By Ivan Pereira
AM New York
As a student at Queens Vocational and Technical High School, Amanda Marte already had training and education on some of the latest tech-related equipment and programs, but she wanted to learn in a real-world situation.
“I didn’t want to sit at a screen all day, I want to see how [my studies] can actually be used,” the 17-year-old student from Rego Park said.
The city’s Department of Information Technology helped to wet her tech appetite this summer as part of its internship program that hired 47 teens across the city into various departments.
Amanda, who is one of five DoITT interns taking part in the Bank of America CTE Summer Scholars program, has been working in the telecom department and learning from the team that handles interagency radios. The nonemergency radios help city workers communicate during large-scale events, like last month’s ticker-tape parade for the U.S. women’s soccer team.
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