FORT MILL, S.C. (CN2 NEWS) A Fort Mill business is opening its doors for new opportunities amid COVID-19. Loom Co-Working, is working with community professionals and area school, to start a new program for students that they say will not only get them back into the community, but will also provide new networking opportunities.
Loom’s owner, Jennifer Belk, saw an opportunity for students. Students will have the chance to do their virtual school work in a professional environment which leaders believe will teach them to look ahead.
“Giving them the opportunity to reconnect with some of the professionals within the schools, to broaden their base of exposure to different types of professions and things like that and who knows where those types of opportunities and exposure will go,” says Belk. “They may be introduced to professions they didn’t even know existed.”
COVID-19 has caused many high school and college students to not be able to be as active in the community, or even attend internships. Through this program, Loom is seeking to change that, by connecting students with professionals and providing them a unique working opportunity before they graduate.
Susan Brackett, with Fort Mill Schools, says this is allowing students to put themselves in a new situation and gives them the important opportunity to look into their career interest.
“Nowadays especially, you’re going to spend a small fortune pursuing a career. And if you end up at the end of the day, not being happy that’s a sin right? But instead, if we can expose you to that, talk to people, use your own filter when someone says, ‘I like this or I don’t like that’, ‘do you like this do you like that?’ And then you decide for yourself before you pursue it before you go to a university,” says Brackett.
In the video above, CN2’s Rachel Richardson is learning about how they’ve shifted gears, during COVID-19.
