Looking for summer engineering opportunity for high schooler

[Wesley]

I was watching a college basketball game once and they listed a freshman players' high school GPA as a 4.6. In other words, they claimed he took more A.P. classes based on a 5.0 scale, than normal 4.0 high school classes, and aced all of them. Riiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Freshman do not have that many courses under his belt. First semester? Three out of five courses?

 

[CyPlainsDrifter]

I have friends who did a program at Rockwell a couple years ago in high school and enjoyed it. I also know Quaker has done stuff with high school students in the past.

Thanks -- heard Rockwell is not doing anything with high schoolers any more, but still looking into that. I will check Quaker. Hadn't thought of that.

 

[CyPlainsDrifter]

I went through this at that age -
Kirkwood Community College - Workplace Learning Connection
I think its what wxman1 is referencing.
I worked/shadowed/interned at Rockwell and the whole process (application, interview panel, etc) I think turned out to be quite beneficial. Maybe 50/50 on finding a paid spot, or less, mine wasn't but the experience definitely helped. I got to see a lot of EE/CprE stuff, but I think the best part for me was they put me in their solder training course.
YMMV as I think it depends on what you put in and some luck on the matchup you get.

I think he is already looking into this one, and working through the school to see what's out there. I was looking for anyone that might have an opportunity outside of the ones everyone else is using, and maybe something outside the box.

 

[CyPlainsDrifter]

Maybe I'm being a ****. But at 18, he shouldn't have to rely on his dad to find him a job. Welcome to the real world son.

Gee thanks for the parenting advice (insert rolleyes icon here). Somehow, I got 3 kids successfully to adulthood without your help. Oh, and he's not 18 yet and he IS working in parallel on this.