Industry Engagement Schedule
Got youth ready to dive into the cases? Join us for an interactive engagement with one of our industry leaders. Learn more about the industry, and ask questions about the case — use the link below to submit a question in advance.
Missed a webinar? All past webinars are available on our Youtube Channel
Prep for Sessions with Junior Achievement: Download our Student Prep Guide, created in partnership with Junior Achievement of Washington, to help students get the most out of the industry session
Get your questions answered live: Participating students can submit questions for industry leaders in advance using our Google Form (Click button below to access)
Disclaimer: Participating youth and their teachers or adult advisors are responsible for securing all necessary parental permissions and/or waivers prior to participating in the Zoom webinar with industry leaders.
Explore Industries by Case
Case 1: The Food Chain
Related Industries: Agriculture; Business & Marketing; Environmental Conservation; Hospitality
Got an industry resource you'd like to share with youth? Contact the project team to get added
EarthGen’s carbon calculator is a powerful tool to identify opportunities to reduce the carbon footprint of your school community and help generate new local project ideas to effectively fight climate change.
Learn what it takes to get milk from the farm to your table on real Washington dairy farms. It takes serious dedication to keep cows healthy and comfortable while preserving the planet—see everything that goes into producing dairy in Washington’s own backyard with this virtual field trip!
WA Grown explores the science of food with the food scientists at Modernist Cuisine
Explore how restaurant owners and farmers work together to bring food to your table with WA Grown
Videos, information about Washington’s agricultural community and the family farmers that lead it
Award-winning chef and business owner Edouardo Jordan talks about being a chef, running an restaurant, and how he became an entrepreneur
MOD Pizza on running a business with a social mission
Case 2: Responding to COVID-19
Related Industries: Healthcare; Journalism; Emergency Services; Computer Science; Life Sciences; Outdoor Recreation
Minecraft is a great school resource. Educators believe it helps them teach their curriculum and lessons. Find out more about Minecraft: Education Edition
Work2BeWell is a digital wellness program from Washington’s Providence health care focused on positively impacting the emotional well-being of teens and promoting mental health. The curriculum and tools were created with teens and are intended to be used by students, parents, and teachers.
Learn about how Washington State’s new COVID-19 exposure notification app works, and talk directly the team that helped design it at our upcoming industry engagement in January
Join Adaptive Biotechnologies discusses how they decode the immune system’s response to COVID-19. Learn about how Adaptve improves people’s lives by translating the scale and precision of their adaptive immune systems into products to help
KUOW’s Radioactive program shows students how journalists ask good questions to get the best information to their listeners.
Healthpoint Community Health and Children’s Hospital discuss healthcare careers, from the CareerConnect@Home video series
Swedish Hospital and SeaMar Community Clinic discuss healthcare careers for the CareerConnect@Home video series
Case 3: Our Communities after COVID-19
Related Industries: Urban planning, manufacturing, natural resource management, housing, architecture, wildland firefighting
EarthGen’s carbon calculator is a powerful tool to identify opportunities to reduce the carbon footprint of your school community and help generate new local project ideas to effectively fight climate change.
Minecraft is a great school resource. Educators believe it helps them teach their curriculum and lessons. Find out more about Minecraft: Education Edition
Resources from recommended by the Department of Natural Resources to help communities prepare for the risk of wildfires
Pallet Shelters, an Everett-based company, has developed a prefab tiny house built with rot-resistant plastic composite walls and floors, which can be erected in 30 minutes or less
Learn how architect Juliette Dubroca transitioned from designing multi-million dollar homes to designing tiny house villages that create more housing for people during the pandemic
Washington-based wildland firefighter and author of “Smoke Jumper” talks about his career fighting wildfires across the West
Learn from SEH employees just 1-2 years out of high school about getting on a career path in advanced manufacturing, producing the silicon wafers that run all your electronic devices.
Career Explore NW shares a spotlight on careers in environmental science with Nicki Feiten, Water Resource and Wetlands Scientist from Spokane County Environmental Services
Learn how Zillow uses artificial intelligence and 3-D cameras to revolutionize the experience of looking for a home during a pandemic. From the CareerConnect@Home video series
Human Centered Design Resources
Resources from the Human Centered Design Workshop with the University of Washington
Download presentation and notes from the Human Centered Design 101 workshop with graduate students from the University of Washington’s Project EMAR and School of Human Centered Design and Engineering. Learn how to set up a human centered design process with your students/project teams, and see a design charette in action
View the Miro Board used in the Human Centered Design 101 workshop — see how the team used this online tool to create and vote on ideas to develop in the design process. Interested in using Miro with your students/project team? Visit www.miro.com — they also offer education plans for students and teachers
View the Human Centered Design 101 workshop slides for more resources you can use to design and collaborate on Challenge solutions virtually
Join graduate students from the University of Washington's Human Centered Design and Engineering school to learn about how human centered design practices -- starting with empathy and moving to ideas -- can help you design solutions to open ended Challenges like the State of Innovation. The team will lead you through a "design charette" -- a workshop that shows how to put human centered design into practice, and demonstrate tools that students and teachers can use to design project solutions.
Click here to access University of Washington’s toolkit for creating human-centered design workshops for K-12 students. Step by step guide on setting up design workshops with student project teams, and links to online tools for creating virtual design workshops