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May 13, 2021
RAPID CITY, S.D. Rapid City Area Schools is bringing career learning into its high school curriculum.
With the district’s newly launched Academies and Pathways Program students can partner with one of several local sponsors to get hands on job experience.
The goal is to expand the district’s Pathways Program and help give students a better career planning heading into their college years.
“And really what that means is were utilizing our business in higher ed community and bringing in opportunities to understand relevant and work based learning experiences, so that they’re linking what they’re doing in high school to what they want to do in the future and also good at,” said Melissa Miller Kincart, Director of Partnerships and College Career Readiness at RCAS.
Despite Pandemic South Dakota Mines Hosts Largest Spring Career Fair Ever
Mechanical engineering student Jonathon Kittelson, (pictured on the left with his supervisor, Jayden Prauner) spent last summer
interning with Cardinal Health in Norfolk, Neb.Â
While in school 79% of Mines students land at least one paid
major-related internship before graduation, many of students find internship opportunities
at a university hosted career fair.
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South Dakota Mines held the largest springtime
career fair in university history with 126 vendors signed up to take part on Tuesday, Feb. 2. These vendors are lining up to hire Mines students
for internships and full-time positions despite the ongoing pandemic. Â
New Stark County Social Services building near complete and under cost
At $10.2 million dollars, the new Stark County Social Services building came in under contracted costs by nearly $3 million dollars. The building is scheduled to open on Dec. 20 Written By: James Miller | ×
At 32,000 square feet, the new Stark County Social Services building will provide the North Dakota State University Extension Center, the Children s Advocacy Center of North Dakota Dickinson Office, the Sunrise Youth Bureau and Stark County Social Services with a centralized location. (Josiah C. Cuellar/ The Dickinson Press)
As the Stark County commission considered solutions to meet the growing needs of social services in Stark County, they approved a massive $13 million dollar project to build a new Stark County Social Services building. The nearly completed building, a near-decade long plan realized, witnessed its first occupants move in on Thursday, Dec. 10. The building i