Speaker: Vernelle Shaw, Former Internship Coordinator, Gaithersburg High School (MCPS)
Introduce yourself and tell us who you are, where you are (city /county and state), and position at your school.
Vernelle Shaw: My name is Vernelle Shaw, and I am the former Internship Coordinator for Gaithersburg High School, um in Gaithersburg Maryland, and Gaithersburg is part of the Montgomery County Public School Systems.
Tell us about your experience woring with E Industries and what did you think about the projects provided to the students as interns.
Vernelle Shaw: Gaithersburg had a successful partnership with the E Industries. We had intern to participated in their formal internship program. In most cases everything was virtual, the students were able to meet online with their supervisor Brian, and with the other interns in the program that came from another school in the county as well. The students who interned there were either students who were in our Information Technology program, we had students in our Business Management and Finance program. We also had students who were just interested in an opportunity and I wasn't exactly sure which direction they wanted to go in, but the internship gave them the opportunity to be able to learn. They did some projects that were very realistic things that they were working on that were you know, tangible, able to be used in the and I just think they got a very realistic experience of what it would be like to work for a company in that industry.
Would you recommend other schools to collaborate with E Industries to provide internships to their students and if so, why?
Vernelle Shaw: I would certainly recommend that other schools partner with E Industries as well and provide interns. I do believe that my students got a very realistic experience, whether it was good feedback or critical feedback, things that they needed to work on, they were able to work on their, not only hard skills but also the soft skills. And in the end, the interns who, you know, were able to complete the program definitely had a successful run, and they also admitted that they truly learned a lot.
