Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Big Picture High School Fresno Intern Gets Career Experience

While many of his high school classmates have their noses deep in textbooks, 16-year-old Aaron Mosby gets to spend some of his class time at Fresno’s Chaffee Zoo.

But Aaron isn’t playing hooky — he’s in an off-campus internship designed to give him real-world career experience. It’s part of his curriculum at Big Picture High School, a Fresno charter school that opened this year. Aaron is one of a growing number of high school students learning outside of the classroom in an unpaid internship and getting class credit for it.

To read more of this Fresno Bee article click here!

Posted: May 9, 2010
Article by Tracy Correa