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Microsoft and local partners pilot educator boot camp to connect teachers with Halifax employers
Summary
A weeklong, no-cost educator boot camp brought teachers to local businesses and firms to highlight technical and soft skills employers want; organizers asked the school board for approval to continue the program next year.
Organizers and participants described an inaugural educator boot camp that took Halifax teachers to local employers for a week of tours and hands-on exposure to industry, and they asked the school board for support to continue the program.
Jeremy Satterthill, who identified himself as leading Microsoft’s operations across southern Virginia, told the board the boot camp was organized with the Innovation Hub, the higher education center and Halifax County Public Schools and ran “at no expense to the…
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