MADISON – While still in high school, students enrolled in an Engineering Academy course at Bob Jones High School have experienced first-hand about the office environment for jobs in their career path.

The course is “Engineering Internship: Research and Design with Senior Career Pathway Project.” With Jessye Gaines as teacher, this class is the final level of Bob Jones Engineering Academy and combines all skills that students acquired in prerequisite courses.

Engineering Internship students will deliver their final presentations about their experiences on Dec. 14-15 at 2 p.m. at Bob Jones in Patriot Hall. Gaines has invited participating business leaders and residents to hear the students’ final presentations.

“The students have just completed their 12 weeks with local engineering companies, and we could not be more proud” (of their accomplishments),” Gaines said. “This has been our first semester for students to complete a full semester of in-person internships since fall 2019,” Gaines said.

Students Larry Adams, Cameron Cummings, Zachary Floyd and Yashas Gentela completed internships with KTECH – Virtual Reality Beta Class. KTECH is a workforce training initiative from Kids to Love Foundation. Bob Jones students worked with the KTECH staff for its Beta class in virtual reality.

Jonathan Gunasekaran discussed his internship with STI Electronics Inc. in Madison. STI develops products for industries with soldering and electronics assembly.

Diane Pham explained her time with SAIC/Davis Strategic Innovations Inc. in Madison. This company provides technology and management solutions to aerospace, defense, medical and environmental companies, along with homeland security.

James Garrison completed his internship with Huntsville’s Penta Research Inc., which supplies customers with timely analysis products that support milestones for major program decisions.

Joshua Cagle and Camden Grant interned with Additive Manufacturing & Engineering Inc. The company helps its customers in manufacturing to produce its parts faster.

Owen Long and Trush Patel gained experience at Craft Designs Inc. in Huntsville. The company specializes in software engineering for defense, aerospace, industrial automation and medical fields.

Anthony Ramos discussed his intern time with Nextek Inc. in Madison. Nextek is an Electronics Manufacturing Services or EMS company for electronic assembly, prototyping and lab services.

Boone Ramsey worked at CFD Research Corporation in Huntsville. This company specializes in engineering simulations for aerospace, biomedical, defense and other industries.