AIKEN WORKS is an Aiken County collaborative to redefine individual success and provide opportunities to ensure highly-competent future employees.
How does Aiken Work? AIKEN WORKS teams up with local businesses to prepare students for the workforce through authentic hands-on paid experiences. The initiative will allow Aiken County’s students to develop employable skill sets, while building a highly capable future workforce for our community. With 50% of Aiken County’s workers eligible to retire in the next five years, the need to train Aiken’s youth in highly-qualified and skilled trades and professions is essential to our community’s success.
Join the movement that will propel Aiken County forward as a hub of cyber technology, industrial manufacturing, health and energy! For more information, contact Larry Millstead, AIKEN WORKS Lead, at Email Larry Millstead or by telephone at (803) 646-8985.
Meet the AIKEN WORKS Lead
AIKEN WORKS Lead Larry Millstead joined Aiken County Public Schools in November 2018. He enjoys developing new opportunities for students and collaborating with community partners to provide job shadow, internship, and youth apprenticeship opportunities for Aiken County Public School students.
Mr. Millstead can be reached at Larry Millstead or (803) 646-8985.
Aiken Works offers many different Work Based Learning (WBL) opportunities for our high school students, including job shadowing, internships, and youth apprenticeships.
Aiken Works and the Aiken High School Counseling Office co-sponsored an informative, three-part video series for senior students and their parents entitled "Senior Decisions." Aiken Works' core belief is a simple but important one - there are "Multiple Pathways to Success". This series provides students and parents with important information related to the decisions students will need to make regarding opportunities available to them immediately after high school. All videos are delivered in a round table discussion format featuring content-area experts from the CSRA and beyond.
The first video sheds light on moving straight to college, and how to successfully navigate the college admissions process.
The second video considers the option of military service and what students can expect from military life.
The third video focuses on the option to go straight into the workforce, and best practices on how to be successful on the job.
We hope you will join us for the Aiken Works "Senior Decisions" Video Series!
