These are pretty special kids, not average teenagers. For their level, they did things that were pretty spectacular. Recruitment for mentors for the summer of 2000 began Monday. The ASE Program places 175 to 200 talented high school students with mentors for eight-week summer apprenticeships. More than 1,600 students have participated in the program since 1990.
Apprentices complete valuable work.
They may help get a languishing project up to speed, make meaningful contributions to a research project, or learn a new computer program and help train others to use it. Hart describes the typical apprentice. They're super excited, aggressive and intelligent to the point that even though they're sophomores and juniors in high school, I would surely have thought they were in their junior or senior year of college. They know stuff that I think is rare to find even in college students. Many apprentices return to mentoring organizations in subsequent summers or become full-time employment after college, so many companies regard the program as a recruitment and training tool.