Seniors shadow careers at COOL Week
Seniors participated in COOL Week Feb. 18-22. Check back to read feature stories on what students did.
Kunal Gupta
He toured facilities containing Dell’s technology. The servers- the key to the company. He even got to learn how they work. During COOL Week, although he didn’t shadow anyone, senior Kunal Gupta toured Dell and its facilities and was told what Dell actually does. “We got to look at how they build them and implement them,” Gupta said. “We got to see a mobile data center which was a portable...
Sofi Suerkan
Dogs in the office? This could only be paradise. Senior Sophia Suerkan job shadowed at Zynga, a game developer company, for a day during COOL Week. She was there from about 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. During her day there, Suerkan job shadowed all sorts of people. The other students and she walked around and got to sit in on people doing their normal, everyday jobs. Suerkan spent a lot of time going around the...
Ryan Anderson
When thinking of a company where cubicles are shunned, where open format board meetings and where cooperation between employees is of the utmost importance, a first guess might point to Silicon Valley. However, senior Ryan Anderson was able to experience the advantages of working in an innovative company first hand in Round Rock when he visited Dell along with other Leander ISD students for COOL Week. Anderson...
Jennifer Walker
As fresh booklets flew through the machines, a group of seniors walked around the printing facilities at Community Impact Newspaper. Senior Jennifer Walker shadowed graphic designers at Community Impact Newspaper during COOL Week. “I’ve wanted to go into graphic design since I was in fifth grade,” Walker said. “I knew I wanted to shadow a graphic designer for COOL Week.” Jennifer got...
Myrah Sheriff
Senior Myrah Sheriff visited the Dell Children’s Hearing Center during COOL Week. When she was there she stood in on therapy sessions and got to see doctors, nurses and therapists give aid to deaf children. “I wanted [to be in a career center] that was smaller,” Sheriff Said. “In this one, we actually got to interact with the therapy and be in the therapy sessions with kids so it was mo...
Landon Palmer
Colorful codes and algorithms danced across the screen in front of him as he tried desperately to understand what they meant. People that love learning about the same things he does stand next to them, as they listen to experts explain what each code meant, and how they could apply them to the real world to create a healthy, and safe-living society. Senior Landon Palmer shadowed a computer sci...
Bo Deng
At the workplace, the hours drag on. Meetings are a staple of working here. So are the team projects where coworkers depend on each other for help. Not so ordinary is the high schooler shadowing them around. Senior Bo Deng spent Feb. 19-22 shadowing at Acxiom, a software and data company that offers services to a variety of different industries. Deng’s experience was part of COOL week, a work-based pr...
Alexandra Spears
She fixed her eyes on the brand new bulletin board covered with police officer patches, a badge and a list of FBI’s 10 most-wanted fugitives. It also held her very own identification tag that read: Alexandra Spears, AG Criminal Investigator. Last week, senior Alexandra Spears shadowed Chief Paul Taylor of Jonestown Police Department as part of LISD’s Career Opportunities On Location Week. COOL...
Kyle Legg
Senior Kyle Legg interned at the National Weather Service on Feb. 20 and at the House of Representatives Feb. 21-22 for the LISD Career Opportunities On Location Week. He got the chance to explore his interests in meteorology and politics in a hands-on experience, shadowing the employees and attending meetings. “The whole point of COOL week is just trying to figure out what you want to do,” Legg...
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