To All, I should have clarified a couple of points about my initial internship program thoughts: 1. This would have to happen during the summer and, realistically, I am looking at summer 2008 to try this out. 2. I would not want to restrict the internships to only programming positions; a broad technical internship experience would be ideal. 3. International students present a summer housing challenge, so I'm not sure how that can be addressed. Thanks! Ted Matthias Academic Computing Coordinator Computer Science Teacher The Williston Northampton School 19 Payson Ave. Easthampton, MA 01027 Office: 413-529-3334 (not in summer) Mobile: 413-219-8905 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Theo Matthias <theo.matthias at gmail.com> Date: Jul 31, 2007 1:58 PM Subject: Feeler: Summer Internship for HS Computer Science Students? To: hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net Greetings! For the last several years I been thinking about trying to find some summer internship positions for my best and brightest high school Computer Science students. This is a feeler to determine whether someone out there mind be interested in kicking this around. The Williston Northampton School in Easthampton, MA is a private co-educational day and boarding school that attracts accomplished students from around the world. I teach computer programming classes to 9th grade through post-graduate level students. Our programming focuses on the use of VB.NET and Java 5.0. The beginning class utilizes VB.NET to acquaint students with the OOP environment using visual tools. The intermediate and advanced students are taught programming in Java 5.0 using the educationally-oriented BlueJ IDE. The advanced class is a full year AP-level course and students are required to take the AP Computer Science test from the College Board at the end of the year. Students who complete all three of my classes are able to design and code modest VB.NET and Java projects. Those who excel in the AP Computer Science class can create functional specifications and, from them, design, code, and test (unit testing, integration testing, and regression testing) Java 5.0applications. Typically, the students that hang-in there for the AP level also have other technical skills they have acquired on their own like Flash, Dreamweaver, etc. So it occurred to me that a summer internship might foster the continued growth of these students. I'm not sure how to start the ball rolling on this, so if you have any suggestions, please contact me via email. Thanks! Ted Matthias Academic Computing Coordinator Computer Science Teacher The Williston Northampton School 19 Payson Ave. Easthampton, MA 01027 Office: 413-529-3334 (not in summer) Mobile: 413-219-8905 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20070731/9bb8d4fa/attachment-0005.html