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NVTC Member Companies Provide Students with First-Hand Tech Job Experience on Job Shadow Day

Fifteen NVTC member companies, including several start-ups, participated in the 10th Annual Groundhog Job Shadow Day on March 28 to provide local high school students with first-hand exposure to the high-tech workplace. The goal of Job Shadow Day is to provide students with one day of onsite job experience to inspire new academic and career choices, and to help employers gain new awareness of the potential talent of the workforce of the future from local high schools and to assist the students in career planning.

NVTC and The Entrepreneur Center @NVTC, in conjunction with Fairfax County Public Schools, matched more than 115 students from Alexandria, Arlington and Fairfax schools with businesses from across Northern Virginia. The Entrepreneur Center arranged Job Shadow opportunities at start-ups and other enterprises to provide students with the opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship.

NVTC thanks following the NVTC members that participated in the 2008 Job Shadow Day

Caroline Boulanger of Chantilly High School and Steve Furrey of Catapult


Bob Thompson of LeapFrog Solutions, Inc., and Arjun Patel of Chantilly High School

• Boeing S & SI Mission Systems
• CACI International Inc
• Catapult Consultants
• Cisco
• Conflicts Authority
• Deloitte
• GTSI
• LeapFrog Solutions, Inc.
• Noblis
• Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC)
• Project Performance Corporation
• SI International
• The Rainfield Group
• Turtle Wings
• Verizon Multimedia

Several of the companies and organizations (both NVTC members and non-members) that participated in Job Shadow Day also have received services from or been involved with The Entrepreneur Center @NVTC including

• Catapult Consultants
• Conflicts Authority
• LeapFrog Solutions, Inc
• Mpowerplayer
• NVCC
• Turtle Wings

Each of the student participants shadowed employees at a company that he or she indicated an interest-in terms of a future profession. "I want to major in accounting and wanted to understand what it is like to work in a finance company," said Caroline Boulanger of Chantilly High School, who shadowed at Catapult Consultants. After the experience, Zakry Hummel of James Madison High School said: "I know what is like to work in a real marketing company. I want to start small so I can learn ..." Hummel shadowed at LeapFrog Solutions, Inc.

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