This extremely valuable experience provides additional tools to help your students be better prepared for the future. Geared towards K-12 teachers, administrators, career advisors, and other educational stakeholders this FOUR-WEEK externship provides a firsthand look at how the engineering design process and 21st century skills are currently being used in an industry environment.
Participants get a deeper understanding of how industry addresses a variety of technological challenges and can use that knowledge to help students improve their ability to use problem solving processes.
This will not be like a typical internship experience!
During the four weeks, you will not be responsible for a single job, but rather you will move about many departments within the company to get an overall understanding of how the company operates. As part of that process, you may be given a project or mini tasks to complete, but the experience is designed to expose the educator to many different types of activities in which the company engages. This experience is not about matching your skill set with the company's needs. This experience is about exposing you to situations in which you may be unfamiliar in order to equip you with additional knowledge and tools to better prepare your students with awareness and understanding of the engineering design process, 21st century skills, and career opportunities in STEM fields. The focus is on process knowledge, not content knowledge.
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