0992) (Pink Sheets:LNVGY) is a $45 billion global Fortune 500 company and a leader in providing innovative consumer, commercial, and...
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States, districts take the next step in Big Data
...40 countries. The company’s mission is also directly aligned with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [3]’s focus on college- and career-readiness, and personalized learning. (Next page: Common Core data...
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Sharing Student Recruitment Strategies from NAF Academies
...the NAF logo, and pennants, are displayed prominently around the school. Invited participants included, but were not limited to, middle school counselors, administrators, students, families, local community organizations, and Advisory...
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NAF and Lenovo Announce Winners in Nationwide Mobile App Competition
...everywhere. To find out more visit https://www.lenovo.com and read about the latest news via our StoryHub. About NAF NAF is a national network of education, business, and community ...
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What if a High School Diploma Guaranteed a Highly Paid Job?
...By the fall, 27 students out of the graduating class of 35 had gone to college or found jobs, or both. Eleven of them went to work with companies partnered...
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Portman and Kaine to renew push for CTE ahead of State of the Union
...used by today’s industries · CTE-focused professional development for teachers, administrators, and counselors · Recruitment and retention plans to ensure highly effective educators and administrators are in place · CTE...
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Past Events
Past Recordings Sep29 For students Amazon: Preparing Students for Jobs of the Future Coming Soon Sep15 For students Girls Who Code: Hiring Summit Coming Soon Jun16 For educators NAF Research...
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Preparing teachers for career pathways
...and Vela, who said lunchtime and Saturday tutoring sessions are commonplace at the school. “It’s nice to see administrators and teachers working together to be a total support team,” she...
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State superintendent of public education visits Central Valley schools
...high school — college or a career. Following Torlakson’s 9 a.m. visit to Harmony, he, along with school administrators and academy representatives, will discuss the work coming from California academies....
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Meet Our Leadership Fellows
The Leadership Fellows, selected from among the nation’s most recognized professionals in their fields, were provided opportunities to further hone their expertise in enhancing college and career opportunities for high school students in their local communities.The 12-month program also included opportunities to engage with leaders from across the ...
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Welcome to the new school year
...career resources to our students. We are also extremely fortunate to have continued strong relationships with the CommonBond Foundation, La Luz Center, Nuestra Voz, Plein Air, Sonoma Community Center, Sonoma...
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Privacy Policy
...as our service providers to perform functions on our behalf – for example, data analysis firms, customer support specialists, webhosting companies, telemarketing companies and fulfillment companies (e.g., companies that ...
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Why Language Matters and Why It’s Changing: A Tech Perspective
...small step towards a more conscientious world, but the most significant journeys begin with small steps. For more on this topic, please see additional resources below: https://www.theserverside.com/feature/Why-GitHub-renamed-its-master-branch-to-main https://thenewstack.io/words-matter-finally-tech-looks-at-removing-exclusionary-language/ https:/
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The Reinvention of Higher Education
...the administration’s commitment to growth and relationships in the community and throughout the state. “Rowan University is in a very unique situation where we’re in the right place at the...
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More than a letter
SANFORD — The N.C. Department of Public Instruction’s announcement of School Performance Grades Thursday ruffled feathers in school districts across the state, and Lee County educators and administrators were quick...
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Two more PUSD Pathways named as Distinguished Academies
...in visual art and design. The Multimedia and Technology Academy is committed to developing competitive leaders in the world of multimedia and technology using linked learning opportunities with local business...
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DC high school immerses students in rigorous, hands-on career education
...communities. She also suggests overall college debt would be lower if students were exposed to high-quality CTE programs in middle and high schools. As an administrator, Teyibo says she’s inspired by the...
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Pathways Academies coming to Gridley High
...and year-long classes including: Principles of Information Technology, Graphic Design, Introduction to Computer Programming, Computer Technology and Repair, Digital Photography, ROP Digital Video Production and Multi-media and 3D Animation. The...
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Community Leaders
Support Your Community Everyone has the power to open doors for students. Play Video The NAF Advantage The strength of our communities depends on our commitment to education. The students sitting in high school classrooms across the country are our future, but unfortunately, many students don’t have access to ...
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Communities Develop Their Future Workforce Through NAF Academies
...students in underserved communities,” said Greg Hayes, UTC Chairman and CEO. “These academies will expose generations of students in Puerto Rico to STEM classes, mentorships and company internships, bringing to...
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Changes to NAFTrack
...Certification by the completion of a fixed set of school-centered activities did not sufficiently account for the multiple ways in which districts, academies, businesses, and community partners work together to...
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2024 Alumni Award Winner, Shatiek Gatlin, On Having a Competitive Advantage With NAF
...about this idea of having a competitive advantage — something that sets a company apart from its peers and contributes to its success. NAF has been my competitive advantage. Today,...
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Women Business Leaders Share Career Advice for Young Women
Women have made incredible strides in business in the last few decades, but there’s a whole lot of progress left to be made. In 2018, women accounted for 47% of the U.S. labor force—but less than 5% of chief executive positions in Fortune 500 companies.1 This Women’s History Month, we ...
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The STEM Careers Coalition Marks Second Anniversary with Expanded Career Readiness Resources and New Industry Partners Joining National Effort to Improve Student Outcomes
...STEM Careers Channel. For more information about Discovery Education’s digital resources and professional learning services, visit www.discoveryeducation.com, and stay connected with Discovery Education on social media through Twitter and LinkedIn.&...
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Expanding Access to Computer Science Education at Audubon HS
...Training, Cybersecurity, and AP Computer Science Principles. Our students gain experience in computational thinking practices and problem solving, collaborating to create meaningful change in their communities and career-related competencies. This...
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New name and investment to foster entrepreneurship
...by the Citi Foundation. The rebranding coupled with recent innovations including NAFTrack Certified Hiring – a commitment of eleven leading companies to give special hiring consideration to NAFTrack Certified graduates...
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Honoring Black History Month by Celebrating Black STEM Leaders with Career Readiness Resources for Students from the STEM Careers Coalition
...organizations to empower teachers with leading EdTech solutions that support the success of all learners. Explore the future of education at www.discoveryeducation.com. Contacts Grace Maliska | Discovery Education | gmaliska@discoveryed.com...
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Encouraging STEM Education Through Volunteerism
...currently the largest Engineering Advisory Committee sponsored by N.A.F. in the U.S. The AOE Advisory Committee hosts a 9-month calendar of activities, providing committee members many options to become involved...
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Education Leaders
Achieve Educational Excellence School districts partner with NAF to improve student outcomes in a cost-effective and highly impactful way. Play Video The NAF Advantage The NAF network serves more than 112,000 students in 605 NAF academies across 35 states, plus DC, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. This vast national community includes ...
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NAF Celebrates 35 Years of Partnership with American Express at 18th Annual Benefit
...the way and inspiring other companies to provide access to opportunity for students while gaining a competitive edge in shaping their pipelines — here’s to another 35+ years!” “We are...
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Carencro High academy chosen national technology competition
...a national mobile application development competition designed to pique students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and math careers while preparing them for the workforce. As part of the competition, students...
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Survey of Harvard Business Alums Reveals Anxiety About U.S. Competitiveness
...K-12 education system, which contributes to the country’s competitive position as it prepares students who will enter the workforce. U.S. competitiveness depends upon the ability of American companies to win...
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Alumni Award Winner Mohamed Jalloh On the Importance of Community
...just about taking classes and getting good grades. It is about building a supportive community that will help you in school and beyond. As I started to learn how important...
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Lenovo and the National Academy Foundation Announce Academies Selected to the Lenovo Scholar Network
...work with MIT App Inventor.” About Lenovo Lenovo (0992.HK) (Pink Sheets:LNVGY) is a US$39 billion personal technology company, the largest PC company in the world, serving customers in more than...
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Options in Education
...are expected to have a computer with Internet access, basic computer skills and the ability to complete their work on time. Alumni of this program report that not only did...
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NU Hosting 775 High School Students for Day of Professional Workshops
...skills learned during the workshops. This marks the third time Niagara University has held the daylong program. Find a Niagara University campus map at www.niagara.edu/campus-map/. – See more at: http://www.wnypapers....
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Crunching the numbers with CSM’s dual enrollment
...For information on requirements and deadline to enroll, visit www.csmd.edu/Admissions/DualEnrollment.htmlor contact a CSM enrollment advisor at 301-934-7765 or 301-934-2251. For information on admission options for high school students, visit
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NAF Appoints Vice Chair – Talent and Culture at KPMG U.S., Sandy Torchia, to Board of Directors
...Our people share a sense of purpose in the work we do, and a strong commitment to community service, inclusion and diversity and eradicating childhood illiteracy. Learn more at www.kpmg....
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CUMBERLAND COUNTY TECH STUDENTS REFURBISH, GIVEAWAY 500 COMPUTERS
...junior. “They were told they were getting a free computer, so it was very emotional, and it was just great to see that we’re doing something in the community.” “If...
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Celebrating Computer Science Education Week (#CSEdWeek)
...each year is filled with events and activities to engage students in computer science activities. From December 6-12, 2021, in partnership with Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and SAP, NAF will participate in...
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Wish Book: Tech-talented teen could use helping hand to reach his goals
...41444 ▪ For information, call 305-376-2906 or email wishbook@MiamiHerald.com ▪ Most requested items: laptops and tablets for school, furniture, accessible vans Read more at Miami Herald.com/wishbook Read more here: http://www.miamiherald<...
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Lenovo and NAF Announce 2022 Lenovo Scholar Network “Fan Favorite” Mobile App
...and educates them on what exactly online users face daily. The program creates a random password, using a combination of numbers, upper- and lower-case letters, and special characters. The mobile...
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Hartford School Gets Federal Honor For ‘Green’ Efforts
...the school basement; using compost to create a bird habitat; and building numerous community gardens, school administrators said. The school also offers an environmental science course for college credit through...
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Birmingham City Schools Interim Superintendent Dr. Spencer Horn to receive national honor for his work in advancing student careers
...to the Academies of Birmingham coordinators, teachers, administrators, parents and students for understanding “we must approach education in a different way.” “We understand there is a clear divide between students...
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Southern HS students take part in program to prepare students for future
...help make you better so you can sell yourself to the company.” For Murphy, finance and the love of money came young. “(I) always got money for good grades, always...
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Schools snapshot: 800 more students, 221 new teachers, 27K bus miles a day
...wants the meals, regardless of status, because of a grant the system received. Carpenter said another comment she heard from the community had to do with the increase in students...
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Certifying Career Readiness
Certifying Career Readiness Human Resource Executive Online Administrators at the National Academy Foundation, a network of career-themed academies that aims to connect underserved high school students to viable careers, recently...
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Summer was Time TO Learn Tech Skills at FIU Training Academy
...as dynamic partnerships and collaborations between schools, teachers, administrators, business volunteers and an active advisory board led by industry and higher education professionals. Academy students complement their core academic studies...
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Hartford Students Take Whirlwind Tour Of London, Paris
...while Travelers, the school’s chief corporate sponsor, covered the rest of the travel costs, school administrators said. The group returns Saturday night. Patrick Kinney, an executive vice president for Travelers,...
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A.J. Moore Free Tax Service Going Strong at University High
...their busiest day. “Even though we closed the doors at 8 p.m., we chose to stay and continue to finish taxes for every single person who had come,” said junior...
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Mock Interviews With Corporate Executives Part Of A Day’s Work At Hartford’s High School Inc.
...off your book bag,” said Helen Fazzina, Webster’s vice president of commercial real estate. Ahmetovic slipped off his backpack, and when asked about experience, talked briefly of the time he...
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Sanford students using the summer to get involved in the city
...of people don’t think of teens as contributors to Sanford’s community, or any community in general, and I really want to question why not?” said Amelia Green, a senior at...
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STEM
Be STEM Ready Fill out the form below to receive information about NAF’s commitment to STEM and how you can get involved. Play Video STEM WORKERS EARN AS MUCH AS 26% MORE THAN OTHERS AND COMMAND HIGHER SALARIES. EMPLOYMENT IN STEM IS PROJECTED TO GROW 17% BETWEEN 2012-2022. THERE WILL BE 9 ...
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Three Ways To Inspire High School Students to Explore STEM
As STEM-related industries continue to grow, education and business must continue to prepare high school students to meet the demands of this ever-evolving job market.Fortunately, you can help! Professionals in STEM have the power to open doors for high school students and develop the next generation of STEM leaders. ...
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NAF Next FAQ
...business partners, district administrators, and anyone committed to ensure our students and businesses are future ready. Where will NAF Next 2020 be held? NAF Next 2020 is a completely virtual...
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Meet the NAF Next 2020 Award Winners
Each year, NAF network members achieve remarkable things, and NAF Next is our opportunity to recognize and celebrate the talent, effort, and dedication that transforms students’ lives.Advisory Board Champion AwardThis award recognizes those who have exercised extraordinary leadership in ensuring that all NAF students have the opportunity to ...
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NAF Next Award Winners
...this award was designed to recognize companies that help NAF scale internship opportunities by providing a large number of internships within their own company. In addition, the honoree is a...
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Carencro High again places in state technology competition
...second in the competition. The team won first place last year, and was second in 2013. This year’s competition was held at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. The competition...
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Voc-Ed Makes A Comeback
...gaining favor under a new name: career and technical education (CTE). This comeback is taking place at community colleges and high schools alike. Businesses themselves also have gotten in on...
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The Perfect Storm: A Focus on Students’ Future
...youth in their community, but now those youth can contribute to the talent and economies of their community, which is sorely lacking in many of these contexts. Thousands of jobs...
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Corporations commit to NAFTrack Certified Hiring credential
...and in the years to come.” Imani Blackmon, who recently graduated from Magruder High School Academy of Finance in Rockville, MD was thrilled with the announcement saying “NAF illuminates the...
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ODIS Version 1.0 Is Now Live!
...limitations impact communities espouses that anyone doing community impact work or research should keep an open mind to potential limitations in community data and that data describing a community is...
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Lisa Dughi Of NAF: Five Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became A CEO
...aspect of running a company tends to be most underestimated? Can you explain or give an example? The most underestimated component of leading anything is the complexity of the human...
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5 High School Teams Win Mobile App Competition
Five high school student teams have won the inaugural Lenovo Scholar Network Mobile App Competition. The teams were among 10 finalists that competed to create their apps, beginning in July...
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Lee superintendent highlights ‘value-added’ to students’ education at community meeting
SANFORD — The Lee County Schools superintendent highlighted district-wide efforts to ensure all students graduate high school with more than a diploma during the first of seven community meetings at...
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Meet ODIS! A Smarter Tool for Understanding What Data Can Teach About the Challenges and Barriers Facing School Communities
...need, it does not provide a complete picture of the challenges and barriers facing students in their school communities. NAF is proud to update progress on the creation of the...
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Courtyard by Marriott Partners with National Academy Foundation to Launch Success for Youth Program
...38 states, including D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In 2014, NAF academies reported 97% of seniors graduated. Logo – http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20141006/150429 To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire
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Courtyard by Marriott Partners with National Academy Foundation to Launch Success for Youth Program
...38 states, including D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In 2014, NAF academies reported 97% of seniors graduated. Logo – http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20141006/150429 To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire
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Better communication, test scores top new BOE members’ to-do lists
Improved test scores, programs and communication are just some of the changes that the new Lee County Board of Education members want to make during their terms after being sworn...
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Carencro High students enter national app competition
...10 schools across the country to participate in the Lenovo Scholar Network. The program is a partnership between Lenovo, a technology and computing company, and the National Academy Foundation. Because...
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Representative Thomas Albert, Michigan House Appropriations Committee Chair, Named 2022 “Citizen of Excellence” by NAF
(Dallas, TX – July 11, 2022) NAF, a national non-profit organization, is proud to announce that Representative Thomas Albert, Michigan House Appropriations Committee Chair, has been named their 2022 Citizen...
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Guest opinion: Career-focused education is vital to the sustainable future of our community
...School. As a NAF student, I was taught by exceptional educators in a small learning community that connected my education to real-world career options. Through NAF, I toured companies like...
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Open Data Index for Schools (ODIS)
...into a spectrum of community barriers facing 23,000+ high schools across the United States. How You Can Use ODIS to Help Students Succeed ODIS enables users to examine the community...
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Preparing California’s students for careers requires connecting classrooms to employers
...world’s largest aerospace and defense company, with a campus in El Segundo, is one of the businesses that illustrates the impact of this approach. The company needs high-tech professionals to accomplish its...
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Data Index Tool Offers Glimpse at School Success Boundaries
...while higher numbers indicate a greater amount of community stress. A composite total is given to each district that combines all of the data sources. The ODIS composite = ⅕...
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Interview with Sandy Weill
...up a conversation to talk about the institutions coming together. It’s a perfect marriage between Cornell’s strength in education and the Technion’s translation of that education into new companies. It...
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Northport AOF Alumnus and NSMB President named one of Long Island’s “30 Under 30” Young Professionals
...contributions to their businesses, the greater business community, as well as their community at large. Nolan is currently a full time student at Suffolk Community College majoring in marketing with...
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NBA Foundation Announces Second Grant Round Totaling More Than $3 Million to Support Black Economic Empowerment
...and the NBA Foundation will work strategically to develop additional funding sources. To learn more about the NBA Foundation or apply for a grant, please visit www.nbafoundation.com. # # #...
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Welcome to 2023, NAF network!
...and researchers can come together to use community data to make smart decisions about effective community intervention and impact. That’s why NAF, together with the NYU Marron Institute of Urban...
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Spotlight On NAF Next 2024 Student Speaker: Wilmar Gálvez Alfonso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiumX9UGhEI&t=17s My name is Wilmar Gálvez Alfonso, and I’m a recent graduate of the NAF Academy of Engineering at Benito Cerezo Vázquez ...
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DC high school students participate in culinary competition
Previously published on FOX 5 DC. Students from several D.C. high schools competed in a recent culinary competition where they were asked to create three-course meals in under an hour....
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Silver Spring students in national mobile app contest
...from high school, according to the foundation. At Springbrook, students in the Academy of Information Technology can take courses in computer applications, computer assisted drafting, computer maintenance, digital art, programming,...
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Fort Lee students keep their eyes on academic prize
...connects local businesses. “We have over 200 members and we work hard to help each other to make business good,” Chairman of the Community Relations Committee for the Fort Lee...
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Estudiantes de escuela superior del programa NAF viven una experiencia espacial con Collins Aerospace
Los estudiantes becados empezaron en junio y desarrollaron competencias a través de proyectos asignados durante este verano Los estudiantes becados de NAF empezaron en junio y desarrollaron competencias a través...
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Closing the Latino Education Gap
...company would care enough about these communities,” Yrizarry says. Education of Hispanic youths represents a priority for GE’s Hispanic Forum, too. Last year, 3,500 U.S. members held 55 events, with...
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College, career, and future-ready with NAF virtual internships
...programs to students in high-need communities, preparing our workforce of the future for careers in growing industries, such as information technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krJEnbcR-Tk&feature=emb_logo This year, ...
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Learn Robotics Brings Creativity, Innovation, and Fun to NAF Classrooms
Learn Robotics is an education technology company, made up of robotics engineers, industry professionals, and educators, designed to help individuals structure, innovate, and advance their robotics education journey. Their unique...
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“Linked Learning” presentation done at Port Hueneme Chamber of Commerce
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The Pursuit of Pathways: Combining Rigorous Academics with Career Training
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Hartford superintendent: Businesses need to teach schools
...out career-or college-ready pupils, particularly as Greater Hartford companies face an increasingly graying workforce that will need to be replaced in the coming years. The top three focuses should be...
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New Britain Community Turns To Students For Tax Help
When Josh Rivera, 17, walks the halls of New Britain high school with his football teammates, they aren’t just talking about practice. This season, they’re talking tax returns. Read more...
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Common Ground: Magnet school making students more career-ready
...says. Business and entrepreneurship students will compete in “Shark Tank”-like competition — they won last year — and help develop mobile apps for Microbusiness Enterprise Corp. of Ascension, where they...
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3 Engineering Careers to Consider this National Engineers Week
Engineers are constantly innovating and providing solutions to both big and small challenges all around us. From designing the roads we travel on every day, to testing spacecrafts, and creating the latest technologies, engineers make a huge impact on the world.Engineers have a bright future ahead. The U.S. ...
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NAF Alumna, Carmen Bermudez Comes Full Circle as Future Ready Lab Mentor
...lead the program, but when she discovered that was the case, her NAF journey started coming full circle. As one of the Verizon co-leads for the Future Ready Lab, Carmen...
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“Role Based Access” is coming to ASH
...But managing student and academy data across our national network can be a complicated setting. Operationally, districts, schools, and even different academies within a school can work differently, making our...
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DC Culinary Competition: Student chefs show off cooking skills
Deanna Mozee and Mahmadul Hasan, student chefs at Roosevelt High School’s NAF Academy of Culinary Arts, joined Fox 5 Washington DC to show off their culinary creations....
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Forest Hill Community High unveils new tech lab, preparing students for future careers
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Julie Kennedy earns 2023 NAF Alumni Award for overcoming obstacles, giving back to community
...a big part in helping students from under-served communities gain a foothold in today’s competitive job market. After graduation, things didn’t go exactly as planned. Julie developed Crohne’s disease in...
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NAF Academies of Engineering Win Puerto Rico FIRST® Robotics Competition Championship!
...FIRST® teams in 8 states, who competed in the 2023-24 FIRST® Robotics competitions, including the winners of the Puerto Rico FIRST® Championship: NAF Academies of Engineering at Escuela Benito Cerezo...
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La joven Wilmar A. Gálvez Alfonso quiere ser la primera puertorriqueña en ir al espacio
...a cabo en Kissimmee, Florida. El Adoquín tuvo la oportunidad de entrevistar vía telefónica a Wilmar, cuyos sueños de infancia se están haciendo realidad. Durante su discurso, Wilmar, compartió cómo
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NAFTrack Students’ Back-To-School Glow Up is Coming
...information to help them visualize what they’ve accomplished so far, and plan for what’s next in their journey ahead. 4. Students take control of their experiences, completing WBL Reflection Forms,...
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America’s Secret Weapons – Cyber Warriors In Training
...in the regional round of the competition which takes place on January 16- 18. In all, 2,175 teams registered to compete in Cyber Patriot with 48 teams from New Jersey....
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...the Website, including, but not limited to, text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, video clips, data compilations, code and software, and any combinations or compilation thereof (collectively, the...
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Creating A Future-Ready World One High School Student At A Time
...the willingness to be “all-in” when it comes to pledging your commitment and being ready to join a team of committed and caring leaders who band together to make the...
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Robert Morgan receives nation’s highest honor for career academies
...Community Newspapers has you covered. For more information, be sure to check out: https://communitynewspapers.com. If you have any questions, feel free to email Michael@communitynewspapers.com or Grant@communitynewspapers....
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Juniper OpenLab and Verizon Foundation Touch Students Lives Via Mentoring Program
...this program with other business partners, Passione said. Both companies said the program had worked out well because the students had had a chance to meet with company representatives several...
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Facing cuts? Ask a local business for help
...Schools in 2011 launched Career Academies in its high schools under NAF’s umbrella. Each has a 15- to 30-person advisory board comprising business and community leaders, representatives of higher education,...
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NAF Next Agenda Day 2
...EDT Break 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT Learning Sessions Block C Students As Creators of Their Futures - Post COVID-19 Presenter: Naomi Harm, CEO of Innovative Educator Consulting, Cave Creek, Arizona...
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The Importance of Allyship to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access
...my classroom, at my school, at my company, in our community, and this world. As a young man, I’m sure there were others in my community who were okay with...
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IHS academies open path to engineering, IT
...approach using data basics and networking a with the business community as the advisory committee. He said the course will give students a broad exposure to computer science. The academy...
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The School That Will Get You a Job
...“Believe me, not everyone in a company can do that.” The curriculum also emphasizes the soft skills of presentation, self-marketing and communication that better-off kids–raised in homes with college graduates...
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Detroit Teens Design App, Win $750 and a Professional Pitch
...learned to build mobile apps to help their communities. Photo credit: NAF Two Detroit teenagers bested nearly 50 of their peers in a mobile app competition, winning $750 and the...
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Charlotte Students’ Mobile Applications Among Nation’s Best
...enable them to become the next generation of developers and innovators.” Katya Lezin is a freelance writer. Have a story idea for Katya? Email her atbowserwoof@mindspring.com. Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver....
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Bishop Ward, a Catholic high school, survives and thrives in KCK
...in economic theory and finance,” he said, “in order for my retirement to go well.” To reach Joe Robertson, call 816-234-4789 or send email to jrobertson@kcstar.com. Read more here: http://www.kansascity<...
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NAF Academy now open to DHS freshmen
...provides pathways for scholarships and gives students opportunities to earn valuable credentials. For more information, visit www.dcsedu.com or contact Gandy at the high school at (334) 289-0294 for more information...
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School Bell: Deer Valley singers play to standing ovation
...scholarship — in a competition that combines written and visual works. Entries may be a poem, essay, short story or the like, while visual pieces can include video, photographs, music,...
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Chalkboard: The week in Omaha-area school news
...Dec. 30 at 7 p.m. at St. Leo Church. Expect a variety of musical selections from alumni including internationally acclaimed composer of liturgical music the Rev. Bob Dufford, flutist Amy...
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Fort Lee High School’s Academy of Finance receives award
...in courses like “Business in a Global Economy” and “Advanced Finance” in addition to the regular common core classes and are required to complete a 200-hour summer internship. The four-year...
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National award-winning Washington High School showcase work at iFair
...and several new students from Washington being ready to create a new variety of applications next semester for including in the Lenovo Scholar Network program.” – See more at: http://www.spanishjournal.com/2015/11/national-award-winning-washington-high-school-showcase-work-at-ifair/#sthash.MZGHIbn1.dpuf...
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Congratulations to the 2018 Lenovo Scholar Network Honorable Mentions + Top 50 Apps
...https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4GNZXC6ISHPOWz-5M35kVKUuBkbgpwT- Top 50 Apps #MeToo Enloe High School, Academy of Health Sciences Raleigh, North Carolina A Health Life 2.0 Lee County High School, Academy of Engineering Leesburg, Georgia AOFEZAPP Academy...
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NAF Next Agenda Day 1
...ways to be innovative and impactful. 12:15pm - 12:30pm EDT Transition 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT Learning Sessions Block A Essential Components of an Impactful NAF Team-Based Summer Internship Presenters: Barry...
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Hartford Healthcare Sponsors Allied Health Pathway at Hartford Public High School
...complementing classroom instruction with work-based learning (e.g., internships, job shadowing) and a work readiness curriculum. The combination presents a practical approach to learning in ways that afford students a range...
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A+ Teacher: Making sure her students are ‘future ready’
By Erica Riggins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgRhgDSR2G4 Jeanna Dauphinee runs the Academy of Finance and Entrepreneurship at Brandon High School. She spends her days making sure her students are “future ready,” leading ...
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The Power of Opening Doors: Reflecting on Black History Month
...communities they live in. I’m proud to say my career journey has taken me to NAF, so that I can pay it forward like the many mentors I’ve had over...
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Pratt & Whitney NAF Program with Local Students
...summer with P&W NAF Program Brittany Williams, a Senior at Hartford Public High School spent one summer with the P&W NAF program and will do another summer with them. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/139<...
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Brown delivers: PUSD Pathways Director wins national award
...which is a national gathering of educators, and business and community leaders. The Janet Linton Leadership award recognizes outstanding academy directors and educational leaders who have impacted student achievement. Brown...
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NAF Student and Featured Speaker Alessio Sincore on How NAF Changed His Life
...founding his own LLC. Take a moment to see how being a part of a NAF academy guided Alessio’s decision to become an entrepreneur and be future ready below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E8...
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CYBER.org & NAF partnership expands cyber literacy for high schools
...the classroom.https://player.hbmp.mediafuse.com/prebid/iframe.html?adid=1122701aa4fefc4db&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.securitymagazine.com With the field of cybersecurity constantly evolving and cybersecurity curricula frequently requiring ...
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The Wait Is Over…KnoPro is here!
...leaders, receive expert feedback from industry mentors, grow their professional skills, and compete to win large cash prizes, scholarships, and more! KnoPro’s goal is to enable students, with support from...
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Career-Focused Mentoring in Schools: The Impact of Relationships on Students
If you gathered a group of cross-sector professionals and asked for the keys to their successes, there would almost certainly be one common thread: MENTORS who have supported and guided...
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201 Academies in the NAF Network Reach Katherine Blasik Distinguished Level – NAF’s Highest Level of Achievement
...roster for the first time! Your hard work, strong commitment, and proven contributions to student success are an outstanding example to the rest of the NAF network. We applaud you...
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Free summer camp, adult enrichment program available for Detroiters
...world’s best universities,” Mayor Mike Duggan said. “[And] adults in our community will also be introduced to enrichment courses as part of Saturdays in the D’s commitment to provide our...
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2023 Alumni Award Winner, Connor Nolan, on the Power of Opportunity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S_5zFME13k&list=PL4GNZXC6ISHOShquBDaoDBHU3AUhhKfL9&index=13 Connor Nolan’s award presentation is from 0:00 to 9:54. Hello, NAF Nation! I want to thank you all for being here ...
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Innovation and Products
...students to engage with career-connected learning within NAF Academies and beyond. KnoPro Only 2% of high school students in the U.S. complete an internship before going off to college or...
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Revolutionizing Work-Based Learning: KnoPro, A New Digital Tool, Expands Access and Opportunity for High School Students
...monthly competitions where students can participate on a team or solo—in school or out! —where big money is on the line, just by helping solve a pressing industry or community...
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How NAF is Celebrating Black History Month
...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQbl6-nhPME Importance of Diversity in STEM NAF’s collaboration with companies, like RTX, supports our goal of building diverse and inclusive talent pipelines. Together, we unveiled ...
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10th Annual M-DCPS MEGA NAF Student Conference Recap: More than 1,800 Students Prepare to Be Future Ready!
Last month, more than 1,800 students participated in the 10th annual Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) MEGA NAF Student Conference! This annual conference features a college and career fair, employers...
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2024 Alumni Award Winner, Zoe Roberts, On the Power of Tenacity and Poise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8csuTeFYp0 The last time I was at NAF Next, I had helped plan it as a student in the NAF Academy of Hospitality and Tourism at what is now Jackson-Reed...
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2024 Alumni Award Winner, Sandra Lopez Rivera, On the Importance of Inclusion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvPYS8TN-Kw&t=12s It is an honor to receive this award. I’m here as a NAF alumna from the New Britain High School Academy of Business and Finance, ...
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Introducing the Next Generation: NAF Biomedical Academy at Juanita Sanchez Life Science Institute Prepares to Launch for the 2024-25 School Year + A Special Look at the Future Gen Cancer Scholar Program
...oncologic and hematologic diseases through direct patient interactions, offering a deep understanding of disease management and patient care. Comprehensive Medical Education The program’s curriculum is comprehensive, encompassing various aspects of...
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Policy
...September 20, 2023 NAF Comments to the President’s Advisory Commission on Advancing Equity, Excellence and Economic Opportunity for Hispanics, July 21, 2023 NAF Comments to NYC Mayor Eric Adams on...
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NFL awards 2 new grants in social justice initiative
...work of our Inspire Change grant partners has a tremendous impact on communities across the country,” said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. “Each of these organizations has worked to reduce barriers...
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NAF Celebrates World Engineering Day by Announcing New Partnership with DiscoverE
...imagination, teamwork, and altruism in coming up with solutions that ensure that our future cities are more inclusive and sustainable for generations to come.” The Future City Competition reinforces the...
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Monmouth County students earn national recognition for cyber defense
...students, competing in three separate teams, competed in CyberPatriot’s National Youth Cyber Defense Competition at National Harbor, Maryland in March after earning a spot in the national competition ...
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AT&T STEM Initiatives Help NJ Students Innovate, Learn About Tech Careers
...semifinalists gave 5-minute presentations of their ideas at the competition, and the grand prize was a new smartphone. During the event, AT&T volunteers — members of Community NETwork of New...
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Let Practice Drive Policies!
...to prioritize common planning time for teachers and cohorting students to help to address this design challenge. Integration cannot be adequately addressed after schedules have been created. Common planning time...
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Locally-Sponsored NAF Future Ready Labs Expands for Second Year of Its Pilot Program
...partners to plan and implement meaningful internship programs for their communities’ high school students. School districts and their employer partner members in the following communities were chosen to participate: Returning:...
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NAFTrack Changes FAQ
...and competencies. Certification will evolve to focus on practical skills that are meaningful on the journey to work. Instead of requiring completion of four courses and a paid 120-hour internship...
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Alumni Award Winner Kartik Tyagi on Advocating for Healthcare and Health Sciences Education
...a more holistic outlook to both individual and community health has always driven my passion for healthcare — enabling me to realize that health is about a whole lot more than...
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Creating Change Together: NAF Students & Business Leaders in Dallas
Town Hall: Racism Beyond Criminal Injustice, organized by Verizon, featured the voices of NAF students and business professionals from the Dallas Community.Adam Koeppe, Senior Vice-President, Technology Strategy and Planning at Verizon; Namita Tirath, Executive Vice-President at Pyramid Consulting Inc.; and Andrella Thomas, Diversity & Inclusion Leader at Capital ...
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Increasing Local Impact: KPMG NAF Employee Champion, Jocelyn Denalsky, Shares Her NAF Journey in Hartford
...home. “Hartford is a challenging environment, especially during COVID-19, with schools being shut down and students being sent home,” said Denalsky. “ Hartford is trying to revitalize the community by...
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Next Generation of Tax Preparers in Action: Spotlight on Monticello High School, Academy of Finance
...back to their community by preparing tax returns – free of charge. They have not only provided an essential service, especially during these last few years of the pandemic, but...
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Here’s why Raytheon is investing more jobs in north Texas
...classes. Raytheon Intelligence and Space has its eye on the prize when it comes to hiring more employees, and for the company, the prize is located in north Texas. The...
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Take STEM From the Classroom to the Boardroom
...with high schools in high-need communities to create “NAF Academies” — small, learning communities housed within the schools. RoboRAVE hosts a robotics competition that reaches more than 1,500 students in...
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Technical Education, STEM and Embracing On-the-Job Learning
...into a classroom someday and not be able to tell if it’s a technical course or an academic course.” The companies that rely on technical schools and community colleges for...
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NAF Seniors Leverage Academy Experience to Help Others
...with using the design thinking process to identify problems communities face in combating climate change and providing solutions that not only help communities reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also have...
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Grant Contest to Aid High Schools Still Work in Progress
Proponents of better aligning high school improvement, postsecondary education, and the workforce have high hopes for President Barack Obama’s recent proposal to create a Race to the Top-style competitive-grant program...
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NAF Alumnus Daniel Ansher on the Idea of “Why?”
"I graduated from Thomas S. Wootton High School in 2013 located in Montgomery County, Maryland. During my time at Wootton, I participated in the NAF Academy of Information Technology (AOIT). An AOIT teacher gave an introduction lecture about the technology track during a history class before entering high school. The notion ...
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Here’s How America’s CEOs Can Live Up to the Business Roundtable’s New Purpose Statement
With the recent release of the Business Roundtable’s statement about redefining the purpose of a corporation, there have been a range of responses, some skeptical, on how companies can turn this lofty statement into a tangible reality. While initially it may seem challenging, it is an attainable goal if ...
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Hometown Heroes: Troy Borman
...tight-knit community. Everyone looks out for everyone and it’s an open and accepting community. What do you think you bring to the local community that makes it better? My business...
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Celebrating National Internship Awareness Month
...student commenting their experience helped them overcome the struggle to speak with strangers and become more comfortable talking to others. 82% of students felt comfortable making/giving presentations. About 88% felt...
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Celebrating our Exceptional Educators: Teacher Appreciation Week 2022
...However, Michele has succeeded in securing strategic community partners to ensure her students have access to work-based learning experiences despite teaching in an under-invested in community. She was instrumental in...
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Honoring Our EMS Workers and Paving the Path for the Future
...desperately needed, they are lacking the compensation to match their skills and effort. NAF prides itself on supporting local communities and their workforce needs and aims to support students on...
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Un Viaje de Esperanza (A Journey of Hope)
Hispanic Heritage month is a time to honor, reflect, and pay tribute to the sacrifices and contributions made by Hispanic Americans to our communities. My own family’s journey, like those...
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Seven Lessons in Youth Engagement
...the YPAR Toolkit. Most importantly, the collection of researcher reflections presents the “compelling why” for academies to do more to authentically engage students in shared ownership of school and community...
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Leading with Purpose | Lisa Dughi
...showing compassion, staying calm under pressure, and remembering that people are the center of what we do.” -Lisa Dughi, CEO Since taking on the role of CEO, Lisa Dughi has...
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Event Spotlight: 2023 Winter Student Conference
On Friday, February 3rd, Detroit Public Schools Community District, NAF, and Strategic Community Partners were proud to present the Winter Student Conference! This informative and engaging event was designed specifically...
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From finance to food, DC school aims to make CTE more attractive, accessible
...and is considering a career in computer engineering. Courses in the computer science academy include computer science principles, Advanced Placement classes and cybersecurity. “Technology is the future,” said Debebe, who...
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Business Leaders
Drive Your Business Forward Businesses partner with NAF to build a highly skilled and diverse workforce.Play VideoThe NAF Advantage Is your business searching for qualified candidates? Are you looking for creative ways to attract top talent? Many of the employers that come to NAF are facing challenges in ...
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Social Impact Heroes: Why & How Dirk Butler of NAF Is Helping To Change Our World
...work in service to the community. Leadership should always make the community better in the present and future. What are your “5 things I wish someone told me when I...
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The Micro-School Opportunity
...a) split screen innovation approach opening small thematic flex academies as in-district charter schools to enable competency-based progression. Their large comprehensive high school has three themed flex academies that started...
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Teachers, coaches make Vegas robotics teams possible
...Competition, it’s easy to focus on the students and the intricate robots they designed. Their mentors and coaches, however, are the reason they’re able to compete in the first place....
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Student volunteers sad to see tax season end
...a week. Others have hours several times a week after school and sometimes on weekends. When someone comes in with a complicated tax situation, Ochoa says he encourages students to...
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Woodrow Wilson students receive certification to help with IRS filing
...their help will be offered for free to the community. “There are a lot of opportunities that could come out of it,” said junior Angie Murillo, 17. “In the end...
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Scotlandville students celebrate NAF honor
...Rouge-based start-up company focusing on design and manufacturing of metal-based microsystems. His inventions cover fuel cell components, automotive components, microscale devices and microfabrication technologies. The NAI fellows will be inducted...
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Banking on Financial Literacy
...one size fits all approach when it comes to teaching students financial literacy, but there is one common thread in each of these approaches – the important role business and...
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High school students doing your taxes for free
...returns for low-income community members in partnership with the IRS’ Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program (VITA). In a time where education reform is the subject of national conversation, and President...
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How Schools Can Successfully Partner With Local Businesses
...Look for companies in your community that depend on exporting, importing, or international banking. And make contact with your local Rotary, World Trade Council, or Chamber of Commerce to explore...
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How Schools Can Successfully Partner with Local Businesses
...Look for companies in your community that depend on exporting, importing, or international banking. And make contact with your local Rotary, World Trade Council, or Chamber of Commerce to explore...
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Dallas Symphony Orchestra Honors Sanford I. Weill at 2016 Gala
...multi-media presentations. In fulfilling its commitment to the community, the orchestra reaches more than 270,000 adults and children through performances, educational programs and community outreach initiatives. The DSO’s involvement with...
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NAFTrack
[back-to-parent]NAFTRACK CertificationNAFTrack Certification, designed by education and business leaders, is an employability credential that serves as NAF’s seal of college and career readiness. NAF assesses student performance through the completion of career-focused courses, internship assessments, and high school graduation.For more information and to learn about the ...
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The Power of Opportunity
On May 8, 2019, NAF hosted its 16th Annual Benefit at the Mandarin Oriental, New York. The Benefit provides a unique opportunity for NAF supporters, advocates, and prospects to meet several of our standout students, who travel from across the country to present projects and share their achievements. It is a powerful ...
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Calling on the Experts: Weaving Student Voice into the School Experience
High school students spend nearly 60% of their waking hours engaged in school-related activities. Being one of their most critical communities begs the question: What kind of experiences are our...
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Alumni Award Winner Raymundo Lopez On Exposing More Young People of Color to the Engineering Field
...experiencing the remote Mexican communities that lacked the reliable, efficient, and affordable energy that I had taken for granted in the U.S. Because they were without electricity, these communities were...
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Hartford Public Schools Honor Career Pathway Success
...programs stay in passing status throughout the year. https://twitter.com/readyCTED/status/1532053377374371840?s=20&t=dJjG5oLic_l8cia3sobofg That alone is a win for the district—but the programs have also proven to be a win for the <...
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National Intern Day 2022: Spending a Summer with NAF
...power to change all of that, as economic success depends on a shared commitment to education and workforce development from stakeholders across academia, business, community, government, and more. NAF has...
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Alumni Award Winner, Pascalyn Omotosho, On Inspiring Others To Take Chances
...for a Fortune 500 company like Deloitte, KPMG. The beauty of my NAF experience was much more than gaining a quality education but also having access to a community of...
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Building A Generation of Socially Conscious Entrepreneurs
...the students have an opportunity to pitch local businesses and community leaders to invest in their company. NAF CEO, Lisa Dughi, was in attendance to help decide this year’s winning...
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Three Conditions that Create Responsibility & Ownership in Your Graduates
Youth acquire a deep sense of responsibility and ownership when they participate in issues of importance to them, including matters of community development and/or placemaking. NAF is committed to helping...
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Increasing Accessibility to Mentorships and Internships Through Mentored Industry Projects
...provided, allowing students to address real-world situations impacting their community. Some challenges stem directly from projects the partner company is working on, while others are community challenges noticed by students. ...
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Signism wins Rep. Colin Allred’s 2022 Congressional App Challenge in Texas’s 32nd District
...20 apps. The wildly successful competition continues to impress upon House Members the importance of computer science education and the need to develop a pipeline of diverse, domestic STEM talent. The...
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NC middle, high school girls learn about careers in technology in Morrisville
...tech industry. “The technology industry is really known for being innovative and there’s one area that tech companies lag behind and that’s gender diversity,” said Libby Richards, Community Engagement Manager...
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Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! NAF Thanks Our Teachers
...throughout his school, district, and surrounding community. In his 5+ years as Academy Director, he has cultivated a plethora of community partners and tripled the size of their advisory board....
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Se gradúan los primeros 47 estudiantes boricuas de la escuela superior de NAF Academies of Engineering
...y del Departamento de Desarrollo Económico y Comercio, además de profesionales de negocios locales. “En Raytheon Technologies reconocemos la importancia de apoyar a las comunidades locales y tener una conexión...
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Partner with Us
...mentors, and providing paid internships. Become a Partner Our partners include companies, individuals, and organizations who partner with NAF both nationally and locally, aligning their industry expertise, community leadership, and...
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Become a NAF Advisory Board Member
...board is intentional about seeking opportunities for them to go out into the community and use their skills." Tari YoungSenior Manager, Quality, Compliance and Sustainability "Our Depew High School program...
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Youth voice and sensemaking ~ the critical middle step to improvement
...understanding the data and the needs of the next generation of leaders in our academies, schools, programs, and communities? For those of us committed to student and organizational growth and...
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NAF Student Speaker Reflection – Benefit 2024
...gave me confidence and fundamental communication skills. Still, the academy helped refine my communication, which then allowed me to showcase leadership and trust my own ideas. I’ve also studied mainly...
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Announcing the Winners of NAF’s WBL Impact Program: Creative Activities, Substantial Results!
...career aspirations of becoming teachers. Student Impact Competition Winner: Technology Career Fair DeAnthony Neal ‘24, Frederick Douglass Academy for Young Men, Detroit Public School Community District Event support: Ashton Colson...
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City of Sanford Announces Newly Formed Mayor’s Youth Council
...impact they can have on the community they live in. This experience will help promote positive youth involvement and set the standard for future community service”, said Dr. Demetria Hayes,...
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Why these summer jobs will matter for high schoolers
...that Verizon’s wages were competitive. For Verizon, though, the payoff from the program may come years from now, in the form of perspective employees. “Part of the thinking is absolutely...
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First-year robotics team starts off strong
...each other in the FIRST Robotics Competition. There are state and national levels as well as qualifying rounds. The Gaithersburg team has participated in two competitions so far — one...
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Juniper Networks and Verizon Continue to Foster Student Success
...topics like job hunting, résumé writing, and communication skills. It was organized by Juniper, Verizon and the National Academy Foundation, a nonprofit organization (naf.org) designed to prepare students for success...
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Newly-named superintendent addresses ‘state of schools’
...said his company discovered it wasn’t finding the skill sets it needed to fulfill necessary positions, so they worked collaboratively with CMS to create a CNC (computer numerical control)-focused machine...
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DHS Academy of Insurance and Finance blazing trails for students locally, statewide
...garnered so much interest that the state department asked them to create a new insurance course to help build that component of the Career Tech program for Alabama. Now in...
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National Academy Foundation Launches Career Ready Certificate
...complicated equipment and where new employees are expected to have a fairly sophisticated set of technical skills. Rothstein said a lot of small companies and their high tech subcontractors are...
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Cimarron-Memorial Career Tech Academies get financial boost
...High Rollers Team 987 robotics team, said the $50,000 machine can virtually build the team’s competition robot parts from scratch. With the new machine comes a new strategy for the...
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D.C. tech students spend ‘Hour of Code’ at Microsoft
...told them. “If you do this right, you can come work at places like this and make a lot of money.” Then, she said, they can come back and teach...
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5Qs for North Rockland’s Academy of Finance students
...so I learned all about stocks. (I learned that) I could wake every morning and be a businessman, and go to work and come home, and do that daily commute...
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Glasgow High School and Western Kentucky University partner in Project Lead the Way
...important for the commonwealth because “we start young: identify students with the talent, the interest, the capacity to major in these STEM disciplines, and then complete these kinds of programs...
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Employers Open Doors to Certified Work-Ready High School Graduates
Ten major companies* have promised to give special consideration to high school graduates who have completed a rigorous system of academic and work-based learning experiences through the National Academy Foundation’s...
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Looking to Hire Certified Work-Ready High School Graduates?
Ten major companies* promised to give special consideration to high school graduates who have completed a rigorous system of academic and work-based learning experiences through the National Academy Foundation’s (NAF)...
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Queens students to design mock database framework for Metropolitan Museum of Art
...moxie to match his know-how. “It gives us an advantage.” The juniors — budding computer whizzes at the high school in Ridgewood — plan to present their inventory database and...
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Conference brings together leading businesses to address education reform
...complete high school on time and go on to obtain a post secondary degree, both areas that NAF has been successful in. The goal is to combine several factors that...
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Two days left for free tax preparation
...giving back to the community and help them with their financial situation. It makes their day,” Bollinger said. Even those who might end up owing money, it is still best...
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Students Help Kick Off ‘Recycling Means Jobs’ Day
...right here in Connecticut.” ‘Green to Gold’ Catherine Smith, commissioner of the Department of Economic and Community Development, noted that materials management, which she called a “sweet spot in our...
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Students find success in Sanderson academy
...Common Core, a set of education standards now used in North Carolina. Common Core stresses project-based learning, problem solving and assessments that test understanding of concepts instead of memorization of...
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Connecting Talent with Opportunity: Better HR Platforms and Career Education
...new sites are improving educator hiring. Teachers-Teachers, and recently acquired myEDmatch, is deploying computer dating technology and best HRIS practices to improve the hiring process. In a recent Hewlett-sponsored paper...
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Local Executives Give Insight to Northport High School Young Professionals
About 80 students from Northport High School got special insight on today’s competitive job market thanks to many businesses in the community who attended a networking event on Tuesday. At...
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NAF Senior Asha Amerson on How Education Changes Everything
Asha Amerson is a senior at Jennings High School Academy of Health Sciences in Jennings, Missouri.People look at women in my community in Missouri and think we won’t go any further than the limits put in place. Sadly, our dreams get put down at a young age and ...
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Alumni Award Winner Diana Ramos on the Importance of Access and Opportunity
It’s an honor for me to receive this award and speak to you all today. I want to tell you about my life and the part that my NAF academy played, at just the right moment, to get me here.Harmony Magnet Academy, along with their Engineering Pathway, was ...
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The Power of Networking — An Intern’s Perspective
Rushawn Johnson is a recent high school graduate and summer intern at Lenovo. Just a few months ago, the only thing Rushawn knew about Lenovo is that the multinational technology company is the manufacturer of the computers in his high school. Now, Rushawn is learning all he can about the ...
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Virtual Guest Speakers
...leaders. It’s easy. From the comfort of your own home or office, simply record yourself answering questions that speak to students about your career and how you got there. We...
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Turning Out EMTs at Eastern High
...community-wide effort over many years and the advocacy of a variety of stakeholders. Our major partners include Eastern’s parents, staff, and Business Advisory Council; Companies for Causes; MedStar Health; DC...
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Monticello High School Students Preparing Cost-Free Tax Returns
...Eric Shewmaker, doing practice tax returns and even learning tax law. They’re required to pass an IRS exam before they can prepare taxes for members of the community, free of...
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There’s More to Do Than Just Talk About Student Voice
...components: A youth-identified issue; use and analysis of data; partnership with adult allies and key deciders; and an agreed upon action and/or next steps. NAF has compiled research, tools, activities,...
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Raytheon Technologies’ FIRST Grant Program
...Team Number provided in the confirmation to complete the application. Please note- your application will not be approved if it is missing a team number. Step 3: Participate in a...
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Unpaid internships send a bad message about the value of young, diverse talent
...about paid vs. unpaid internships. It is imperative that students feel valued for their hard work and contributions to a company, so that they will want to come back and be part...
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Inequity in Work-Based Learning During COVID-19
...internships, apprenticeships, and work-based learning. (Learn more about MDRC’s ongoing research on YouthForce NOLA here.) Other discussion participants also reported that many students—particularly rural community college students, urban high school students, ...
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Barfield: How Elected Officials and Policymakers Can Strengthen Work-Based Education Programs for a Future-Ready Workforce
...is senior policy and advocacy director at NAF, a national network of education, business and community leaders who work together to ensure high school students are college-, career- and future-ready....
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Milwaukee’s Audubon InfoTech Academy Opens Their Doors for a Deep Dive with Students and Staff
“Challenging…ish” was how Maurice, a student at the Academy of Information Technology at Audubon High School, described participating in his first district-wide technology project competition. His team took first place,...
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How work-based learning benefits Gen Z, employers
...HR perspective, on-the-job learning often looks like career development seminars, and, if employees are lucky, free college through employers. But HR leads, consider: companies have the opportunity to upskill employees...
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Fifty New Academies Join NAF’s National Network
...a national network of education, business, and community leaders who work together to ensure high school students are college, career, and future ready. NAF’s educational design is uniquely comprehensive in...