STEMworks™ Stories p ublished by STEMworks™ 2019 Interns

Chelsea Kau
Online Journalist & Social Media Strategist

Giel Tolentino
Graphic Designer & Social Media Analyst
ABOUT the STEMworks ™  Internship
STEMworks™ provides a work-based learning opportunity that helps build critical and creative thinking. STEMworks™ students are matched with a host company or organization based on the company’s project needs along with the interest and skills of the student.

WORK-BASED LEARNING - STEM INDUSTRY CONNECTIONS - COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT - CAREER EXPLORATION - COLLEGE READINESS - STUDENT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS - REAL PROJECTS
What happens when 33 of Hawaii's most promising young talent gather together for the first time?

Hawaii's young, STEMworks ™ leaders gathered on Maui to begin their 6-week internship experience on June 6th, 2019. This jam-packed day featured speed-networking, mock interviews, resume and branding skills, and the engineering design process!
Connecting with Local Industry Professionals
5x5 STEM Industry Session
Our 5x5 Industry Session kicked off our STEMworks™ Internship last Thursday, June 6! Our interns from across the state were able to have one-on-one conversations with 30 industry professionals. They were encouraged to push their limits by setting their goals higher and higher!

Thank you to all of our 5x5 Industry Professionals for taking the time out of your busy schedules to meet our 2019 STEMworks™ Internship Cohort!
Shine at Your Interview!
Mock Interview Session with NEPRIS
You got the call, they want to meet you. How do you make sure you're selling your story?

With the help of Nepris, Moloka’i intern Peyton Gillespie and Maui intern Kalila Philips wowed their “real life interviews” from experts like Tiffany R. Paige, J.D., from Mississippi College School of Law 🏫💼and Anthony Russo, from Capital One 🏦!

The mock interviews provided new opportunities of connecting our young people to high level companies' human personnel who provided useful feedback to the individual and all our interns.

A couple questions asked were:
  • Name three characteristics that describes yourself?
  • What are some challenges you have faced? 
Brand Yourself
Resume and Branding Session
"Branding" oneself is being able to capture the attention of your future employer with your cover letter and resume. This is an important skill to have that can help you advance to the next level of the hiring process. STEMworks™ interns learned the importance of appearance, proper communication, maintaining professional relationships, body language and nonverbal communications. Make your best first impression to anyone!

Our interns have a wide variety of interests pertaining to STEM which helped them when it was time to pair up and revise each other's resumes. With their different strengths and weaknesses, they were able to help each other on writing, designing, and encouraging one another to not be afraid to show their skills on their resumes!
Here are some helpful tools from our presenter, Traci Rosario!
Skit the Process!
STEMworks™ Engineering Design Process Toolkit
Challenges and problems arise in any situation, whether on the job, at school, or simply at home. It is our responsibility to produce solutions to solve the problem! Through 8 different groups, the interns created skits that demonstrated the different steps of the Engineering Design Process, facilitated by STEMworks™ Program Manager, Melinda White.

  • Define the Problem
  • Gather Pertinent Information
  • Generate Multiple Solutions
  • Analyze and Select a Solution
  • Design Culturally Responsive Solutions
  • Test and Optimize
  • Share and Reflect
  • Entrepreneurship
Industry Presenters on Friday, June 14!
Giving Your Elevator Pitch
Robb Oshima
Free Tools to Amplify Your Voice or Those of Your Community
Alexandrina Garcia-Verdin