Green Technical Education And Employment

Programs: Green tech provided career technical education services to more than 100 youth and young adults in sacramento, including solano county and various regions in northern california. Students have been introduced to emerging career opportunities in clean energy, construction, agriculture, computer programming, engineering and environmental protection. Specifically, participants are introduced to career opportunities in construction, transportation, utilities, manufacturing and environmental management. In addition, green tech students are taught employable soft skills, daily living and workforce development skill sets. Green tech students are taught the core-element of the green economy is to improve overall health conditions through smart infrastructure development strategies, including sustainable living practices and the development of evolving workforce skills.

classroom instructiongreen tech students are introduced to career technical education (cte) curriculum within the clean energy economy and career opportunities through interactive discussions, multi-media and special guest presentations. Clean energy vocabulary and terminology are introduced and examined through written and verbal assessment. In-class activities also include technical and craft projects (electric snap circuits, miniature solar car production), critical thinking exercises (debate and discussion) and career readiness exercises (resume writing, mock interviews, job search, personal documents, filling applications). Green tech conducts classroom instruction daily for green tech classes (construction, computer programming and agriculture) and local high school presentations on the overall green tech curriculum to youth and young adults ages 12-25 from various elementary school, middle school, high school and colleges.

green tech toursgreen tech identifies local businesses, large corporations, education institutions and community-based organizations that actively incorporate clean energy, energy efficiency principles and environmental management in their core missions. Green tech then organizes site visits and detailed presentations to its students to connect classroom instruction with everyday workplace experiences. 74 green tech students have visited 16 business establishments including four different construction sites (turner construction company and the golden one center sacramento kings arena under construction) with presentations about the buildings green energy efficiency features, the sacramento anaerobic digester converting waste to methane energy, a federal science lab (lawrence livermore national laboratory), aerojet roketdyne production plant, the california electric grid and a biofuel energy plant among others. Each of these presentations provided lesson on the green economy and career consultation. (google headquarters, turner construction company, pg&e control center, rt light rail maintenance yard, california independent systems operator).