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Anchorage’s newest charter school
was extremely successful in providing
opportunities for students to connect
with the community through business
partnerships. Monthly luncheons included
presentations by business partners to
provide an overview of the type of work
they do and how it affects our community.
Activities outside the school began
with formal job shadows and internships
that students set up with Jim Utter,
Highland Tech High’s Director of
Community Partnerships. Our partners
include the following:
- Alaska Hospitality Alliance
- Alyeska Pipeline Services
- Apple Computer of Alaska
- Brenton White Inc
- General Communications Inc - GCI
- Porcaro Communication
- Sicily’s Pizza
- Subway of Alaska
- Municipal People Mover
- Totem Ocean Trailer Express, TOTE
- United Way of Anchorage
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 At our final business partnership
lunch, hosted by the Ambassadors of
HTH (our student group facilitating the
luncheons), many of our partners
expressed interest in forming extended
relationships with the students, including
alignment with the mission of Highland,
the skills of the students, and the opportunities
offered by businesses. We are
excited about the plans that are underway
to begin to address the need for
deeper connections that will directly
align our mission of integrating business
culture with academics to provide opportunities
for students outside the classroom.
Businesses will include students
as members on a team on real projects;
students will include business partners in
their presentations of projects developed
in school; technology skills will be highly
utilized in forming structured student-led
help desks for other kids, classrooms,
businesses, communities and groups
world-wide. Highland will continue it’s
mission of connecting students with the
people and resources in our community
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Educating for Leadership, Educating
for Life.
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