ExTEnDED LEARning OPTiOns
Out
of this
World
To sTART a career in Transportation, Distribution
summer Experience
& Logistics, move learning to the world of work.
Some excellent extended learning
experiences take place when school is
out. The Texas Summer Transportation
D
o you want to explore travel into unique opportunities may change, based
Institute, for example, offers students the
outer space? Got some cargo you’d on NASA’s goals and objectives,” says
opportunity for summertime learning
like shipped to the International Margaret Baguio, education and outreach
with experienced industry professionals.
Space Station? Need help with a science coordinator for TSGC, “we have, in the
“The purpose,” says Debbie Jasek,
experiment on weightlessness? past, sponsored high school student
associate research specialist for the Texas
All these activities are possible as part experiments on the space shuttle and the
Transportation Institute, “is to expose
of “extended learning”—experiences that International Space Station.”
students to careers in transportation,
take education beyond the walls of the
as well as explore and enhance science,
classroom and school. These opportunities Military Options
technology, and leadership skills that are
are offered by the Texas Space Grant Because every branch of the military
needed for these careers.”
Consortium (TSGC), an education and depends heavily on its Transportation,
The most rewarding thing about the
research partnership of 35 universities, Distribution & Logistics experts, high
program, adds Jasek, is “getting to meet
industrial organizations, nonprofit school military organizations such as the
and talk to practicing professionals in the
organizations, and government agencies Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
workplace and find out what they really
funded by the National Aeronautics and (JROTC) or the Civil Air Patrol (CAP)
do.” Past institutes have featured experts
Space Administration (NASA). program are particularly good ways to
from Southwest Airlines, Dallas Area
TSGC works with NASA to encourage get experience in this cluster. In the Naval
Rapid Transit (DART), the Coast Guard,
public interest in space. “Although JROTC, for example, students learn
and other organizations.
about ship construction and maritime
Another valuable summer program
navigation, and in the CAP Cadet
is available through Automotive Youth
Program, students explore the principles of
Educational Systems (AYES). “The AYES
aviation and aerospace flight.
program provides internships at local
dealerships during the summer between
the junior and senior year of high school,”
four of THe
says Donna McKethan, director of career
and technical education at the Waco
busIesT 10
Independent School District. “That
internship usually continues into the senior
u.s. porTs are locaTed
school year.”
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