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The White Falcon
March 28, 1980
Our future professionals
Did you have an idea of what you
wanted to do in life during your
high school years, but never got co-
operation towards your desire for
training in order to "try the job on
for size?"
The Keflavik NATO Base is small
in comparison with the cities and
towns from which most of us grew up.
Likewise, the base high school is
small; not to mean courses are lim-
ited! In fact, one of the exciting
opportunities open to high school
students is the Cooperative Work Ex-
perience program (CWE). The CWE
program helps the student to pick a
career.
When a student has an idea about
the career he intends to pursue af-
ter high school, he would like to
experience it before investing con-
siderable time and expense in train-
ing beyond high school. At A.T. Ma-
han the students talk to Mrs. Sharon
Porter.
Mrs. Porter and a given student
discuss the student's career goals
and future plans first, then she
gives them an interest, or aptitude
test meant to determine suitability
for the chosen field of endeavor.
Tryit, yoip
After conferences with the stud-
ent, Mrs. Porter turns to community
resources personnel with the request
they provide on-the-job training.
She matches the student's job pref-
erences
community
hours a
with those members of
, and arranges for
school day the student
the
two
can
spend on that job. Thus the student
has that opportunity to experience,
first hand, the realities of their
chosen profession.
The CWE program would be impos-
sible without the cooperation of
community supervisors who are will-
ing to assume responsibility for
training these youngsters. They re-
ceive no extra pay for taking on
these additional tasks. It clearly
displays their belief that young
people are worth the extra effort.
More than 15 high school students
are employed by the CWE program at
present. These part-time employees
work at the Hospital, AFRTS, the
Fuels Lab, Supply and at many other
commands willing to supervise them.
Not only are the A.T. Mahan high
school students greatful for the op-
portunity to 'taste' the work they
may end up making a career doing,
but their assistance to the command,
in itself, is a benefit as well.
They become useful members of the
commands to which they are assigned.
Story by
Mrs. Sharon Porter
Photos by J03 David Guise
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