What is Senior Internship?

The CHARGEnorth Internship Program reflects a belief that professionals can contribute significantly to the education of young students. The internship enables our senior students to spend part of the school week with a mentor in the community engaging in authentic experiences in a career field of their interest. Consistent interactions with a positive career role model will expand students' social and intellectual skills and allow them an opportunity to contribute in a meaningful way to the mentor's workplace. Internship experiences may vary depending on company culture and industry standards but will include a variety of opportunities granted to the intern such as job shadowing, assisting with tasks, and contributing to a impactful project.

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Why Mentor a CHARGEnorth Intern?

Your time and energy are important! Here's why both are an investment and worth the commitment to host an intern:

• Marketing! We love posting about our students’ work and will post and tag companies on our social media

• Highlight your company’s investment in education and commitment to community outreach in your own marketing

• You’re busy! Train your intern(s) to alleviate your workload!

• Use the student’s strengths to help your company - they are great with technology, social media, and other skills. Their age isn’t a limitation - take advantage of their perspective and knowledge!

• Invest in possible future employees. Several of our interns have been hired for summer positions or a more intensive college internship.

Mentor & Partner Commitments

We try to limit what we ask of our mentors because we want you working on providing authentic experiences for our students. Here are the minimum requirements for mentors:

• One dedicated staff member who serves as the official mentor for the student

  • Students can observe others and different departments, but there needs to be one main point of contact.

• Allow the intern to work at least 60 hours per semester

  • 5 - 10 hours per week, September - November and January - April

• Sign a timesheet (the intern is responsible for tracking the hours)

• Fill out two evaluations for the intern each semester

• Provide as many learning opportunities as possible for the intern. While these are high school students and there may be limits to what they are able to do, the idea is that these students are doing more than running copies or other grunt work - we want you to gain from having them too!

• Give feedback and advice to the intern. There will be several assignments where the intern has specific topics to discuss with their mentor, but this is their senior year. Any advice or life experience you can share to get them ready and independent is always welcome!

*The mentor cannot be an immediate family member.