On September 26 at the Kentucky State Capitol, legislative and business leaders joined Kentucky’s Commissioner of Education and the We Lead CS team to share how Chambers of Commerce and schooldistrictscanputtheGeneralAssembly’s $3 million investment in tech talent pipeline developmenttoworkforstudentsandemployers.
Chambers of Commerce know their businesses better than anyone, so we’re asking them to take theleadon:
Identifying which Kentucky employers are hiringtechtalent. What skills those employers need in their tech talentpipeline. Howtheywillinvolvethoseemployersinvirtual work based learning with students in We Lead CS
We Lead CS teachers provide daily, virtual instruction to students in three dual credit computer science career pathways and connect them with tech employersinvirtualworkbasedlearning. Wehavespacefor300newstudentsin2025-26. Email us now at info@weleadcs.org so you don’t miss out on these opportunities for your students inthecomingschoolyear.
CrackingtheCode
THE INTERALLIANCE CRACKED THE CODE ON HOW TO PUT HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO WORK IN CORPORATE TECH JOBS
WeLeadCSandtheINTERalliancearereadytodothesamefor studentsacrossKentucky!
Eighteenyearsago,leadingtechemployersintheCincinnati regioncametogetherwithavision: dramaticallygrowand diversifytheirtechtalentpipelineininnovativepartnerships betweenbusinesses,highschools,anduniversities.The INTERallianceisanessentialpartoftheregion’sstrategyto prepareworkerstofilltheexplodingnumberoftechnologyjobs andwillscaletheirmodelinKentuckyinpartnershipwithWe LeadCS
INTERNSHIPS
TheINTERalliancefacilitatedarecordnumberofinternshipsthis summerinfieldslikecybersecurity,dataanalytics,andsoftware development.Studentsexploredcutting-edgecareersshaping thefutureofKentucky’seconomy.
TwostudentsfromOwenton,KYinternedvirtuallywithProcter& GambletotesthowWeLeadCSandtheINTERalliancecanput ruralKentuckystudentstoworkfromtheirhomecommunities WedesignedthemodeltodramaticallyexpandKentucky students’accessto paidworkexperienceinhighdemandtech occupations
VIRTUALWORKBASEDLEARNING
TheINTERallianceisconnectingWeLeadCSstudentswith employershiringtechtalentforvirtualjobshadowing,project challenges,andspecializedtraining -collaborationinGitHub andAGILEprojectmanagement,forexample-thatwillmake ourstudentsthemostcompetitiveapplicantsintheentrylevel techtalentworkforce EngagingKentuckyemployersinthis effortisthereasonWeLeadCScreatedthe$100,000Takethe LeadgrantprogramforKentuckyChambersofCommerce
We’dlovetoschedulesometimetotalkwithyouabout howWeLeadCScanmeetyourneeds.
