by Alex Funkhouser
DOES YOUR TEEN NEED A SUMMER GIG? – A South Florida internship program aims to enroll more than 3,000 high school students this summer. Post your questions below to be answered LIVE by Summer Youth Internship Program’s Alex Funkhouser and Donovan Lee
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by SherlockTalent
Special thanks to Alberto Carvalho (Superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools) and Richard Fain (Chairman and CEO, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.) for inspired leadership in our community. #RCLGIVES
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L-R: Alberto Carvalho, Richard Fain and Alex Funkhouser
Alberto Carvalho and team accept the check for $400,000 from Richard Fain, Chairman and CEO of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
by SherlockTalent
Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) will add four new Distinguished Academies to its existing 12 Distinguished NAF Career Academies.
M-DCPS now has 16 of the 68 nationally recognized high-quality academies, demonstrating that our career academy programs perform at the highest level in preparing students for college and careers. This national distinction is the most of any school district for delivering high-quality educational experiences for high school students.
Hialeah Gardens Senior High School added its Academy of Finance (AOF) and Academy of Hospitality (AOHT) to its other three themed Distinguished Academies, making it the first Miami-Dade high school as well as the first in the NAF network to earn this prestigious distinction for all five NAF Academy themes. The Academy of Hospitality & Tourism (AOHT) at John A. Ferguson and the Academy of Information Technology (AOIT) at William H. Turner Technical Arts Senior High School also achieved Distinguished status.
Empolyers! Register your company’s internship openings today on Miami.GetMyInterns.org
In addition, Miami-Dade has 14 Model Academies meeting the highest proportion of academic standards as evidenced on NAF’s annual assessment that allow academies to assess their progress and increase their alignment to NAF’s standards developed by national researchers. These career academies are aligned with the One Community One Goal initiative targeting major industries that impact the county’s economy.
Download the press release – Career Academies Outperform 2018
by Alex Funkhouser
Last Wednesday at the 12th Annual State of the CIO, scholarship program director Joe Robens announced that the council would be extending its scholarship program from 3 to 4 students per year in both Miami-Dada and Broward Counties. “These are our future CIOs,” remarked Robens.
To date, the program has awarded 20 scholarships to deserving high school students on their way to tertiary STEM studies.
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Scholarship Advocacy Committee – Joe Robens, Pete Koltis, and Lenny Chesal
The 4 scholarship recipients proudly display their awards with Alex Funkhouser, Lenny Chesal, Joe Robens, and Pete Koltis.
Students, teachers, parents, and the advocacy committee
by SherlockTalent
Come and learn about joining the STEM Advisory Board to prepare our youth for careers in
Technology, Engineering and Health Science.
Agenda
Breakfast and networking followed by general session and committee planning.
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by SherlockTalent
There’s nothing wrong, of course, with teenagers taking summer jobs working retail at the mall, flipping burgers at McDonald’s or preparing lattes at Starbucks.
There are, however, more challenging and more rewarding options, such as interning at a business. Thanks to the Miami-Dade Public Schools’ Summer Youth Internship program, being an intern is not just for college students anymore.
“Well for many of them, it’s an entree into the world of work,” said Lupe Ferran Diaz, the school district’s director of career and technical education. “But in addition, the networking, the fact that they do get academic credit, and if you talk to a few of these young people, they’ll tell you they’re changing the world, changing Miami.”
More than a dozen businesses and institutions are taking part in this year’s internship program, sponsoring more than 1,700 high school students from all over the county. Thanks to community partners, including the Children’s Trust, the rising seniors get paid for their work.
“They come back better-focused individuals, more mature. They know what it’s like to actually work, to save money,” Ferran Diaz said.
NBC 6 watched students at a tech training company called i2Labs design a video gaming tournament for high schools, which they plan on making a reality in the fall.
At a company called Proper John Music, interns were busy learning how to write lyrics, compose melodies, make music videos and more, all while using state-of-the-art computer programs. This is a tech-savvy generation, so what do they get out of these internships?
“A sense of the marketing world because I never had any experience when it came to that,” said Hugens Casimir of North Miami High.
D’Avian Williams, a student at Miami Lakes Tech, said, “I’m learning how to sell and fundraise to people, how to talk to people and how to manage a whole entire business.”
Some students told NBC 6 just being in a creative environment, surrounded by other students who share their interests, is inspiring.
“In my creative process, whether it’s learning how to write what I’m feeling, putting pen to paper and saying exactly what needs to be said,” said Daniel Tomassi of Mourning High, explaining what he valued most from his internship.
The internships aren’t a one-way street. The business owners benefit from the presence of the teenagers as well.
“They’ve been amazingly helpful with social media, they understand it more than my generation, and so they’ve been really helpful promoting our message, our actual content,” said John Stewart, owner of Proper John Music. “I like the idea of not just finding talent that already exists but really developing it from the ground up.”
In Stewart’s case, the target demographic skews way young for a product he’s involved with, the BattleMe rap music app. So grooming young talent helps his business and the students, too. Everybody wins.