Selma Unified students gain valuable work experience through VROP summer internship

SELMA, Calif. (KFSN) -- When the Selma-Kingsburg-Fowler County Sanitation District crews fired up the motortruck this summer, they had an other idiosyncratic riding shotgun.

Selma High soon-to-be elder Frankie Alvarez-Alvarado worked alongside experts arsenic a paid intern done the Valley Regional Occupational Program.

He was capable to shadiness antithetic positions wrong the Sanitation District, including operations, engineering, lab, medication and sewer maintenance.

He said his favourite portion was being successful the motortruck and connected the streets.

"It was the astir absorbing due to the fact that you get to spell places, you announcement that there's mode much manholes than you thought, and wherever each the stations are, and what they bash that you ne'er noticed before," Frankie said.

Frankie is 1 of dozens of students who took portion successful a summertime internship.

Each is matched with companies that align with their acquisition pathway. For Frankie, that was plan and engineering.

Every pupil had to make a resume and interrogation with radical similar General Manager Veronica Cantu Cazares.

She says it's the seventh twelvemonth they've worked with VROP interns, and it helps exposure students to aboriginal careers.

"They tin beryllium an operator, and that's the idiosyncratic who operates a plant. They tin adjacent beryllium an admin. We person an accountant, we person a wide manager, we person quality resources. There's a plethora of careers that they tin avail themselves to that don't needfully necessitate a degree," Cantu Cazares said.

For Frankie, done this experience, helium created his archetypal resume, had his archetypal occupation interrogation and held his archetypal occupation -- each invaluable skills that volition assistance him scope his extremity of 1 time becoming a mechanical oregon civilian engineer.

"Everything that applies to getting a job, I got from here," Frankie said.

Because helium worked astatine the sanitation district, he'll deliberation doubly astir what goes down the drain.

"Now I cognize however it works. I volition ever beryllium much mindful astir it. I'll astir apt ne'er hide this," Frankie said.

After their 80 hours were complete, students presented what they learned.

They shared with the wastewater committee each of the details of their experiences and the skills they built during their internship.

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