Georgia Tech-Savannah is seeking corporate sponsors and area teachers for its Summer 2018 Georgia Intern Fellowship for Teachers program, a professional development program that provides paid summer internships in industry workplaces and university laboratories for Georgia K-12 School teachers in STEM related disciplines.

“We are bringing this program from our Atlanta campus to expose teachers from Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, and Liberty counties to receive workplace experience with corporations, like Great Dane, that have made Savannah home,” said Trish Heichel, GIFT program coordinator. “In exchange, the corporate sponsor receives an enthusiastic temporary employee and contributes to the local education community by helping teachers pass on work readiness to their students.”

Great Dane is one of the corporate sponsors in this year’s program who will bring in a teacher to learn “real world” applications of their subjects. Teachers are encouraged to apply as well as corporations across industries. Selected applicants will receive a weekly stipend from GIFT while companies need only to provide them with work experience that can be paid forward in the classroom.

GIFT was founded in founded in 1991 as a program of the Georgia Tech’s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing. GIFT teachers spend 4 to 7 weeks experiencing first hand how industrial scientists and researchers approach problems, design experiments, interpret data, communicate findings, and develop and implement workplace solutions. Since its founding, GIFT has placed teachers in more than 2,000 positions statewide.

Interested applicants and sponsors should contact Trish Heichel at [email protected] or 843/384-0640. For more information about GIFT, please visit https://ceismc.gatech.edu/gift.