Minnesota Innovation Initiative

09/04/2024

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12/13/2023

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09/19/2023

We love these partnerships! Thank you Bemidji Career Academies for putting on such a great career fair!

Over 100 students attended the career fair from TrekNorth Junior and Senior High School, Voyageurs Expeditionary School, Red Lake and Northome High School.

12/08/2022

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The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry is hearing from employers and economic development teams about current and future workforce needs. Their last of their eight meetings from around the …

11/11/2022

We love our students!

Another occasion to celebrate as we wrap up our first term at Bemidji High School--our Mechatronics students! Three young folks did their training and are earning credentials in Mechanical Fabrication, as well as credit at Northwest Technical College! Pictured here is student Jon as he wraps up his labs.

Thank you to all of the staff at Minnesota Innovation Initiative for working with our students term after term, year after year. We also want to thank our friends at the Youth Skills Training Program of the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry for helping make this industry training happen for our high school students!

Congratulations to Jon, Jack, and Gretchen!

10/25/2022

We love working with the Bemidji Career Academies! Thank you! And thank you to Greater Bemidji for making this possible!

09/23/2022

Check us out! Learn about all of the cool things MI2 and The Idea Circle are doing, and then check out some of the precious episodes to listen to other people doing amazing things. Like and subscribe to the podcast We’re Actually Doing This which is recorded right here in Bemidji by two awesome local teachers!

As always, we are a Greater Bemidji iniative so check them out too!

Listen to this episode from We're Actually Doing This on Spotify. Woods and Reierson get to chat with Laura Carleton. Laura helps lead an initiative to help promote and train manufacturing industry employees through a specialized learning program MI2 part of the Idea Circle. www.theideacircle.com

09/23/2022

We had a blast at the Bemidji High School Career Academies Career fair this week meeting lots of awesome students! We even had a pneumatic power circuit building competition, the students rocked it! Thanks for having us BHS Career Academies!

Greater Bemidji

08/13/2022

We have awesome students! Congrats Blake! 🎉

Bemidji Career Academy junior and Bemidji Steel Company's paid intern, Blake Kehoe, recently completed his mechanical fabrication course.

08/13/2022

So proud of you Avery!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Bemidji Career Academy 2022 graduate and Bemidji Steel Company's intern/employee, Avery Gieser, recently completed a full mechatronics program as well as a CNC milling certification.

04/12/2022

For the first time since fall 2019, around 1,500 Bemidji High School students bustled into the gymnasium and halls for the Bemidji Career Academies Career Fair on Monday.

04/12/2022

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We met lots of awesome high schoolers today! Thank you Bemidji Career Academies and BHS for putting on such a great event!