P ayson High School STC Site has approximately seventy secondary students involved in internships and apprenticeships, and plans are underway with Zion's Bank to increase the number of interns. Allocation of career awareness field trip money targeted to these grades will safe-guard workplace awareness as a component of the district curriculum benchmarks. The career field trip site provides students with occupational speakers and career exposure. Students evaluate, write and speak about the careers and skills they experienced at the site. In the middle schools, a pilot shadow experience allows students to spend several hours at a work site.
Students have the opportunity to choose a work site related to their perceived career interest.
A questionnaire has been developed to help evaluate the usefulness of the shadow experiences. Several businesses participate in the annual school career fair. Students participate in work-based learning starting at the 11 th or 12 th grade level. Provo City School District places over 500 students a year in the work based learning programs. These include paid and non-paid experiences and training.