HS students build valuable skills & professional networks
After completing the core Entrepreneurship classes, you and other high school students at TPZ have the opportunity to engage in work-based learning experiences that provide you the opportunity to build skills and gain qualifications while you support a local business.
Consult
During Consult, you will build career-readiness skills as you and other students serve as consultants for industry partners in the Boston area. Engaging in rigorous collaborative activities, client site visits, and group reflection, you’ll practice and develop communication, growth mindset, teamwork, and STEAM agency while solving an authentic social media-focused problems for your team’s client. At the conclusion of Consult, your team will craft and present a social media campaign strategy for the external partner. Recent Consult clients include Elaine Construction and Union Capital.
Intern
During this program, you’ll apply for, participate in, and develop self-management, relationship skills, and growth mindset throughout an internship internally with TPZ staff or with an external business. You’ll receive support in applying for internships, practicing for interviews, and will have access to ongoing cohort-based and individual opportunities for meaning-making and reflection throughout the internship. Following your internship, you’ll complete an updated resume capturing the key tasks and responsibilities from your internship experience, and will present a short slide deck on what you’ve done and learned throughout the program. In addition to TPZ’s marketing, research, and STEAM departments, internship sites include the Sasaki Foundation, the Leah Project, and Bloomberg Arts.