507
WBL & YAP Coordinators
25,207
2021-22 Students Served
10,141
Participating Employers
$56,241,580
2020 Wages Earned by WBL Students
381
Participating Schools
The Georgia Work-Based Learning Program assists businesses with building a highly trained, technologically sophisticated and career oriented young work force. Our goal is to assist in the creation of a strong support structure between local employers, students and schools. Work-Based Learning supplies talent to address industry workforce shortage needs. We promote an industry-driven system where employers set occupational skills standards, collaborate on curriculum, provide work experience and certify mastery of skills. Focus on the future with Georgia Work-Based Learning.
Super Lawn Technologies, a manufacturing company in middle Georgia, experiences huge success through the first ever Work Based Learning partnership with local schools. Learn how they have given energetic and smart students a chance to gain valuable work experience while getting paid.
“Without support from the WBL coordinators who really KNOW the kids...we may not have as much success.”
Tony Bass, Founder Super Lawn Technologies
WBL & YAP Coordinators
2021-22 Students Served
Participating Employers
2020 Wages Earned by WBL Students
Participating Schools
Our local Work Based Learning program provides sharp, professional students who are talented and eager to learn. We use WBL participants as part of our intern program and enjoy how readily they integrate with our team. It is wonderful to have this resource in our community for creating career paths that benefit small businesses with a work-ready work force to recruit locally from.
Brandon Owens– was a graduate of Hardaway High School in 2012. He was in the third cohort of students placed at Pratt Whitney Engine Center in Columbus, GA. Pratt Whitney, a United Technologies global company builds and services engines for commercial and military aircraft. The job placement involved working on the floor under supervision of as mentor on Monday through Thursday. On Friday Brandon would come back to the school wearing his uniform and assisted students in other Career and Technical classes while motivating them about their future career plans. He was practicing what his mentor did with him and emulated the model with his peers at school and preached the importance of employability skills and the importance of their technical skills.
Brandon has now been hired full time and has earned his FAA Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) license. All of his post-secondary training was paid for by Pratt Whitney. Brandon has moved up several ranks and has lately been moved to the team for the new Geared Turbo Fan (GTF) which is Pratt and Whitney’s latest innovation and most modern engine to date. He is now a trainer and mentor for new students coming into the program.
Brandon states, “Along with completing the work-based learning experience and becoming a full-time employee for a very successful company, I have been given a truly humbling opportunity, to go out and inspire students to join internships while they are still in school. I have been in several Georgia Work Based Learning seminars and meetings with school superintendents, Work Based Learning coordinators, and other educators. It has been a great eye-opening experience speaking to state legislators and stakeholders all over Georgia. With Work Based Learning and Pratt & Whitney I have been given much more than a job, but a career and a lifelong success.”
