community partnerships
Building more than a résumé
When the small staff of computer backup data company 3X Systems brings a high school intern on board, they expect a lot from that person. Like help improving their customer service, formal research that may inform their future business decisions, even programming that will help improve the quality of their products.
“But only if the student [...]
When in Rome
A group of Metro students is passing around a couple of sketchbooks filled with pencil drawings of people, pasted-in maps, lists, thoughts and watercolor images of the city of Rome one day after school. Created by architecture students from Ohio State University, the journals present an alternative way for the high school students to think [...]
Teaching, redefined
Neal Bluel joined the Metro staff this year. From the start, his job didn’t look like that of the average high school science teacher, but that’s what he was looking for. A transplant from Missouri who arrived in Columbus when his wife took a job managing the Waterman Dairy Farm, he spent time researching places [...]
