ExTEnDED LEARning OPTiOns
In Architecture &
Construction, you’ll need
real-world experience to
MAsTER youR CRAfT.
On-site
Learning
I
n the summer of 2004, Pilot Point
High School student Kate Tickner
entered Huckabee University, a high
school internship program sponsored
by the Fort Worth architecture firm
Huckabee, Inc.
The nine students at Huckabee
University (now called Next
Generation Design Institute) formed
three teams of three in a week-long
competition for scholarship money.
“Our project was to design a high-
shadowing and Mentoring International to teach students
end, multiuse retail/housing, restaurant/
Out-of-classroom learning, or leadership skills.
park development along the coastline at
extended learning, as it’s also “Mr. Mason showed a personal
Galveston,” Tickner recalls. “We had to
called, puts you in the offices and interest in me and my future,” says
fully develop a typical housing unit and
construction sites where buildings are Chachere. “He regularly checked up
then design the retail, restaurant, and
planned and constructed. on my progress and helped me out
park amenities.”
It takes a number of different forms. financially when I went off to college.”
Tickner’s team won the competition.
Job shadowing involves going to the
Now an architecture student at Drury
workplace and following a professional internships
University in Springfield, Missouri,
through the activities of his or her day. Paid or unpaid internships can help
Tickner continues to intern in the
Many businesses around the country you land a job by giving you the chance
summer at Huckabee. “The week I spent
participate in February of each year in to show potential employers what you
at Huckabee really changed my plans
National Groundhog Job Shadow Day, can do. Gary Lopez, who works in
for the future. It helped me see that
but you can set up job shadows at any human resources with SHW Group,
architecture was definitely the route I
time of the year. an architectural firm with four offices
wanted to follow through college.”
Job shadowing can lead to in Texas, says internships provided for
mentoring relationships with high school students from the Irving
professionals in your chosen career. and Carrollton independent school
THe forT worTH-based
Mentors take students under their wing districts have helped him find some of
naTIonal assocIaTIon
and advise them on career preparation, his best hires.
academic performance, and even how “Applying for the internship
of women
to prepare for a job interview. includes an interview process,”
Tosh Chachere, a student in Lopez says, “so students gain
In consTrucTIon
Central High School in Beaumont, experience interviewing. Some of our
awards more THan $25,000 In
met mentor Chuck Mason, who runs best interns tell their friends about
a family-owned construction firm, the firm. It’s a high achievers network.
scHolarsHIps eacH Year To sTudenTs
while serving as a counselor at the When students are good, we make
In consTrucTIon-relaTed programs.
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards them a job offer once they
(RYLA), a camp sponsored by Rotary complete college.”
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