Andrea Coles at Premier Technology Inc

Andrea Coles, Premiere Technology IncThis is my second year participating in the iSTEM Externship program with Premier Technology Inc and it has been an incredible experience yet again. All of the employees I work with are so kind and helpful and eager to foster a relationship between the STEM industry and education. This year I was able to learn about the detailed process of receipt inspecting. I was asked to summarize processes in a training binder for receipt inspectors. In order to do this, I met with receipt inspectors to learn about what they did and then used the trainee binder to summarize thirteen different processes. In addition to the training summaries, I was able to teach math classes to craftsmen working in Premier’s welding/machine shop. We started these math classes last year with Premier’s welding apprenticeship program and opened the classes up to other craftsmen this year. In all, I will teach about 8 classes. I am so excited to share what I have learned this summer with my high school students this fall. It makes math so much more meaningful and my job as a teacher more fulfilling when students can see a connection between math and the world they live in.