Creating Connections, Changing Lives

Mr. Philip Como

Smithtown IAB Executive Director

Inspiration from The IAB Executive Director-

​Building A Stronger Long Island Workforce - Partnerships Matter in Education!

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The Smithtown Industry Advisory has been known for providing the connection between education and industry for over 50 years. As a new teacher coming from industry over 30 years ago, I quickly realized that the connection to real world application of knowledge is the key to engaging our students to willing fully become involved in our programs and events. The experiential learning that occurs from all of the programs and industry engagement, that we offer here in the Smithtown IAB, brings true meaning to learning and builds professionalism amongst our students. Our over 500 industry partnerships offer more than just educational experiences to our students, our partners provide a wealth of career exposure and awareness that enables our students to choose careers that best suit their skills and needs. 

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The HIA-LI is one of our biggest partners as it provides our students with opportunities to their over 1200 industry members. The Smithtown IAB and the HIA-LI (as well as all of our IAB partners) have teamed up to develop programs to help encourage workforce initiatives to keep our students here on Long Island.  Our students have the opportunity to become emersed and engaged in a wealth of mentoring, shadowing, tours and internships that are designed to help them build careers in some for needed workforce areas here on Long Island. 

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Why is the Smithtown IAB so important? 

For the past 50 years the Smithtown IAB has helped to "write the success stories" of so many of our Smithtown graduates. Our Smithtown Alumni often tell their stories of how the Smithtown IAB helped them focus on a career pathway and how networking, through the IAB, enabled them to get the internship that propelled them to success. The impressive list of alumni that are doctors, lawyers, IT executives, and successful entrepreneurs, just to name a few, is exhaustive. They all have come back to the IAB willing to share their stories and help our current students, "write their success stories."  We welcome you all to join us and experience what we can achieve if we all work together as partners. 

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Please join us as we make connections that last a lifetime!

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Sincerely, 

Philip Como