Partnerships

ISG connects architecture, engineering, environmental, and planning within the company.  Echo Park has partnered with ISG since 2018 to provide expert engineering and design learning to students and staff.  Teachers meet with various engineers from ISG to deeply understand design thinking and engineering concepts that then can be shared within the classroom.  Students participate in "Ask and Engineer" presentations, hands-on learning experiences from resident engineers, explore engineering tools, and more.  ISG is a strong partner in supporting the STEM Pathway within District 196.

Valley Natural Foods works to promote health and well-being through education and expertise in local, sustainable foods and wellness services.  Echo Park works with Valley Natural Foods to provide students with experiences from staff who speak about agricultural engineering and the importance of knowing about food supplies. Valley Natural Foods also provides students with healthy snacks to fuel learning along with a variety of other supports to Echo Park throughout the year.

The City of Burnsville partners with Echo Park by providing experts within the City's Natural Resource department to talk with students and staff about Water Resource Engineering.  Students learn about how water is managed throughout the city and ways to take care of this resource.  The City of Burnsville also provides 4th Grade students the opportunity to explore the Water Treatment Plant to see firsthand how water is treated within the community. 

Echo Park also partners with the city through the "Adopt a Park" program. 4th and 5th graders walk to the nearby Alimagnet Park several times a year to pick up litter and care for the park.  ISG volunteers also support park clean-up with our students.

Echo Park also partners with the City of Burnsville to introduce students to various community services such as Fire, Police, and more.  This partnerships helps students learn about the various parts of the community that help keep us safe.

Echo Park partners with St Cloud State University Meteorologist Society to learn more about how engineering and coding is used within this field.  Students learn from expert meteorologist the importance of using the Design Thinking Process when making observations of the world around them. Visiting experts also share how important the use of coding is within creating and predicting weather patterns.