Designing the Future of Work

Key Insight | Yass Prize STOP Awardee ($200,000) – Semifinalist: Arkansas Lighthouse Charter Schools, a K–12 charter network, is expanding how students define careers in agriculture through a specialized agricultural science curriculum and an AgriSTEM Pathway Program for older students. As Deputy Director of Innovation, Wendell Scales Jr. helped position and advance a vision for developing Arkansas’s first K–12 Ag/STEAM school, integrating Freight Farm design with a strong college-to-career pathway and developed in partnership with the University of Arkansas, Bumpers College of Agriculture, Food, and Life Sciences, to strengthen local and statewide workforce development.