Paid summer internships at Conner Prairie will connect local students to leadership training & work experience
Bank of America recently announced four Indianapolis-area high school juniors and seniors were selected as Student Leaders (#BofAStudentLeaders), an eight-week paid summer internship connecting students to employment, skills development and service.
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Locally, Carmel High School student Jihoon Kwon has been selected as one of this year’s Student Leaders.
Kwon says he is passionate about serving the community and has spent more than 200 hours volunteering at the Crooked Creek Food Pantry, where he earned the President’s Volunteer Service Award. Through his volunteer experience, he has seen firsthand the impact issues like food insecurity and chronic disease have on community members and strives to use his leadership skills and innovative ideas to create positive change.
These community-minded students will gain practical work and leadership experience and receive financial education coaching from Bank of America’s Better Money Habits curriculum, while working with local nonprofit Conner Prairie, all while earning competitive wages.
Celebrating its 20th anniversary year, the Student Leaders program recognizes 300 community-focused juniors and seniors from across the U.S. annually. Since 2004, Students Leaders has engaged more than 4,500 students and invested $42 million in more than 500 local nonprofits as a critical part of the bank’s long-standing effort to build pathways to economic mobility across nearly 100 markets.
“Preparing a diverse pipeline of community-minded young students to find success in the workforce is critical to Indianapolis’ long-term economic growth,” Bank of America Indianapolis President Andy Crask said. “These exceptional teens selected for the Student Leaders program will obtain practical work and life experience and the community in return will benefit from a diverse and vibrant pool of talent as these young adults enter the local workforce.”
Later this summer, Kwon will travel to Washington, D.C., for a week-long, all-expenses-paid national leadership summit to learn how nonprofits, governments, and businesses collaborate to meet local needs.