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Academy Internship Information

Academy Information for Students and Parents: 

Information coming soon for the 2023-2024 School Year. 

Internship Overview

All students accepted into one of the Middle Creek High School Career Academies is required to complete a 120-hour internship related to their field of study between their junior and senior year. This internship shows up as a course on their high school transcript and academy students must submit appropriate documentation for their work in their internship in order to receive a grade. 

The Internship Experience

Our past students have held internships at the following companies and organizations:
  • Fire and Spunk Productions
  • Walk West
  • ADFED - Triangle Advertising Federation
  • Rendering House
  • Walt's World Vacations
  • Apex Baptist Church
  • Hope Community Church
  • UNC-TV
  • GvEVIL
  • PropelIMG
  • The Performance Academy
  • Hocutt Baptist Church
  • NCSU
  • Digital P Media
  • AlphaGraphics
  • Toby Malik Engineering
  • Capitol Broadcasting Company
  • Epic Games
  • Capstone Production Group
  • uStadium
  • Collier Research Corporation
  • Precision Letter
  • Polyzen
  • Firstmark Aerospace
  • Sigma Electric Manufacturing
  • Osterlund Architects, PLLC
  • SmallHD
  • Simple Roots Decor
  • Quate
  • Bell and Howell
  • Schunk
  • Metabolon Inc.
  • TE Connectivity
  • Conec
Types of the duties/responsibilities our student interns have completed:
  • Worked to advertise and create and video for their new product 
  • Surveyed several different positions in a video company, logged footage, set up for shoots, etc.
  • Making weekly graphics, assist in video recording and production, filing and sorting files. 
  • Shooting video and then editing it into a story. I also made a lot of cold calls, and attended a lot of meetings.
  • Making graphics & logos
  • Recording high school football games each Friday for HSOT
  • Made t-shirt designs, social media post, and animations 
  • Create commercials & graphics for social media
  • Gained experience using HyperSizer, tested the new version of the software and trained clients of the company.
  • Support throughout the sign creation process - like edging and setting signs up for painting, as well as more technical work, like using a CAD program and using a laser.
  • Worked on production line making medical devices, participated on engineering teams for R&D of new medical devices, troubleshooting problems, and creating 3D models of parts to be used in production.
  • Assisted engineering team with drafting, product specification and review, testing, documentation, and other continuous improvement tasks.
  • Quality Control of electrical fittings
  • Use Solidworks to create my own product - responsible for design and dimensions, including the circuit board, casing, display, and structure. 
  • Operating and designing  for CNC machines
  • Welding, CAD Drawings, sorting metal, grinding, cutting, sweeping
  • Building/Prototyping using aluminum extrude and the engineering design process
  • Reading technical drawings, conducting research, attending meetings, designing CAD models, building prototypes.
  • Macro programming and printer maintenance
  • Writing manufacturing floor procedures to improve effeciency

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