MiCareerQuest Capital Area is a hands-on career exploration event designed to pique students’ interests and expose them to jobs they may have never heard of or considered before, particularly those in demand in our region. More than 4,400 students from high schools throughout the area are expected to participate. We need more than 70 local businesses like yours to be true partners in this event, helping plan the activities, and attending the event to create meaningful, fun, exciting experiences for students from districts throughout the area.
Here is the 3-minute video from our previous MiCareerQuest Capital Area event.
Careers are categorized according to 4 quadrants:
- Health and Human Services
- Business/IT/Arts/Communication
- Natural Resources and Agriscience
- Manufacturing and Engineering
Exhibit examples included:
- Navigating the state-of-the-art technology that controls the functions of heavy vehicles such as Granger recycling trucks.
- Trying their hands at welding through welding simulators (bonus points if they got the top score).
- Experiencing the inner workings of an emergency management mobile command center.
- Making tiny bristle robots with TechSmith that students will be able to race against friends and take home with them.
- Removing organs from a life-sized manikin at Sparrow’s surgical exhibit.
This 16-minute video from our previous event shows even more exhibit ideas.
Background:
MiCareerQuest Capital Area is being spearheaded by Teach. Talent. Thrive., or T3, a network of connected assets created to support education and talent development in the capital area. T3 is committed to helping the capital area become the exemplary STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) region in America. For more, visit teachtalentthrive.org. The event requires dozens of local organizations' hard work and partnership. This year's event will be May 19th, 2023, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the Lansing Center in downtown Lansing.
There is NO cost to exhibit. Sponsorships, however, are currently still available at various levels that could potentially provide great exposure for your company.
The deadline to register is March 31, 2023, which is fast approaching.
Capital Area Michigan Works! is a proud partner of the American Job Center network. Our three American Job Centers in Charlotte, Lansing, and St. Johns provide mid-Michigan employers and career seekers with the best resources to fulfill their employment needs.
