ASE is currently recruiting mentors in the Coos Bay area for the summer 2000 program. Statewide, 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. Through the ASE Program, employers fill available positions, educate talented students about their mission and train the workforce of the future.