A Spotlight On Student Success, Current & Future - Editorial
Next Tuesday evening, a Senior Internship Showcase will be held at Bourne High School. We will certainly be there, as our newsroom hosted one of those very students, but we thought the event might also be of interest to our readers. With the idea that some of our readers might like to attend the showcase, we wanted to spread the word about it ahead of time.
The upcoming internship showcase is the first of its kind for Bourne High School, at least as far as we know, and presents a wonderful opportunity for some role-reversal, putting our students in the driver’s seat while they teach us about what they have learned.
It is not an entirely novel concept to put young professionals in a working environment, but internships are usually thought of something college students do for credit or while on summer break. Not in Bourne, though. Here, the post-grad future of every student seems to be front-of-mind the moment they cross the high school’s threshold entering freshman year. Between Innovation Pathways, an array of Advanced Placement courses and now senior internship opportunities, Bourne’s students are essentially set up for success from the start.
Tuesday’s showcase, which opens to the public at 5 PM, will be a chance to hear from BHS seniors directly about the work they have been doing since the start of the school year. It is also a major community event, considering that many of BHS’s intern partners are local businesses—including the Enterprise.
One student attendee we will hear from at the showcase is Delaeni Bearce, who has been working in the Enterprise newsroom as a reporting intern since last fall. During her time with us, Delaeni has penned three wonderfully reported articles, conducted handfuls of real journalistic interviews and hopefully had a lot of fun learning the ropes along the way.
In an email earlier this week to Ann-Marie Strode, the incredibly hard-working teacher and internship coordinator behind these efforts, we wrote that Delaeni is “chock full of potential” and that we “have faith that the journalism industry is in good hands if young people like Delaeni are its future.” We meant every word, but would like to expand our sentiments to include all of Bourne’s senior interns and students in whatever industry they go into—because if Bourne’s students are our future, then we can rest our heads a bit easier tonight, knowing that we are all in good hands.