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Eight FWISD Students to Join Lockheed Martin High School Internship Program
Eight rising seniors from the Fort Worth ISD are joining the Lockheed Martin High School Internship Program for the 2018-2019 year.
The students were among 47 incoming seniors from the Arlington, Crowley, Fort Worth and Keller school districts recognized at a Lockheed Martin signing event, Monday, July 23. The program also recognized students who started as high school interns in 2014, who have been offered jobs with the company upon graduating college next year.
This year’s high school interns will work weekly August 2018- May 2019 in fields including quality, production operations, IT and engineering and technology, serving in a variety of roles, including but not limited to quality control, business analysis, integration and testing, software engineering, electronics engineering and aeronautical engineering.
The Fort Worth ISD students joining this 2018-2019 Lockheed Martin High School Internship class include:
Benbrook Middle/ High School: Payton Lucas, Connor MacAdam, and Mason Thielvoldt;
Western Hills High School: Lessly Ariza;
Young Men’s Leadership Academy: Matthew Burgos;
Young Women’s Leadership Academy: Jasmine Castaneda, Mia Flores and Lezly Sierra.
Lockheed Martin’s High School Internship Program is a partnership with Project Lead the Way that originated in 2014 with the goal of high school students beginning an internship with the company that continues through their college years and ultimately concludes with the student becoming a full-time engineer.
“Signing Day is an exciting milestone for our Project Lead The Way students, and really the culmination of their PLTW experience,” said Dr. Vince Bertram PLTW president and chief executive officer. “We’re grateful for this partnership with Lockheed Martin that is further providing students with real-world learning experiences and connecting them to exciting career possibilities. What a tremendous opportunity for these students.”
Norman Robbins, a Fort Worth ISD Board of Education trustee who had a 30-year community relations career with Lockheed Martin, calls the internship program “a wonderful program which pays huge dividends for our students.” He said he’s encouraged that this is a tremendous advantage for Fort Worth ISD students.
“I think that this is the finest opportunity that we could possibly provide our students,” Mr. Robbins said. “By participating in this internship program, they actually receive a leg up over all their peers and, in many cases, they will gain actual engineering knowledge.
“Not only does it provide them with excellent knowledge, but it provides them with an opportunity figure out what it’s like to work in a large organization.”
The Signing Day event included remarks from Lockheed Martin and Project Lead the Way officials.
This year marks the first year the Lockheed Martin High School Internship Program is expanding to three area school districts. Originally launched with five students at Arlington ISD, the program currently has more than 60 student interns in addition to the nearly 50 interns joining the program this August. According to Lockheed Martin officials, more than 85 percent of the current interns are continuing to pursue STEM degrees to date.
Students were encouraged to apply for the highly sought-after internship during the previous school year.
Interns from Fort Worth will serve as ambassadors to incoming juniors within the District who look to apply for the program next year.
All PLTW (Project Lead the Way) students can apply for the internship program. PLTW is an educational organization that provides curriculum, instruction, and professional development around engineering, biomedical sciences and computer science. PLTW is nationally-recognized, and partners with Fortune 500 companies, like Lockheed Martin, to provide teachers and students with powerful curriculum and opportunities outside of the classroom. The high schools that employ the PLTW Engineering curriculum are Diamond Hill-Jarvis, Western Hills, Benbrook, YMLA and YWLA.
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