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Idaho workforce program pairs teachers with tech firms

July 25, 2019/

Idaho STEM-Externship

A Jerome teacher is spending her summer wearing VR headsets and working with 3D graphics at a Boise virtual reality startup in hopes of helping her students become the next developers, programmers and engineers.

Penni Aufderheide, who teaches music and coaches robotics at Summit Elementary, is one of 16 Idaho educators who are spending their summers participating in a new externship pilot program supported by the STEM Action Center and the Workforce Development Council.

“I’m on a summer adventure,” Aufderheide said. “This is the STEM Action Center’s way of giving a teacher real world experience.”

 

Clark Corbin


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