KCUR: This Kansas City teen thought he wanted a nursing career. So an internship gave him a shot
By Brandon Azim
Inside a gymnasium located at the Ewing Marion Kauffman High School on Paseo Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri, there are 620 enthusiastic and eager teenagers. They are the interns hired in March of this year at a hiring fair sponsored by ProX, a nonprofit funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Its focus is on providing real-life work opportunities for teens who live in underserved communities.
The students are sent to rooms scattered throughout the building for coaching and guidelines on how to get an internship — how to interview, how to write about yourself, what to wear — and how it works once you’ve landed one.
18-year-old Chiagozie Chukwu wants to join the medical profession. He was at the ProX hiring fair and was awarded an internship shadowing medical staff at Children's Mercy Hospital, along with 11 other kids.
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