By Zach Spicer
The Educator Externship is being offered to local educators again this summer.
For four different dates in June, local school staff members had an opportunity to sign up to participate. Each week, about 10 are chosen to tour two local industries. They find out what the company does and what opportunities there are for employment. The teachers receive a stipend after submitting a report about what they learned and how they will take that back to their school and help students.
The third day of the program was June 16. Ten educators spent the morning at Pet Supplies Plus Distribution Center and the afternoon at Cummins Seymour Engine Plant, both in Seymour. Pet Supplies Plus distributes merchandise to its retail stores, and Cummins manufactures natural gas and diesel engines.
JCIDC would like to thank both of these companies for giving educators an opportunity to learn more about what they do, and we thank the educators for participating in order to benefit their students.
To learn more about these companies, visit petsuppliesplus.com and cummins.com.
