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Get a jumpstart on your future career

The best way to learn about potential careers and open the door to viable job opportunities is to take advantage of career and service learning opportunities. Improve your leadership and employability skills, develop a network of business professionals and have fun while obtaining industry experience and making a positive impact on your community.

Why participate in Work & Community Based Learning Opportunities?

  • Opportunity to learn more about careers of interest
  • It provides the opportunity to develop technical, academic and employability skills
  • Makes classroom learning more relevant
  • Learn more about yourself
  • Develop and practice academic, technical and employability skills in a chosen career field
  • Earn credit and a paycheck
  • Obtain industry credentials
  • Give back to the community
  • Engage with groups of diverse individuals
  • Build a professional network
  • Expand your resume, career portfolio and/or college scholarship applications
  • You’ll have fun!
Work and Career Based Learning
Youth Apprenticeship

Youth Apprenticeship (YA) is a 1 or 2-year program that gives juniors and seniors in high school the chance to explore a career area of interest. Students spend part of their school day earning credit and wages while they gain valuable industry experience under the guidance of a local business mentor. The CESA 6 Youth Apprenticeship Consortium provides over 50 different career program areas students can pursue and employers can tap for candidates.

Youth Apprenticeship Website

Student Handbook

Classroom Experiences

Various classes collaborate with community partners to learn more about career experiences. This can include business tours, job shadows, and classroom speakers.

Work Experience

School-supervised Work Experience is a course designed to give high school students a chance to choose a career area and explore it though work experience prior to graduation. This experience can be either paid or non-paid volunteer hours. Students will be excused from a portion of the school day for work and will receive elective credits. This is a term course that can be taken each term for a total of two credits for the year. Students interested must complete an application to be eligible. Students should already be employed or be guaranteed that they will be employed when school starts in September. Staff and prospective employers will screen all applicants. 

Service and Leadership Opportunities
Student Council

The purpose of the student council is to give students an opportunity to develop leadership by organizing and carrying out school activities and service projects. Student Council is an organization conducted by students and supervised by adults.  In addition to planning events that contribute to school spirit and community, the student council is the voice of the student body.  They help share student ideas, interests and concerns with the school wide community. Student council members plans homecoming events, dress up days, Winter Fest, Turnabout Dance, teacher appreciation projects, Wellness Day events, holiday events, and much more! 

Students can contact Mrs. Scheeler at tscheeler@littlechute.k12.wi.us for more information.

DECA

We prepare emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in marketing, finance, hospitality, and management. There are 3 core areas of DECA: competition, community service, and career development. We attend fun conferences in places like the Dells, run community service activities, compete on an international basis, and look to grow our professional skills and networks.

All students 9-12 can join DECA, especially if you have an interest in business! Simply reach out to Ms. Grenlie at tgrenlie@littlechute.k12.wi.us or stop by room H230. Keep an eye out for our club informational meeting through the announcements

National Honor Society

The National Honor Society (NHS) elevates a school’s commitment to the values of scholarship, service, leadership, and character. NHS hosts the Senior Faculty game, does service projects such as Caroling for Cans and serving meals at Pillars, and encourages individual service in the school and community.

Membership in the NHS requires application. A student must maintain a 3.5 GPA, participate in at least one other club, engage in multiple school activities such as other clubs, athletics, musicals, drama, etc., complete a minimum of 20 service hours per year, and have at least one leadership role.  All 9-11 grade students that qualify may apply in the spring for the following year’s induction. Please contact Ms. King at tking@littlechute.k12.wi.us with any questions.

Skills USA

SkillsUSA empowers its members to become world-class workers, leaders and responsible American citizens. We improve the quality of our nation’s future skilled workforce through the development of SkillsUSA Framework skills that include personal, workplace and technical skills grounded in academics. Our vision is to produce the most highly skilled workforce in the world, providing every member the opportunity for career success. Members participate in Skills Competitions ~ Social Events ~ Community Service ~ Professional Development ~ Business / Industry Tours ~ Fun Lunches~

Please contact Mr. Larson at jlarson@littlechute.k12.wi.us for more information

Sources of Strength

Our mission is to prevent suicide by increasing help seeking behaviors and promoting connections between peers and caring adults. We spread hope by focusing on stories of strength, rather than on stories of trauma. We know our most powerful impact comes from our personal actions, conversations, and messages that use our music, our art, our writing, our activities, our social media, our culture, and our voice. This gives life to our efforts.

Students can volunteer or be nominated by a Peer or Peer Leader. We are looking for leaders in areas: artist, musicians, actors, athletes, etc..  If you are interested in joining this club please email either Mrs Gretz at lgretz@littlechute.k12.wi.us or Mrs Mokrzycki at mmokrzycki@littlechute.k12.wi.us 

Key Club

Key Club is an international, student-led organization that provides its members with opportunities to provide service, build character and develop leadership. At the most basic level, Key Club is about students going out into their community to determine where there are individuals/groups in need of help, and we figure out a way to help them.

Anyone can join at any time! Just email Mr. Van Eperen at dvaneperen@littlechute.k12.wi.us and he will get you all set up.