Would tours/shadowing be helpful to a hs student?

lkf725
Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:59:58 +0000

Thanks soozievt and mtpaper! Our school doesn’t do that day-off-to-shadow thing, but we do have a program where students can apply for an internship where they spend one day per month on a job site. She will be applying for that next year. My son participated in that program for engineering and found it to be very helpful in the decision-making process.

Even though it would be short, I would think visiting that company for a day might be helpful. What do you think she might see in the course of a day? Do they draw, build models, meet with clients, do paperwork, etc?