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Bringing Skilled Trades Exposure Directly to You

Through immersive, hands-on experiences and one-on-one instruction from our team of passionate trades professionals, we are opening minds to the true impact they can have with a career in skilled trades. That’s the Big Idea.

 

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Mobile Learning Lab

Mobile Learning Lab

Our Mobile Learning Lab brings our hands-on experience directly to you, providing schools with a unique approach to CTE curriculum as well as equipping industry, nonprofit, civic organizations, and more with a new scope of opportunity for their own participants.

 

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WHO WE WORK WITH

Schools

Industry
Organizations

Nonprofits

Career
Fairs

Civic
Organizations

Correctional
Facilities

Transitional
Communities

Foster
Care

Here are some of the places we've been...
Iowa

Kennedy High School, Cedar Rapid
Sioux Center High School, Sioux Center
Spencer High School, Spencer
Spirit Lake High School, Spirit Lake

The experience was totally personalized. It’s one thing to have the technology and to have it be fun, but the staff has taken an extra step to provide individualized mentorship and advice.

Madeleine Ross
Program Manager, Tree Trust

Our kids still talk about it today, and we always remind them that that’s a real job they can do in their real life.

Jen Boersma
Agriculture Teacher, Russell Tyler Ruthton Public Schools

When I think about Big Ideas, it just makes me smile.

Debbie Grant
Counselor, Rural Minnesota CEP

Owatonna Community Education LOVES Big Ideas and the partnership we’ve had over the last few years. Both Big Ideas and OCE are doing the work to make the trades a desirable profession to go into. 

Lydia Yahnke
Community Education, Owatonna Public Schools