DO YOU EVER LOOK UP AT THE SKY AND WONDER WHAT IT TAKES TO BUILD AN AIRPLANE THAT CAN TRAVEL MORE THAN 500 MILES PER HOUR?
There is an amazing opportunity for high school students that can help you find out!
Each summer, around 100 high school students get paid to learn how to use power tools, tour Boeing factories, build relationships with instructors and other students, and explore a career in manufacturing through the Manufacturing Student Development Program hosted by The Boeing Company.
“ The most fun part is getting to be hands on and seeing how Boeing runs,” said Kadem Patze, a Core Plus Aerospace graduate from Meadowdale High School in Lynnwood, Washington and a 2022 Student Development
Program participant.“ It’ s great to be with a team of awesome people and instructors. It’ s a cool environment.”
After finishing the program, Kadem was offered, and accepted, a job as an aircraft structures mechanic at Boeing’ s Everett factory.
While high school and career plans may feel a long way off, the Student Development Program is something to keep on your radar.
High school students accepted into the program spend part of their summer inside Boeing factories in Everett, Renton, and Auburn. These buildings are enormous. The Boeing factory in Everett is the largest building in the world, by volume. Disneyland could fit on site with room to spare!
This isn’ t a“ watch and learn” experience. Students learn to use the same tools that Boeing workers use every day to build planes that fly people all over the world. Students learn by doing and have something to show when they complete a project.
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