A PARTNERSHIP IN LEARNING;
FROM HIGHSCHOOL TO THE WORLD OF WORK

Program Description

Partnerships in Learning: from High School to the World of Work is a new supervisor’s initiative established as a pilot program among the East Orange Board of Education’s Unique Schools, Kwest: Consulting Engineers and the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).

High School participants will be matched with NJIT student mentors/tutors, who are graduates of East Orange High School, and with a corporate mentor from Kwest. The Program requires a minimum of 90 hours participation from the high school students – 45 hours with the corporate mentor and 45 hours with the university mentor. The experience will also entail field trips, tours of NJIT facilities and cultural events on campus.

An added component of this unique program is the development of an afrocentric / multicultural curriculum for all district schools. It is anticipated that this initiative will enhance the District by advancing the goals and objectives from home to school, college, work and beyond.

The Partners

Unique schools of the East Orange School District is a choice concept which enables students to integrate learning experiences and to apply insights to world challenges. A flexible and highly challenging curriculum provides students the opportunity to study subjects of their choice in greater depth and to learn from teachers, other students and the community.

Kwest is a consulting engineering firm with offices in New Jersey and Delaware. An NJIT graduate, Mr. Trevor O. Flowers, P.E, established the firm in 1988. Kwest provides comprehensive consulting services in project planning and evaluation, design, analysis, implementation and management in the areas of civil engineering, structural engineering, hydraulics / hydrology, building technology and construction engineering.

New Jersey Institute of Technology, located in the University Heights section of Newark, is the state’s technological research university. NJIT serves approximately 5,200 under-graduate and 2,500 graduate students each year through Newark College of Engineering, Science and Liberal Arts, the School Industrial Management and the Albert Dorman Honors College.

The Educational Opportunity Program is an alternate admission program that provides comprehensive, educational and other support services to traditionally under-represented populations in mathematics and science base careers.

- Reported from Jamaica Daily Gleaner (January 2004)

We are Architects, Engineers and Building Inspectors practicing in North Jersey in the Counties of Bergen, Essex , Hudson and Passaic including the following cities and towns:
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We are Architects, Engineers, and building inspectors practicing in Central Jersey in the Counties of Middlesex and Somerset, including the towns of Warren Township, Somerville., Bridgewater, Franklin Township, Woodbridge, Old Bridge, Red Bank, Piscataway, Edison and surrounding area.