LINK is Leading Internships for New Knowledge
The Program at a Glance
Animas High School is creating a community of life-long learners. As a college preparatory school, students are supported in setting long-term personal, scholastic and professional goals. In their junior year, students are paired for three weeks with professionals who provide real world experience in their fields. Students complete academically rigorous projects at their internship sites, culminating in a LINK Exhibition.
Who?
Juniors from AHS paired with mentors who are professionals in their fields
What?
A three-week long internship that promotes community involvement and connects classroom learning to the world outside our walls
Where?
Businesses and organizations in Durango and beyond
When?
March 2-20, 2015
Why?
LINK helps students:
LINK Across the Map
AHS students have interned alongside lawyers, artists, medical professionals, scientists, engineers, activists, musicians, marketing professionals, business owners and more in our community and beyond. Through LINK, our students have effected positive change in communities across our country and in several other nations too, including Costa Rica, Malawi and Thailand.
The Program at a Glance
Animas High School is creating a community of life-long learners. As a college preparatory school, students are supported in setting long-term personal, scholastic and professional goals. In their junior year, students are paired for three weeks with professionals who provide real world experience in their fields. Students complete academically rigorous projects at their internship sites, culminating in a LINK Exhibition.
Who?
Juniors from AHS paired with mentors who are professionals in their fields
What?
A three-week long internship that promotes community involvement and connects classroom learning to the world outside our walls
Where?
Businesses and organizations in Durango and beyond
When?
March 2-20, 2015
Why?
LINK helps students:
- thrive in a professional setting
- refine college and career goals
- use what they learn in our classrooms
- make positive contributions to our community
- develop a strong sense of self
LINK Across the Map
AHS students have interned alongside lawyers, artists, medical professionals, scientists, engineers, activists, musicians, marketing professionals, business owners and more in our community and beyond. Through LINK, our students have effected positive change in communities across our country and in several other nations too, including Costa Rica, Malawi and Thailand.