The Idea Circle

12/13/2023

We love to partner with exception companies with exceptional people like these fine folks! Congratulations to the recipients of these awards, some familiar faces! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

09/19/2023

What a fun day we had meeting so many awesome young people! Thank you Bemidji Career Academies for having us! 🙌🏼

Over 100 students attended the career fair from TrekNorth Junior and Senior High School, Voyageurs Expeditionary School, Red Lake and Northome High School.

03/01/2023

Thank you Trek North for having us, and our instructor extraordinaire Don King 😁 We love talking to students and sharing what we do.

Thank you to Don King from Idea Circle for presenting to our students about trades, manufacturing, and military careers.

12/08/2022

We are proud and grateful to work with the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry on their Dual-Pipeline Program. Check out one of our fearless leaders Dr. Robin Larson in this piece!

The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry is hearing from employers and economic development teams about current and future workforce needs. Their last of their eight meetings from around the …

11/11/2022

Congrats to all students on a successful first term!

Another occasion to celebrate as we wrap up our first term at Bemidji High School--our Mechatronics students! Three young folks did their training and are earning credentials in Mechanical Fabrication, as well as credit at Northwest Technical College! Pictured here is student Jon as he wraps up his labs.

Thank you to all of the staff at Minnesota Innovation Initiative for working with our students term after term, year after year. We also want to thank our friends at the Youth Skills Training Program of the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry for helping make this industry training happen for our high school students!

Congratulations to Jon, Jack, and Gretchen!

10/25/2022

We love to support this unique and innovative program, well done Bemidji Career Academies at Bemidji High School! Shout out to Greater Bemidji for making this all possible!

09/23/2022

Cool podcast alert! We’re Actually Doing This! Check this out, awesome community members doing awesome things! Greater Bemidji Minnesota Innovation Initiative

Listen to this episode from We're Actually Doing This on Spotify. Woods and Reierson get to chat with Laura Carleton. Laura helps lead an initiative to help promote and train manufacturing industry employees through a specialized learning program MI2 part of the Idea Circle. www.theideacircle.com

09/23/2022

🙌🏼👏🏼👊🏻

We had a blast at the Bemidji High School Career Academies Career fair this week meeting lots of awesome students! We even had a pneumatic power circuit building competition, the students rocked it! Thanks for having us BHS Career Academies!

Greater Bemidji

08/13/2022

Congrats Blake!!! Our students are the best! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Bemidji Career Academy junior and Bemidji Steel Company's paid intern, Blake Kehoe, recently completed his mechanical fabrication course.

08/13/2022

Well done Avery!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Bemidji Career Academy 2022 graduate and Bemidji Steel Company's intern/employee, Avery Gieser, recently completed a full mechatronics program as well as a CNC milling certification.

04/12/2022

For the first time since fall 2019, around 1,500 Bemidji High School students bustled into the gymnasium and halls for the Bemidji Career Academies Career Fair on Monday.

04/12/2022

We met lots of awesome high schoolers today! Thank you Bemidji Career Academies and BHS for putting on such a great event!