Newburyport High School offers both internship and work study programs. These programs allow students to explore career aspirations, as well as to gain work experience. Internships and work study opportunities are set up throughout the community and encompass several career areas.

The program connects business and education, as well as unites classroom instruction with supervised internships outside of the school curriculum that allows students to better understand the relevant skills and knowledge needed for success in today's careers and higher education.

School to Career provides a system that looks to employers to articulate the skills needed for success and for the employers to work with educators to ensure students graduate with relevant skills and knowledge. The twenty-first century demands academic as well as occupational mastery. Today, many high school students end their educational years without mastering the thinking, teamwork, and problem-solving skills needed to succeed in a workplace setting."

Corporate Benefits

When businesses invest in internships, they are investing in futures. It's a great way to give back to the community. By supporting internships for NHS students, businesses can take a direct role in schools:

• By offering educational enhancements and a bridge to the business and professional world for students

• By helping to shape a new generation of worldly, diverse, highly-trained and versatile professionals

• By utilizing temporary employees during critical periods

• By selecting from knowledgeable students

• By recruiting future employees

• By contributing to public school education

• By helping create a motivated, educated workforce

Course Objectives

• To gain experience in the work force

• To become more informed about possible career choices

• To acquire the skills to learn how to be more independent

• To prepare them for the increased responsibilities they will face after high school

• To gain an understanding of the challenges of the world of work

• To gain an understanding regarding the need for organization and deadlines

Typical Newburyport High School Internship

• The Newburyport Education Business Coalition and the School to Career Counselor at Newburyport High School helps students find internship placements in and around the Newburyport area.

• The Internship class lasts 17 to 18 weeks, after students spend 3 days of orientation with the School to Career Counselor.

• Internships are unpaid

• Provides the intern with a workplace supervisor who will guide the student through the work experience

• Offers the intern opportunities to learn about many aspects of the business

• Challenges the intern to think and solve problems

• Enhances the work experience with professional development seminars or meetings

• Utilizes skills learned in special Academy courses, as well as specific knowledge of the industry and its components

• Includes pre-internship preparation activities and evaluations connected to student work experiences

• Weekly time sheets help the student learn responsibility in a real world setting