1. QUEST Student Internship Program
An opportunity for you to explore a career!

2. Are you doing these things to prepare for your future career now?
Making good grades in rigorous courses
Choosing and applying to colleges
Talking to people in the careers in which you are interested
Experiencing some of your careers of interest

3. Benefits of an Internship include:
Finding out about the day-to-day routine of a career
Trying out an adult role
Talking with people with first hand knowledge of a career

4. Benefits of an Internship include:
Learning about other careers
Enhancing your resume while earning class credit

5. Some of the career areas you can explore:
Architecture and Design
Education
Fine Arts and Media
Journalism
Law
Medicine (human and animal)
Politics and Government
Science

6. The QUEST Student Internship Program
How does it work?
Students spend hours per week for about 15 weeks in an unpaid internship.
The internship counts as the last period of the school day—most students go three days a week to their internship for 2 ½ to 3 hours at a time.
Students must provide their own transportation and have both car and health insurance.

7. So how do you register?
See your Gifted Contact Teacher for an application.
Return the completed application, with parent signatures, to the Gifted Contact Teacher.

8. So how do you register?
Your school will screen applicants and select those who qualify.
In the spring, the county internship teachers will return to your school to interview you and to begin the placement process.