CPP Innovation Labs and WyoTech Bring VitaNavis to High Schools, At No Cost to Students

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 4, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- CPP Innovation Labs, a division of CPP, Inc., announced that it has partnered with WyoTech to offer high school counselors nationwide the VitaNavis™ platform at no cost, to all of their students. Created by CPP Innovation Labs, VitaNavis provides an online portal for administering the SuperStrong™ Interest Inventory, an optimized and highly accurate version of the world's most widely used interest assessment, to help individuals find potential education and career pathways. For each pathway, the site links users' personal interests to careers, salaries, job outlooks, skills, and education requirements, offering psychometrically validated life direction within 10 minutes. Counselors can register at https://vitanavis.com/wyodemo.

"Interest Fit is a proven and significant factor in common measures of career and educational success, including persistence, academic performance, and even income attainment. Students who are interested in their studies and understand how schoolwork relates to their future, become more engaged and motivated to achieve their goals," said Chris Mackey, Senior Vice President, CPP Innovation Labs. "The SuperStrong assessment helps high school students, from freshman to seniors, understand how their personal interests relate to the world of work, so they can explore pathways that are likely to lead to fulfilling, successful careers." 

Guiding students to the right career shouldn't be a guessing game
The partnership, officially launched at American School Counselors Association (ASCA) conference in New Orleans this year, will enable students to explore career pathways, and return in the future to check out new and innovative features.

"As a non-profit technical school with specialized programs, WyoTech understands the importance of a solid match between personal interests and careers," said Curt Hemmeler, Associate Vice President of WyoTech Field Admissions – West. "As a community partner interested in helping students evaluate their career options, we're proud to sponsor CPP Innovation Labs' VitaNavis platform for our secondary educational partners to use at no cost."

The initiative to make the VitaNavis platform available to high schools and school districts supports CPP Innovation Labs' and WyoTech's mission to materially improve student outcomes in underserved populations. WyoTech—a nonprofit career technical training school that provides a community for students and instructors who are passionate about the automotive, diesel, motorcycle, marine, and collision/refinishing career fields—is sponsoring this VitaNavis offering to not only help students understand if they are a fit for WyoTech, but also to explore the myriad career pathways outside of those offered by WyoTech.

About CPP Innovation Labs
CPP Innovation Labs (cppilabs.com) provides personal and organizational improvement solutions through the integration of rigorous data analytics with research-tested personality measures. As an incubator of CPP, Inc. (CPP.com), CPP Innovation Labs combines expertise in data science and cutting edge technologies with decades worth of peer reviewed and scientifically validated assessment data to conduct personality and behavioral research in the areas of education, people analytics, and healthcare. Continuing CPP's 60-year commitment to improving people's lives through a better understanding of themselves and others, CPP Innovation Labs is dedicated to making our proven insight accessible to all people as they make decisions at critical points in their lives.

About WyoTech
WyoTech was founded more than 50 years ago in Laramie, Wyoming, and has since become one of the premier providers of technical training in the U.S. In its state-of-the-art facilities, WyoTech offers training for mechanical and technical occupations in automotive, diesel, collision/refinishing, motorcycle and marine technology. For more information, visit www.WyoTech.edu.

About Zenith Education Group
Zenith Education Group is a nonprofit provider of career school training and a member of ECMC Group. Above all, Zenith is driven to help students succeed by providing affordable, quality education and training for occupations in demand. Through its Everest and WyoTech schools across the country, Zenith offers diploma and degree programs in the healthcare, skilled trades, business and other fields. For more information, go to www.zenith.org.

Contact:
Michael Burke
MSR Communications
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415-989-9000

Melissa Junge
CPP, Inc.
[email protected]
650-691-9105

Laura Telander Graf
On behalf of WyoTech
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SOURCE CPP, Inc.

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