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Summer Career Accelerator
How Summer Teamship Works
Over one or two intensive weeks, teams of students solve meaningful and urgent problems for businesses and organizations from your community. No case studies or hypotheticals. The most critical part of the experience is that it’s real.
Diversify
District C groups students with different backgrounds, strengths, and perspectives into problem-solving teams of 4 students each.
Launch
Teams learn the mindsets and tools needed for collective problem solving and interview their business partner to better understand the business problem.
Solve
With support from their coach, teams work to understand the root problem, test potential solutions, and create a solution proposal for the business partner.
Pitch
Teams propose their solution to the business partner and answer questions in a live workshop attended by community stakeholders, school partners, and parents.
We Do the Heavy Lifting
Business Partners
Coaching
Program Administration
Our Summer 2023 Partners
We are proud to have partnered with the following districts for the Summer Career Accelerator in 2023. Ready to join us in 2024? I’m interested.
Region 2 - Southeast
Region 3 - North Central
Region 4 - Sandhills
Region 5 - Piedmont-Triad
Region 6 - Southwest
We asked a few Summer Teamship students from Johnston County how they felt at the end of their Summer Teamship experience, right after they pitched their solutions to their business partners in front of a live audience. Here’s what they said.
Hear from business partners who provided real business problems to Teamship students.
Hear from more SCA 2023 students!
Ready to bring Teamship to your students?
FAQ
What is Summer Career Accelerator?
Part of NC’s COVID relief funds have been granted to Summer Career Accelerator (SCA) programming. Through SCA, each school district has been allocated funds to spend on career-based learning opportunities.
Is funding available?
Yes! The Summer Career Accelerator program is funded through PRC 188. If you are out of 188 funds, please contact us. We may have alternative funding sources.
Is Teamship recognized by NCDPI?
Yes, Teamship is recognized by NCDPI as a qualifying program for Summer Career Accelerator (PRC 188).
What is the target student profile for Teamship?
Rising 9th through 12th grade students with diverse backgrounds, interests, and academic profiles.
How many students can participate?
It depends on the number of school sites you’d like to include. We recommend between 24 and 60 students for each school site.
Does District C provide training for our educators?
Yes, or you can use our Teamship coaches. Either way, quality coaching is key to the Teamship experience. The advantage of training and certifying your educators is that they can use their certification after the summer to implement Teamship on an ongoing basis to augment career preparation courses and programs at their schools. If you’d prefer not to train educators, District C can provide expert, certified coaches.
What is the recommended schedule for Teamship?
One intensive week (full days) or two intensive weeks (half days).
Does District C find the business partners?
Yes. District C sources, recruits, and screens the business partners, and we work with them to define a problem for student work. If you’d like to partner with specific businesses in your community, you can introduce them to us and we’ll take it from there.
Does District C plan and administer the program?
Yes. We handle all program aspects including business partner management, student onboarding and communication, coach support, tech setup and management, and pitch event management.
How does Teamship meet the goals of Summer Career Accelerator?
Referencing the state workforce goals of NCDPI, Teamship “prepares the future workforce with the skills and experiences required to be successful productive citizens, providing a robust talent pipeline that powers the State’s economic development efforts.” Teamship also supports the following NCDPI goal: “Ensure that all students engage in career exploration and real-world learning activities through the K-12 journey.”
What kinds of outcomes would we measure?
We will measure the following: (1) value delivered by student teams (as measured by percentage of business partners who intend to implement student solutions), (2) employability (as measured by employers’ perception of Teamship-experienced students versus non-Teamship-experienced students), and (3) durable skill development related to teamwork and complex problem solving (as measured by self-reporting of before-and-after confidence levels related to teamwork and complex problem solving).
