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Students Shadow NVTC Members in Groundhog Shadow Day

Dozens of NVTC companies opened their doors to high school juniors and seniors last Friday as part of Groundhog Job Shadow Day. A partnership with Fairfax County Schools, this day gave 84 students a chance to meet professionals in variety of careers, from engineering to TV production.

Charlene Van Cappel, a senior at South Lakes in Reston, shadowed two television professionals at Cox Communications. "I like it and it's interesting," Van Cappel said about the opportunity. "We were offered different jobs to shadow and I chose this one because I'm in a TV production class at Fairfax Academy."

Van Cappel, along with Tyler Vitello, a junior from West Springfield High School, were just two of the students who received a glimpse of what a future career may look like.

"We believe in showing the students who visit how to actually do something," said Michael Bass, a producer at Cox, as he instructed Vitello on how to cut tape for Cox Local Edition, a segment that appears at the end of each hour on CNN Headline News.

This was the 11th year for Groundhog Job Shadow Day and it is part of the National Job Shadow Coalition, a national job-shadowing initiative.

Vitello and Van Cappell try their hands at editing software.

Rayshun Peng from Chantilly High School talks with NVTC TechPAC
Trustee Tim Cook from Alion Science and Technology.