During recent years, FLATE has partnered with
the Able Trust High School High Tech (HSHT). This program is designed to
provide high school students with all types of disabilities the opportunity to
explore jobs or postsecondary education leading to technology- related careers.
HSHT links youth to a broad range of academic, career development and
experiential resources and experiences that will enable them to meet the
demands of the 21st century workforce.
HSHT
is a community-based partnership made up of students, parents and caregivers,
businesses, educators and rehabilitation professionals. It has been shown to
reduce the high school dropout rate and increase the overall self-esteem of
participating students.
This
summer, FLATE hosted two Hillsborough County HSHT students as interns working
with our summer camp instructors as camp teaching aids. They were a great help
for the camp instructors helping to set up the camp room and robots, working
with the camper student teams, and helping to keep order during all camp
sessions. You can read their comments and feedback from the experience in this
month’s story about the FLATE summer camps.
Elizabeth Simpson, Summer Camp coordinator said “the HSHT interns were
invaluable and added to this summer’s success.
FLATE
also helped the HSHT group from the Arc in Jacksonville during their summer
trip to the Tampa Bay area. In a
whirlwind 3 days, the group, under the program coordinator, Sara Clifton, visited MOSI, the Florida Aquarium,
Busch Gardens, and USF St. Pete. FLATE
set up a visit and tour to the highly automated Valpak Manufacturing facility
in Pinellas County. Sara said that “facility
really appealed to my students that are more mechanically inclined, which is
most of my boys anyways. It was a really great tour! Thank you so much!” We hope the HSHT student groups around
Florida will participate in MFG DAY tours this year visiting manufacturing
facilities around the state.
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