Sea to Sky Branch
Career Awareness Activities

Career Awareness --Job Experience

The pilot program for students in grades 11 and 12 to provide them with a week of focussed job equivalent experience.

The students are first selected for on the basis of grades and interest in registering in engineering school.

This year the Program delivered an intensive morning presentation by Claudio Arato, P.Eng (APEGBC council) and Monica Danon Schaffer, P.Eng. (NovaTec Engineering) , Dr Bruce Dunwoody, P.Eng. (Associate Dean of Applied Science UBC), Elvis Riou, P.Eng. (APEGBC registration), and Wendy Ho EIT.( Ballard Power).

The students spent the next day touring Nexen Chemicals, Neptune Terminals and Forintek.

This year we are looking for placements for 25 students from all over the GVRD and will of course have additional help from the Career awareness committee and the members of the other lower mainland branches.

Last year approximately 20 students from West Vancouver North Vancouver, Vancouver and Langley were placed in career awareness or job experience positions. This is considered the highest priority by School District Staff. Placements: CAE Machinery, North West Hydraulics, Creo Industries, David Nairne and Associates, RA Duff, St Paul's Hospital Honeywell Devron, NORSAT, BC Ferries Corp. and DEC Design.

The twenty students have been enthusiastic and look extremely promising. You, our members, can still help to provide other students with on-the-job experience. For more information please look at the West Vancouver School District Work Experience Employers Manual.

To volunteer employer work experience time contact John Morgan, PEng at (604) 987-5142, email: john_morgan@telus.net  or Shahab Sokansanj email sokhansanj@shaw.ca 

Led and supported by: Sea to Sky Branch, ASTBC Techworks and West and North Vancouver School Boards and the Career Awareness committee of APEGBC.