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TechApprentice is a partnership of: BATEC, TechBoston/Boston Public Schools (BPS), Boston Private Industry Council (PIC) and The BPS Office of Instructional and Information Technology (OIIT)

IF YOU ARE AN EMPLOYER and want to hire a student, download an internship recruitment form.

IF YOU ARE A STUDENT, who wants to be considered for this opportunity, you must fill out the Summer 2010 Tech Apprentice Application and include a resume. The deadline to apply is Monday, April 12, 2010. You can download a template to use in preparing your resume.

The Tech Apprentice Program is a seven-week internship opportunity at local companies for technology skilled high school juniors & seniors from Boston and the Metro Boston area. These talented high school students are considering pursuing IT majors in college and they need a work-based experience to focus their efforts and understand the options available to them in the high tech arena. The internship program runs for seven weeks in the summer from July 6 through August 20, 2010. Prior to the program start date, students participate in a mandatory business etiquette orientation. Students are paid $10/hour for 35 hours/week.

Since its pilot summer of 2006, over 50 Boston-area companies have participated and over 200 high school students have been successfully placed in challenging IT internships. Tech Apprentices work across a diverse number of industries: financial services, healthcare, non-profit, higher education, media and information technology. Several students worked on desktop support and helpdesk teams; others on web development teams; another talented student created an Apache web service front end with a MySQL backend database. From software programmers to web designers and videographers, hundreds of talented Boston Public School students have spent their summers as Tech Apprentices--contributing their talents and learning new skills that could be very helpful to them in their future endeavors in the IT industry.

For more information, please contact:

Cecilia Oyediran
TechBoston Employer Organizer
Boston Private Industry Council
Email: cecilia.oyediran @ bostonpic.org
Phone: 617.488.1328 or 617-799-4264