One of Portland’s hottest technology firms has teamed up with Portland Workforce Alliance, Worksystems and Portland Public Schools to offer career days and paid summer internships to Portland high school students.
Nearly 150 Portland-area high school students participated in the ACE Mentor Program of Oregon this year. Here’s a sampler of what local seniors had to say in a recent national survey about their experience: 70% of seniors felt that ACE
We caught up recently with Benson High School alumna Elizabeth Ma, who has worked part-time for Blount International this year as part of Oregon’s Youth Apprenticeship Training Program.
We asked a Portland student recently to pick her favorite part of the new PACE Mentorship Program. Was it framing walls? Wiring a switch? Cutting a metal air vent?
When we want to explain the value of career days, we just hand the microphone over to students who have attended them. Here’s a sampler of what they have said this year.
