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MTC 2016 High School Internship Final Presentations
The event was an opportunity for students from all nine Bay Area counties to meet their peers form new professional connections.
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The student critiqued each others' presentations and also received feedback from professional judges.
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Five students who interned for the Solano Transportation Authority presented their work together.
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Mentor Melissa Jordan from BART and her summer intern Raquel Crites smiled for a photo.
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The students posed together for a group photo.
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The students chatted about their summer work over breakfast and lunch.
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Quiana Stodder presented on her internship with the Town of Windsor.
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Raquel Crites, intern at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)
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Flore Mountsambote, summer intern for the city of San Leandro
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Sneh Girdhar told her fellow interns about herinternship with the city of Hayward.
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Michael Hwang, intern for Alameda County Public Works Agency
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Judges from MTC and other transportation agencies critiqued the presentations.
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Owen Mahoney interned for the Presidio Trust in San Francisco.
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Illeana Guillen, intern for the San Francisco County Transportation Authority
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Fatima Garcia talked about her experiences at Solano County Transit (Soltrans).
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Andre O’Quinn, intern for the city of Daly City.
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Shantal Reyes, intern for the county of San Mateo
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The students learned about the work their of peers across the region.
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Preethi Kandappan, intern for the county of Santa Clara
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Maneek Dhillon, intern for the city of San Pablo
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Sarah Mondloch, intern for the town of Danville
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Heidi Kwong presented on her summer working for city of San Ramon.
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Sarahi Alvarez and Emilia Garcia presented on their summer working for the Napa Valley Transportation Authority.
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Students made new friends from other counties.
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Randy Rentschler and Yulee Kim from MTC congratulated the students on their hard work.
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The event was held at the new Bay Area Metro Center in San Francisco.
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Students from across the region recently gathered at the Bay Area Metro Center to share their experiences interning at transportation agencies over the summer through the MTC High School Internship Program. The students each delivered a three-to-four-minute presentation on their experiences, discussing the value of their agencies to their communities, their duties for the summer, and the new they will apply to their future education and career paths. The students expressed appreciation to their mentors in attendance; these guides represented a variety of professional voices in transportation engineering, planning, operations, marketing and more throughout the Bay Area's nine counties.