Highland Prep (HP) features a senior Student Internship Program as a way to help students gain valuable insight into Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) related fields. HP also believes that students who participate in such field-related experiences will increasingly choose, and participate in STEM careers. According to a recent study called “High School Careers” 326 employers were surveyed about the importance of career development activities. Ninety percent of those companies indicated their belief that high school internships and volunteering, help students get into better colleges, and eighty nine percent view that experience as providing students with a “competitive advantage in securing a college internship or full-time job” (Education Week, 2014).
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PLTW Engineering Design & Development (EDD)
This course is the final, capstone experience in the Project Lead the Way sequence of learning. In this unique design course, students work in teams to engineer and develop original solutions to valid open-ended technical problems by applying the engineering design process. Students perform research to choose, validate, and justify a technical problem. After carefully defining the problem teams design, build, and test their solutions while working closely with industry professionals who provide mentoring opportunities. Finally, student teams present and defend their original solution to an outside panel. This course is appropriate for 12th grade students.
USA Jobs
U.S. Government’s official one-stop source for Federal jobs & internships. It provides worldwide job vacancy information, employment information fact sheets, job applications, and forms online. https://www.usajobs.gov/
Free Microsoft Office Resume Templates
This site has a short guide about choosing the right template for a certain career, and near the bottom of the page, they offer a bunch of template options that are divided into 8 categories, such as Basic or ATS-Optimized. http://www.hloom.com/download-professional-resume-templates/
