What is the role of an Intern?
The Executive Internship Program enables high school students to gain experience and expertise in particular professions. Selected students spend 10-15 hours per week with their sponsors and undertake activities that provide comprehensive views of organizations that focus on the sponsors’ professional roles, responsibilities, and functions. Students become knowledgeable about the organization’s long range company priorities and how decisions are made about those priorities. Students learn to seek insight into the qualities, skills and knowledge that help professionals perform effectively. The serious educational nature of EIP requires students to fulfill academically oriented assignments, participate in seminars, demonstrate and reflect upon learning, and participate in self and program evaluations. What is the role of the Sponsor? Sponsors provide students an unpaid internship experience which is broadly educational in scope, supportive of the program’s goals and purpose, and directed
