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Industry leaders state it is important for businesses and higher education to create K-12 partnerships, which ensure children are educated about the engineering industry and engineering careers. Many employers are already participating in K-12 outreach; this includes working with the program Project Lead the Way, offering classroom presentations, and creating job-shadowing opportunities.

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"In the K-12 system—especially in high school—there are some new incredible opportunities around first robotics, first Lego, Project Lead the Way, etc., that I just wanted to mention because I feel like it should be part of the conversation because we talked about that pipeline from college to post-college." Metro
"We have people who work with Math Counts. I don't think we've reached as far as elementary school yet, but I know we're reaching out to the high school programs. Particularly in Hibbing, we've got a great candidate pool. We know one of the math teachers in the Hibbing high school. We are reaching out. Probably not as proactively as we could, but a lot of our employees have passion around that, so they volunteer their time and we reach into high schools." Metro
"Currently, there are over 260 schools involved in Project Lead the Way on a high school level. They are in need, and I would strongly encourage every industry to get involved with this. There are advisory boards that make up that particular program. They need projects, too, because they also have engineering design and development. It is a wonderful area to get involved with.

Lastly, we host a series through [MnSCU college]. We call them Zap Camps. Zap means nothing—I just thought that was a fun name. With our partnerships, [MnSCU college] has offered Zap Camps in the past. They are part of our partnership, so we expose students early on. Middle school is our specialty. Engineering, physics, math, you know, sort of the STEM disciplines. So, I would encourage schools and industry to carry those various students through this pipeline at an early age."		 Metro