BGE, Baltimore City Public Schools Launch Plumbing Program

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Firew Mengesha aspires to enactment successful electrical substations—and arsenic a precocious schoolhouse elder helium already has applicable acquisition connected his resume.

He’s 1 of 133 students from the Baltimore City Public Schools vocation method acquisition (CTE) programs who person participated successful BGE’s Smart Energy Internship program since 2016. Fifteen students were yet hired arsenic full-time employees aft graduation.

Firew hopes to beryllium fig 16.

“Seeing the interns get hired made maine privation to beryllium a portion of the program,” helium said. “This accidental to alteration my beingness close retired of precocious schoolhouse touched maine and has been a life-changing experience.”

That’s what inspired Firew, who volition postgraduate from Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School (Mervo) this spring, to instrumentality to BGE for much internship acquisition successful summertime 2020.

Firew exemplifies what occurrence tin look similar erstwhile a motivated pupil takes vantage of his program and the enactment of his teachers to presumption himself for an internship with BGE. His maturation helped spur the adjacent section of the concern betwixt Baltimore City Public Schools and BGE: the launch of a plumbing way astatine Mervo, announced formally during a Feb. 26 CTE programs showcase lawsuit astatine the schoolhouse system’s headquarters.

“This concern helps talented students link with opportunities to assistance them person a amended future,” said BGE CEO Carim Khouzami, who joined BGE workforce improvement stakeholders astatine the event. “We are agreed successful our tendency to supply the champion opportunities imaginable for these students and I look guardant to what we tin proceed to execute together.”

According to the Greater Baltimore Committee, the area’s plumbing pipeline is severely depleted. This programme provides an further pathway into the trades and a well-paying career. BGE is also accelerating the gait of infrastructure work and plumbing skills are straight applicable to moving connected the state system.

Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Dr. Sonja Santelises explained the value of accidental and firm partnerships. “We are truly committed to making definite that each of our young radical person what they request and are capable to participate careers,” she said successful opening remarks to the much than 100 students, teachers, and different stakeholders who attended the event. “We are thrilled that our partner, BGE, is not lone committed to Baltimore City but besides committed to its young radical and aboriginal citizens and workforce.”

More accusation astir workforce improvement programs astatine BGE is disposable on bge.com.