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Shakopee spotlight: students and local employers describe hands-on mentoring during National Mentoring Month
Summary
At its Jan. 27 meeting the Shakopee Public School District highlighted career-focused mentoring partnerships, with students and local partners describing internships, site visits and project work; the board also approved the meeting agenda.
At its Jan. 27, 2025, meeting the Shakopee Public School District held a student partner spotlight for National Mentoring Month, featuring students and community partners who described internships, industry site visits, client projects and other hands‑on mentoring activities that connect classroom learning to local employers.
The spotlight brought together students in the district’s CAPS and CAP STEM pathways and partners from Saint Francis, Bayer Crop science, Scott County Library and Scott County Administration to describe how mentorships give students workplace experience, project skills and career exposure. Josh Betcher, quality and engineering manager for manufacturing at Bayer Crop Science and the CAPS Engineering Manufacturing Academy champion, said, “we try to provide an opportunity for students to learn some competencies towards manufacturing…
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