Academy for Young Writers' students looking for storied internships in the city:
"Passing state Regents exams is about to pay off for several dozen Brooklyn middle school kids - and possible future colleagues of mine - with your help.
About 40 seniors from the Academy for Young Writers in Williamsburg will skip school for two weeks in January.
If enough positions can be found, they will spend those weeks at unpaid internships at businesses around the city.
The two-week job is an extension of Academy's founder and Principal Carolyn Yaffe's education philosophy.
'We are an exhibition-based- on-instruction school,' Yaffe said. 'It is important that students see how what they are doing in the classroom is connected to the world outside the classroom.'"
"Passing state Regents exams is about to pay off for several dozen Brooklyn middle school kids - and possible future colleagues of mine - with your help.
About 40 seniors from the Academy for Young Writers in Williamsburg will skip school for two weeks in January.
If enough positions can be found, they will spend those weeks at unpaid internships at businesses around the city.
The two-week job is an extension of Academy's founder and Principal Carolyn Yaffe's education philosophy.
'We are an exhibition-based- on-instruction school,' Yaffe said. 'It is important that students see how what they are doing in the classroom is connected to the world outside the classroom.'"
