The Roseville Joint Union High School District provides internships to any students in a CTE pathway to enroll in each semester. The CTE pathway also comes with benefits like earning college credits. According to Work Based Learning Coordinator Terri Griffin, the program must be preceded by the CTE program.

“We have a dual-enrolled internship program meaning that the students are actually earning college credit while they are taking our internship class. Once students complete two years of their CTE pathway here at Roseville High School they can apply for the internship program, usually 4th-period some are 1st period,” Griffin said.

Griffin believes the internship program provides many benefits for students. One of those benefits being that the internship program connects students with people which later brings them back.

“You’re going to make some amazing connections. We have about 80 internship openings now and I can tell you that a lot of our employers are bringing back those college students for paid internships during the summer,” Griffin said, “The city of Roseville has a lot of openings for students right after high school, after a 2 year degree and as well as a 4 year degree, so they’re bringing a lot of our students back.” 

Senior Jaycen Acevez, a student currently enrolled in an internship, believes that the school could do a better job at promoting the program during the student’s course selection

“At my internship, I’m an intern for Roseville Electric, which is a lineman. I think nobody knows about it because they don’t really show it in the course plan when you’re choosing your courses,” Aceves said, “They don’t really have a tree that says that if you do 2 years of engineering class you can do an internship. So I feel like that’s why it’s kind of hidden.”

Despite some limiting factors, Griffin believes that more students should consider the program. Although some sports and other jobs could get in the way, she believes that the benefits are worth the extra work.

“Our concern is we have a lot of students that need to work in the afternoon. It doesn’t work for everybody, if they’re an athlete it’s rough. They need to make sure that they are applying for an internship that they’re available for,” Griffin said, “So most of our students are going to the 4th-period internship class once a week. It’s right here at IHS and they’re earning college credit and then they go out during 3rd period just twice a week to their internship. So it’s the same amount of hours as a regular class, we just need them to know that.”