Design Your Future Capstone Course
Students engage in exploring their interests, skills and values through an integrated course and applied professional experience or mentorship through Work-Based Learning (WBL). WBL can include a range of experiences as short as a couple hours of job shadowing to more significant participation in internships, apprenticeships, and part-time employment to student-designed experiences such as service learning projects and student-run businesses.
Ellie
Website for ESA and
camp outline
Laura
Little Explorers Preschool
Meghan
Explore medical careers
Annabeth
Social Media for Kindness Cafe
Maxwell
Scribe - Pediatrics Office
Lainey
Lainey trained horses at Spring Mountain Farm in 2020-21.
Learned that
"Patience is always key."
Dylan
Dylan worked with the athletic trainer at WAHS.
"Learned communication skills, problem solving, time management."
Michael
Michael shadowed in music studios
"Learned studio etiquette, that the environment is always different."
Aleena
Aleena developed the career ambassador program.
"Skills I learned: communication, presentation skills, leadership, teamwork, time management."
Caroline
Caroline explored interior design
"I learned practical skills and how different people were able to get their jobs."
Jacob
Jacob worked in landscaping and learned "how to manage time wisely, how to test the PTO switch that engages the blade, and other basic maintenance and repair."
To learn more about enrolling in the capstone course, meet with Ms. Bertrand!
Tate
Internship with Brave Virtual: this startup analyzes motion for athletes to help with their training.
"I learned workplace etiquette, problem solving."
Sydney
Sydney completed a mentorship at Northrop Grumman, and helped a UVA Engineering mentor with programming. She also grew the WAHS Squad program and developed training modules.
"I learned that I can be an engineer, and learned more about a possible engineering field for me."
Clifford
Clifford developed his programming skills with a mentor at UVA Engineering.
"I learned teamwork, hard work, and that computing is a definite interest for me."
Eric
Eric worked at S and P Construction, helping build the car wash in Crozet.
"I learned to talk to people that I don't know, and skills specific to the job such as plumbing, soldering."
Kayla
Kayla was able to parlay one job shadow into an extended job shadow of doctors at UVA
"I learned what works when engaging with patients."
Libby
Libby interned at WAHS with special needs students and as a teacher assistant in a second grade classroom.
"I learned how to adapt to each child's personality and break down their barriers."