Long Beach CaLL's Summer 2019 Internship Celebration
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On Thursday, August 22
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, nearly 150 employers, students, colleagues, and other community stakeholders attended Long Beach CaLL’s Summer 2019 Internship Celebration. The event, held at Browning High School and sponsored by the Port of Long Beach, celebrated the 54 employers and over 100 students who spent the summer working together, sharing and gaining experience, and making connections that made a difference, big or small, in each other’s lives.
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As Carl Gorski (pictured second from the right), one of two student interns who spoke at the event stated, “I really think that the big takeaway for me will always be on the personal side with the experiences I had, the people I’ve met, and the memories I’ve made.” Carl was one of three students who interned at Toyota Auto Body California (TABC), Inc. this past summer. Two students who interned at LBUSD’s Office of Multimedia Services presented a summer internship program video that they recorded and produced during their internship. The
video
can be found on our website:
www.longbeachcall.org
, under news.
The event also paid tribute to the late Jean Egan, Executive Director for Long Beach CaLL, who unexpectedly passed away in late June just as the internship program was underway. She always had a passion to help students succeed, providing opportunities for their growth in being career ready. Jean would have been proud of the students who interned this summer and very appreciative, as CaLL always is, of our employers that hosted interns and provided an opportunity to students to gain experience and important skills.
The highlight of the event was an announcement made by Chris Steinhauser, Superintendent of Schools for the Long Beach Unified School District. With the projects he has lined up, he made an offer to every student that interned through CaLL this summer to continue their work experience into the school year with the school district. Students can email him directly for more information.
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Thank you to the Port of Long Beach for sponsoring this event. To all participating employers, again, THANK YOU for being a valued partner and THANK YOU for providing internships and memorable experiences for our students. We look forward to working with you in Summer 2020!
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Laserfiche Trains Teachers at Wilson High School
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In last month’s e-newsletter, we wrote about a teacher externship experience held at Laserfiche. Back in July, two teachers from Wilson High School spent part of the day at Laserfiche being introduced to mob programming, a software development approach where a whole team programs together, at the same time, in the same space, and at the same computer. To continue the momentum and the excitement around the training Laserfiche provided, Tricia Swift and Kevin Roberts from Laserfiche visited Wilson High School on August 28 to introduce the Agile development methodology, with focus on Scrum, to several Wilson teachers.
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Agile methods of software development are most commonly described as iterative and incremental development. The general idea is to split the development of the software into sequences of repeated cycles (iterations). Scrum is one of the implementations of agile methodology. It uses an iterative approach to delivering a “product” in a sustainable and continuous fashion. Tricia, Senior Software Test Engineer, and Kevin, Software Test Engineer III, presented the basics of Agile and Scrum, and afterward the teachers had the opportunity to have a hands-on experience with Scrum. Each teacher was able to simulate a cross-functioning Scrum team of developers, designers, and testers. As Kevin acted as their “Product Owner” and Tricia as the “Scrum Master”, the team was tasked to iterate through three sprints to “create the newest Lego community on the surface of Mars.” As Sopath Kong, teacher at Wilson stated, “this training reinforced the idea that collaboration in the workplace is not an option, it’s a requirement.
Some students just refuse to work with others or think they can do everything by themselves without help. The Scrum training really hammered home the importance of teamwork, communication, and collaboration.”
This workshop not only brought forth Laserfiche Scrum Masters to share their knowledge and experience of Scrum with the teachers, but provided an opportunity to teach and use these strategies with their students. Sopath said, “
I will be using what I have learned to show students how projects are completed in the CS industry. Students can see how huge projects can be broken down into smaller sprints and how to work collaboratively.” Through this training, n
ot only will teachers become comfortable with recent software and technology methodology, but students will become confident in their technology skills. This results in more interest in technology and finding other ways to better technology in the future.
This training would not have been possible without the generous support of Laserfiche, its team, and especially CSR Manager, Sarah Dao, who coordinated this training with Wilson teachers. Thank you for your commitment to this partnership and sharing with teachers the technical skills used in the industry. This partnership is a true testament on how local employers can make a difference in what is being taught in the classroom that is currently practiced in the workplace.
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Thursday, September 26, 2019
Save the Date! Internship Challenge Reception
hosted by the Mayor's Fund for Education
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Details to follow.
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Thursday, November 14, 2019
Save the Date!
aLLin Career Pledge Launch Celebration
8:00am - 9:30am
Details to follow.
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