Summer Internships

"Forever Rockwood" is a series in which the Rockwood School District features alumni from Eureka, Lafayette, Marquette and Rockwood Summit high schools who make a lasting impact on their communities.

Eureka High student Stephen Shaji and Marquette High’s Aryan Valsa Pradeep will get the chance to present research this fall that they performed during separate internships at Saint Louis University through the Partners in Education Summer Internship program.

Marquette High student Landon Buscher is deepening his knowledge in identifying and neutralizing cyber threats at McCarthy Holdings this summer.

Marquette student Navin Ramamoorthy is learning how his interest in mental health awareness can translate into a career as a summer intern at NAMI St. Louis.

Rockwood students Charlotte Knight and Jacob Sander (NewGround) and Ankita Ramachandran and Yasheeta Rao (HERA) are learning architecture and design in real-world settings through summer internships.

Lauren Meitz and Alina Rodriguez are learning about careers in archiving, record-keeping and museum curation during their PIE summer internship at the Wildwood Historical Society.

Rising senior C.J. Woode is immersing himself in a variety of projects in the accounting department of Easterseals Midwest during his Rockwood Partners in Education summer internship.

For 40 years, Rockwood Partners in Education (PIE) has collaborated with staff members, families and community businesses and organizations to offer the best experiential learning opportunities possible for Rockwood students.

From forensics to computer science, from pharmacology to aerospace, Rockwood students are experiencing authentic research in lab settings through the PIE Summer Internship Program.