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New Prague High School expands work-based learning with youth-skills training grant
Summary
Principal Brian Thorstead said New Prague High School completed its second annual career and technical education fair with more than 55 businesses, is in year two of a Department of Labor and Industry youth skills training grant that funded a workforce coordinator and a new work-based learning class (34 students), and plans an emergency medical responder course next spring.
Brian Thorstead, identified in the meeting as New Prague High School principal, briefed the EDA on the district’s career and technical education (CTE) work and grant-funded programs.
Thorstead said the district held its second annual CTE fair with more than 55 businesses participating and that the youth skills training grant from the Department of Labor and Industry allowed the district to place a workforce coordinator and to launch a work-based learning class with 34 students currently enrolled. "That grant allowed us to put a workforce coordinator in place for this year," Thorstead said, and he praised the coordinator, Lindsay Schutte, by name for her work in creating the program.
Thorstead also described a new emergency medical responder course to be offered next spring (instructor Chase Boothy), said the district expects to have more than 60 students CPR-certified by the end of the school year, and said future grant rounds will target manufacturing or automotive pathways.
The principal credited local business involvement—guest speakers Nick Slavik and Maddie Liaski among them—for making the CTE fair successful and said the district will continue pursuing grants that expand student pathways into the local workforce. No board action was required.
