High School Students Learn about Information Tech Jobs at National Laboratory

Submitted by the Livermore National Laboratory:

A group of Livermore high school students visited the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory last week for the first Department of EnergyIT Job Shadow Day. The goal of the event is to enlighten local high school seniors about summer internships as well as careers in information technology (IT) at LLNL and other DOE facilities, once they are in college or when they complete their
degrees.

A total of 45 students from Granada High School and Livermore High School took a tour of the High Performance Computing Facility and the National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center. They also met Lab senior leaders, participated in discussions on IT related topics, and heard about the Lab’s cyber
defenders program, IT operations, networking and simulations.

The Lab's Chief Information Officer program organized the Livermore event. Brookhaven National Lab, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Jefferson Lab also held job shadow days at their sites. The goal is to make the IT Job Shadow Day an annual occurrence with participation at additional
DOE facilities.