The ILC has a strong focus on leaving to learn so that students can:
  • Pursue individual interests
  • Be exposed to new ideas, interests, career possibilities
  • Meet new people in our community
  • Build workplace and technical skills with mentor guidance
Internships build valuable professional skills, including communication, self-advocacy and the ability to effectively work with other people

“The more prepared a student is when they enter college, the easier of a time they will have adjusting to the rigors of college-level academics as well as social pressures,” he says. “In higher education, we try to do everything we can to support students in their perseverance toward degree completion and social connectedness. From my experience, students who were involved in internships during high school have a fairly distinct head start.”

-- Joe Nannini, College of Education and Human Development at the University of Nevada — Reno

Source: https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/articles/the-rise-of-high-school-internships

Be a Mentor!

“Being connected to the ILC for internships is incredible! Showing and inspiring teens to consider ECE (early childhood education) as a sector, to fall in love with children and/or teaching and in some cases, see a very real career possibility right here in their home town after graduation is so wonderful! Interns can be incredibly helpful for a classroom, the children WANT to connect with them and with an engaged intern, their presence provides support and relief to the teachers in the room.

-ILC Mentor