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For Immediate Release

Metropolitan Transportation Commission Announces Internship Opportunities for High School Students

Application deadline is May 3, 2000

CONTACT:

Catalina Alvarado
510.817.5783

OAKLAND, Calif., April 5, 2000 . . . The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) announced the start of an important new educational opportunity – a High School Internship Program that will provide students who have completed the 10th, 11th or 12th grade by this June work experience in the field of transportation.

"The purpose of the program is to introduce students to potential careers, and to provide our transportation partners with some assistance on entry-level tasks," noted MTC Executive Director Lawrence D. Dahms.

Approximately 35 paid internships ($6 per hour) are available throughout the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. Ideally, students will live in the same city or county in which they work. Selected students will be employed for a period of two months in the summer with local public agencies in a department related to transportation planning, public works or public transit. Student applicants must be at least 16 years of age, have completed at least the tenth grade by the start of the program, and have a minimum grade point average of 3.0.

Applications can be downloaded from MTC's Web site, located at <www.mtc.ca.gov>. (See "Jobs/Contracts" on the navigational bar.) The Web site also includes a complete list of internship locations for this summer. To request a hard copy of the application packet, contact MTC's Public Information Office at 510/817-5757, or e-mail MTC at <info@mtc.ca.gov>.

Completed applications must be postmarked no later than Wednesday, May 3, 2000. MTC is the regional transportation planning, financing and coordinating agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area.

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