Purpose:
The Internship course provides an opportunity to link and work on a continuous basis by bringing together all the stockholders in a community to jointly discuss and decide an educational path for students. The core of the youth internship approach includes a change in the way students are taught by focusing on application rather than lecture, and by connecting students to the world in their community, state and region.
The youth internship philosophy is one part of education reform and is systemic in nature. The active involvement of the workplace in becoming a learning environment will challenge students of higher academic skills and skill standards and will help them to better identify careers of interest to them. The purpose of this program is to give junior and senior students an opportunity to expand their experience in the career cluster of their choice.
Enrollment Criteria:
Student must have completed and received a B average (86%) or better in the careers course prior to enrolling in the internship program.
Student has had no more than ten excused absences during the year prior to the internship.
Student has had no un-excused absences during the year prior to the internship.
Student has had no more than five un-excused tardies during the year prior to the internship.
Student has had no history of being removed from any class for misbehavior or suspended from school for any reason during the year prior to an internship.
Student must submit completed internship application in to the Internship Coordinator.
Application submittal and completed contract deadlines are as follows: (Note: if the deadline date is not a school day, the date reverts to the Monday immediately following the stated date.)
Summer: March 1 application; April 1 for completed contracts
Fall: May 1 for application; September 1 for completed contracts
Spring: December 15 for application; January 5 for completed contracts
Exceptions to the above criteria may be allowed at the discretion of the Internship Coordinator and/or HS principal.