Ways to partner

Build Community Impact. Inspire Your Future Workforce.

We know the energy industry and the communities around it. Bring your work into the classroom, build a custom learning experience, or find the right opportunity in your community.

Four ways to start. Choose the partnership that fits your goals, your audience, and the impact you want to make.

Students designing and building model wind turbines in class
Real industries. Real classrooms.
Every way to partner

Choose your starting point.

Open any option to see what is included.

PACKAGE 1

Classroom Experience

Bring Your Industry Into the Classroom

Inspire early interest in your industry with a live, hands-on classroom or community experience delivered by a WhyMaker educator at a site your organization selects.

$5,000 Up to 150 students
✓5 workshops in one day
✓ 5 classroom material packs
✓ Led by a WhyMaker educator
PACKAGE 2

Community Needs Assessment

Know Your Community Before You Invest

Strategic research that tells you what already exists, what's needed, and where your organization can make the biggest impact.

$7,500 2-3 strategy & checkpoint meetings
✓Community research & validation
✓ Gaps and opportunities mapped
✓ Strategic recommendation report
Most popular
PACKAGE 3

Custom STEM Activity Kit

Turn Your Goals Into a Hands-On Kit

Create a custom activity kit designed around your company, your mission, or a specific business priority to showcase career pathways and workforce awareness.

$10,000 Custom design & development
✓Custom activity concept & design
✓ Branded educational content
✓ Student-facing instructions

Physical activity kits sold separately.

PACKAGE 4

Educator Training Program

Scale Your Impact Through Teachers

Reach up to 600 students by empowering educators to deliver this learning themselves, through a full-day, in-person professional development session.

$20,000 Reach: up to 600 students
✓Training for up to 20 educators
✓ 20 classroom material packs
✓ Full-day professional development

Not sure which fits? Book a discovery call

Students trying on arc flash protective gear at a substation
Every energy companyis feeling the workforce pressure.
The challenge

The problem you face.

Your industry's next generation needs more than a first job. It needs a way to understand the work, build relevant skills, and see a future in your field.

1

The experience and skills gap

Many graduates leave school without the applied, hands-on experience your work demands, and without early, trusted exposure to your industry, the families in your community rarely see that those careers exist at all.

2

A disappearing pipeline of workers

Retirements and unfilled technical roles are straining the energy sector. Without visible engagement in the community, young people aren't entering the field, and the neighborhoods you operate in don't connect your name to local opportunity.

3

Disinterest and misperception

Many students and parents see energy and infrastructure careers as outdated or out of reach. That same gap erodes community trust, and without early exposure it narrows both your hiring pool and your local goodwill.

The outcome

Outcomes you can expect from working with us.

Connect your investment in education to the people, communities, and future your business depends on.

ImpactYoung students celebrating the simple machines they built

CSI & CSR impact

Deliver measurable corporate social responsibility results while building the early career awareness that feeds your future workforce, one investment that earns community trust and talent at once.

ReputationStudents meeting energy professionals at a career booth

Public relations & community engagement

Be seen as an education partner, not just an employer. The goodwill you build in schools strengthens your reputation today and opens the door to the students who become tomorrow's hires.

WorkforceInternship students gathered with energy professionals

Talent cultivation

Give students the inspiration and skills to pursue careers in your field, built around local workforce demand, while visibly investing in the communities those students call home.

1Awareness
2Interest
3Alignment

We turn curiosity into career alignment by introducing your industry early and often across K-12 learning pathways. Co-created, branded programs authentically reflect your mission while engaging students.

A branded WhyMaker activity kit laid out with all its materials
Built around your world. Made for theirs.
Custom partnerships

Need something more tailored?

If your goals go beyond these program options, we build a custom engagement around your audience, your projects, and your business priorities.

✓Custom lesson plans

Give students a clear view into real energy career pathways through lessons designed around your company, mission, and workforce needs.

✓Internship-style & real-world programs

Hands-on, multi-week programs with job site visits and professionals from the field that simulate real energy careers.

✓Certification-based STEM training

Practical skills and real credentials, such as drone certifications, tied directly to career opportunities in your industry.

Free lesson plans

Explore the lessons in Package 1.

Classroom Experience includes your choice of one of these three energy career lessons. Preview the free lesson plans below.

Let's talk

Start with your goals. Let's find the right fit.

Whether you have a specific program in mind or a question about where to begin, let's talk about your audience, your priorities, and the difference you want to make.