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