Aquiline Hosts DCPS Scholar Interns Under Mayor’s 2022 Initiative
The Aquiline Group is excited to announce that, for the second year, we have been selected to participate in Mayor Bowser’s DC Public Schools (DCPS) internship program for outstanding high school students. The school-year internship program is a three-year pilot initiative that began in Fiscal Year 2022, placing hundreds of scholars in paid and credit-bearing internships aligned with each student’s Career and Technical Education (CTE) program of study standards.
Jada Champ, Paul Washington, and Sapriyah Hancock, DCPS students, are working with Aquiline February-May 2022 under the CTE Advanced Internship Program (AIP). Champ and Washington are working with Aquiline on a variety of projects, including Aquiline’s Out-of-School Learning Campaign to address learning loss affecting minority communities due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Axios (April 4, 2022), a new McKinsey study says that, based on data from Feb. 16, 2020, to Jan. 31, 2022, ``students globally are eight months behind where they would have been absent the pandemic.”
Meet Our 2022 Interns
Jada Champ
Champ is an 18-year-old senior at H.D. Woodson High School. She is an athlete serving as the captain of the cheer team and aspires to be a Labor and Delivery Nurse.
Sapriyah Hancock
Hancock is an 18-year-old entrepreneur from Washington, D.C. She attends Calvin Coolidge Senior High School.
Paul Washington
Washington is an 18-year-old senior at Calvin Coolidge High School who, like Champ, is an athlete, and he is majoring in Exercise Science / Pre-Physical
Therapy.