Microburst Learning’s Successful Technology and Applied Teamwork Program (STAT)

Purpose: (STAT) promotes academic, personal, and social achievement in the lives of at-risk high school students. The youth build a sense of community, teamwork and accountability through team building skills, competitions, and learning to work with new technology.

 
Results: The tangible end product is a virtual job shadow production, but the effects of the program reach far deeper than the technological skills gained by the students.

Improve Leadership and Teamwork Through Creating Virtual Job Shadows

Upon completion of the program, students are aware of the reality of maintaining a job, have increased their self confidence and planned and executed every stage of building an interactive component of a Virtual Job Shadow.

Each student has had a chance to succeed as a leader and as a team member and to gain the vital skills required to succeed in today’s world of work.

Students leave the program more prepared for the workplace and with the possibility of a successful college career. The Virtual Job Shadow content created by the students is used by Microburst Learning to complete the development of Virtual Job Shadows for each of the careers featured by the STAT participants. Once completed, the Virtual Job Shadows will be made accessible 24/7 and available at no charge for the students of South Carolina via the Personal Pathways to Success initiative “Connect 2 Business”.

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Virtual Job Shadowing

Purpose: To expose South Carolina students to multiple interactive Virtual Job Shadowing environments.

Economic Impact: Connect what a youth learns in school to what they can do in the real-world…have a positive impact on the drop out rate!

Virtual Job Shadows are attention grabbing interactive lessons built for teenager’s and young adults attention spans. The lessons allow students to experience South Carolina Jobs that may not be located in their county. Students can complete Virtual Job Shadows to make sure they are interested in a career field before visiting the job site.

Why Virtual Job Shadowing?

• Provides real life comparisons for everyday tasks and job specific tasks.
• Encourages students to focus on specific skills to prepare for a job in the specified career field.
• Requires students to actively participate in the Virtual Job Shadow. They cannot simply “click through” the learning experience.
• Creates a friendly and encouraging learning environment that grabs the students’ interest through the use of interactive educational games.
• Answers common career related questions through video examples, subject matter expert interviews, pictures and narrated text.
• Gives students opportunities to experience the typical tasks of the career field through behind the scenes videos and interviews.