WBL Oconee County

OCHS Career Fair 🎓 Over 20 incredible business partners joined us to share real-world career advice, opportunities, and inspiration with our students! A huge thank you to all of our community partners for investing in the future workforce! 💙 #ctaedelivers

WBL Student Spotlight🎄 Meet Odin, a Marketing Pathway student who’s lighting up the community—literally! He’s already hard at work with Athens Christmas Lights. He has designed the entire website, runs the social media and even created custom shirts with a QR code! #wblworks

WBL Spotlight! Meet Vy, a Work-Based Learning intern who’s gaining real-world experience at @piedmonthealth Oconee Health Campus! 🩺💙Through this opportunity, she is learning firsthand what it takes to care for others and make a difference in the medical field. #ctaedelivers

Meet Elise, a NOHS WBL student who is gaining hands-on experience at @highshoals_hawk as a Speech Pathology intern! 🗣️✨ Through the Work-Based Learning program, she’s learning how to support students in building communication skills and confidence! 💙

🌿Growing their future from the ground up! 🌱 Two of our Work-Based Learning students, Clayton and Wylie, are gaining hands-on experience at Evergreen Nursery while pursuing their passion through the Agriculture Pathway. #OconeeWBL #wblworks #AgriculturePathway

Congratulations to the WBL Employers of the Year: Urgent Care of Oconee and University Cancer and Blood Center! We had an amazing banquet catered by WBL partner, Farm 441, and over 180 guests in attendance.

OCHS WBL and Ag Mechanics students got to experience the ER Snell Simulator Trailer today and learn about internships/careers in construction! 🦺 🚧

Kicked off this year with a visit to @cfaatlantahighway 🐮🥤 - Their core values to serve, be better together, be purpose driven, and pursue what’s next align directly with our goals for WBL this year! #ctaedelivers #wblworks

So proud of our WBL students in the Young Dawgs program! ⭐️ The following students won first place in the competition this year: Joy Li, Brady Hawkins, Dani Mendell, Hollis Eversole; Runner-Up: John Nesbit

Congratulations to James for achieving his AWS Cloud Practitioner certification! #AWS #KeepClimbing

Proud to support and partner with secondary education! #OCSD #OconeeCountySchools #Georgia

Thank you to all of our mentors who attended the WBL Mentor Appreciation Banquet last night! We had over 200 people in attendance to celebrate our 77 business partners in Oconee and beyond. Congratulations to Surgery Center of Athens and EFI for being our Employers of the Year!

Our WBL students had the best time at the HSES Career Day! Areas represented today: healthcare, sports med, equestrian, marketing, education, welding, well drilling, and paving!

WBL Spotlight: Brooks, an Ag student, works at Elder’s Body Shop disassembling cars and doing repairs! 🛠️ #wblworks

A huge thank you to the OCS Alumni Association for awarding 4 CTAE students with a $250 grant to attend their CTSO State Leadership Conference! Congratulations to Aly Baynes, Aashna Ramayana, Emma Steger, and Deeya Mepani! @OCHSwarriors @NOHS_Titans

WBL Spotlight! Emma, a senior at NOHS, works with the horses at Arbor Hill Stables! In addition to caring for her own horse, she tends to the other horses boarded at the facility! 🐴 #wblworks

Two of our favorite WBL partners in one place! @ESP_Inc at Farm 441! #shopsmall

Spring semester is off to a great start! Meet Caleb, a Agriculture Vet Science student at NOHS. He works with the animals at Mutty Paws! 🐶

Students are registering for WBL next school year, and we’re looking for partnerships! If your business is interested, please email Lkucera@oconeeschools.org for more information!

We are excited to recognize EFI as the February CTAE Business Partner of the Month! We appreciate their support of our Engineering programs and Work-Based Learning students! #CTAEDelivers @OCHSEngineering @nohsengineering