Montgomery County Public Schools

Career & Technology Education
Career & Technology Education Staff Members

Telephone: 301-649-8159

Staff Member
Position
Courses
Resource Teacher
Dance, Specialty Physical Education
Teacher
Accounting, Foundation in Arts, Humanities, Media, and Communication, Software Applications Design
Teacher
Introduction to Engineering
Teacher
Foundations of Technology, Technological Innovations
Teacher
College Careers, Cooperative Work Experience On-the Job Training, Entrepreneurship and Business Management
Teacher
Technological Innovations, Pre-Engineering
Teacher
Foundations of Technology
Internships

What is an Internship?
A student internship is an unpaid, career-focused experience during which students become directly involved in the workplace.  This experience provides an opportunity for a student to apply the skills obtained in school to real work situations and to learn additional skills.  An internship will also help students define their career goals.

Minimum Requirements:
In order to earn credit for internship, students must work a minimum number of hours, as follows:
                Triple Period Interns:     225 hours/semester = 15 hours per week
                Double Period Interns:  150 hours/semester = 10 hours per week
                Single Period Interns:     75 hours/semester = 5 hours per week


The hours may be arranged to suit the convenience of the supervisor and student.  Hours will be given for the weekly seminar meetings which are held at Northwood High School with the Internship Coordinator.

Past Internship Sponsors:
Kindness Animal Hospital
LSY Architects
Holy Cross Hospital
Kids After Hours
Affinity Sports and Health
Newport Mill Middle School
State’s Attorney Office
Law Offices Aimee C. Robbins
Law Office of Ryan A. Lahuti
St. Andrew's Apostle School
Final Cut Productions
Walter Reed Medical Center
Insituto de Educacion Infamtil, Inc
A. Mario Loiederman MS
Families Foremost Center

Student Internship Initial Application Forms
Internship Program Application
Internship Student Requirements
Student Schedule
Faculty Recommendation Form

For more information, contact Ms. Loretta Kavanaugh, the internship coordinator at Loretta_Kavanaugh@mcpsmd.org.

News Articles
Gamers take Foxy and Boxy to the next level

From the Gazette:

http://www.gazette.net/stories/02182009/wheanew200849_32477.shtml

Northwood High School students' video game creation wins global competition

by Amber Parcher | Staff Writer

When the team of four boys from Northwood High School walked into the start of an international video game design competition two weeks ago, they were disheartened by all of the professionals and college students signing up.

"We're going to lose, we're going to lose, we're going to lose," sophomore Alex House said he kept repeating to himself at the event held at the Universities at Shady Grove campus in Rockville.

The group of boys — House, sophomore Casey Minnick, junior Gabriel Vargas and senior Aaron Scott — had 48 hours to design a video game from scratch based around the theme, "As long as we have each other, we will never run out of problems."

Teams of gamers around the world were doing the same thing for the Global Game Jam, each vying for the top spot in their location.

So as the timer started, the boys, each with about three months' experience in creating games, decided to make their game as entertaining and silly as possible, "to entertain the judges," Scott said.

They were going to lose anyway — might as well make it funny, Minnick said.

The group started with two cardboard boxes, named Foxy and Boxy, punk rock music only a teenage boy could love and an evil "boss" of a chimpanzee riding a Segway.

The premise of the game, which Northwood High School gaming teacher Donna Thomas said was unique, was that to get through each level, the characters Foxy and Boxy were dependant on each other. Two players had to work together to win the game.

"I can't think of a game that is similar to this," said Thomas, who has 26 years of high-tech experience but wasn't allowed to help the boys during the competition.

When Northwood team's name was announced as the overall winner at the end of the weekend, everyone — including Thomas — was surprised.

"They were so intimidated. They had the professionals coming in with synthesizers and desktops and all kinds of stuff," she said. "All these guys showed up with were laptops issued by MCPS."

Looking back on the competition, Minnick said it makes sense that they won. Their team was the only one to finish the entire game without any glitches or bugs, he said.

(Well, the chimpanzee boss can't kill Foxy and Boxy, but good thing the judges didn't notice that, he said.)

Thomas said she thinks the boys — the youngest group of participants in the gaming competition — won because they were uninhibited by age.

"Their imagination was what enabled them to win," she said.

Their game was also picked to be displayed at the International Game Development Conference in San Francisco in March.

Thomas said it's a boon to their young resumes and their careers. Scott, who will graduate this spring, plans to study in the Universities at Shady Grove's gamer program.

And the rest of the boys are busy planning their next game — loosely based on the idea of a snowed-in Northwood that forces students to create tribes.

"That might be a good game idea," Minnick said.

Play the game

Want to play the Northwood team's winning Global Game Jam video game and other student-made video games? CDs of the games are being sold for $5, to benefit the school's computer science program. To buy one, call Donna Thomas at 301-639-5037.

Northwood Students Win Global Game Jam in Rockville, MD

Senior Aaron Scott, junior Gabriel Vargas, and sophomores Alex House and Casey Minnick won the Global Game Jam in Rockville, MD. Their game will be displayed and shared at the International Game Development Conference in San Francisco in March. Not only did they win, but the also won Developers' Choice, which was a vote among their competitive peers at the competition. Because they won both, Northwood gracefully gave the prize for Developer's Choice to Springbrook's team, which was the runner-up in the votes. Lead judge Cy Khormaee said hands-down that Northwood's output was the best. Kathleen Harmeyer, coordinator of the event and the Director of the Digital Entertainment and Simulation program at UB, informed the attendees that Northwood's team represented the youngest participants in the Global Game Jam.View photographs from the event. (keyword: 3016395037)

Last updated November 13, 2009 | Webmaster


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