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Yeah . Yeah .

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Mhm

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Yeah .

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An internship with the U . S . Army

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Corps of Engineers , Middle East

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District in Winchester Virginia is more

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than just a chance to learn an

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invaluable experience in some cases a

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concept students on a continuous

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learning path that may lead to a

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lifelong career in stem our goal for

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the internship program is to connect

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with high school students that are

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interested in staff , foster that

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interest to engage with them during the

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summer while they're in college in

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pursuing a career in engineering or

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architecture or project management and

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to them because of their interest in

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pursuing a full time career , connect

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with them in the DNA apprentice program

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after they graduate . So I first came

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to town in the Middle East district um

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in the spring of 2019 as a high school

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intern . I was a lot of great at the

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time , I heard about this great program

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where I'm essentially able to shadow

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engineers within the office and see

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what they do um for their career and

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how they actually spend their day . Uh

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So I was able to successfully complete

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that actually through the experience ,

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I've decided that engineering was the

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right choice for me to measure during

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college . So uh skip forward two years

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later , uh they team offers , some are

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higher internships essentially where

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you can come in as a college student

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and they pay you to help them do work

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and work on actual project . Great to

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see women in roles of leadership people

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who have just worked really , really

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hard and it's such an inspiration to me

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as a college student hoping to come

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into this field in the next couple of

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our high school in turn to receive

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exposure to a professional workplace

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and the technical skills and knowledge

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needed for a career in engineering .

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Our summer hires are fully paid federal

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employees , working with a world class

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engineering team . All my civil

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engineering students out there if you

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want to get some experience ,

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especially international experience ,

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the Army Corps of Engineers is a great

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place to be because this is a famous

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organization , worldwide federal , so

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you have beautiful benefit package ,

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beautiful salary and stuff like that ,

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you're very comfortable to take very

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good care . Actually found out about it

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through a career fair , so I put my

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resume up on the career fair during the

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school year and mr Rainey contacted me .

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So that's how I found out about the

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internship program , it's different

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from being in the classroom , so

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getting hands on experience is really

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valuable . I definitely didn't

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realize that Army Corps was doing

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anything overseas so um to be able to

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work at this office and work on things

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other than in our country has been

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really interesting . Mhm .

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Yeah , mm