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Grand Island DECA advisor offers student-led project to build unified community calendar
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Cheryl Chamberlain, a Grand Island High School DECA advisor, pitched a DECA/manual internship project to compile and publish a single community events calendar; the Economic Development Advisory Board discussed roles, timing and budget support ahead of the school district budget vote on May 20.
Cheryl Chamberlain, a DECA advisor at Grand Island High School, told the Economic Development Advisory Board Wednesday that students can build a single, aggregated community calendar as a DECA manual project and internship.
Chamberlain said the New York State Career Exploration Internship Program (CEIP) requires 54 hours of unpaid internship experience plus 27 hours of classroom instruction, and that some students also take part in a paid work-based learning option that requires about 120 hours in a semester. “We are an approved program at Grand Island High School for the CEIP, which is a career exploration internship program, which is 54 hours of an unpaid internship experience and 27 hours of…
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