{"id":7120,"date":"2024-08-27T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/?p=7120"},"modified":"2024-08-26T22:57:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T04:57:41","slug":"flatiron-participates-in-texas-externship-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/news\/flatiron-participates-in-texas-externship-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnering with Educators: Flatiron Participates in Texas Externship Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW175707353 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW175707353 BCX0\">Teachers learn about Flatiron, can better inform students about career opportunities.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h5>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Flatiron&#8217;s Texas District hosted City of Austin teachers as part of our commitment to education and community service. The educators spent three days observing our Central Texas work through the externship, including a tour of our San Antonio International Airport projects.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The experience was designed to help the teachers better understand the construction industry and the career opportunities it offers students. The educators were given the opportunity to ask Flatiron employees about their skills, certifications and career trajectories. Additionally, now that the teachers have made professional connections at Flatiron, they can identify future learning opportunities for their students.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7121\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7121\" class=\"wp-image-7121 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Evan-Woody-with-Group.jpg\" alt=\"Flatiron employees partnering with City of Austin teachers\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Evan-Woody-with-Group.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Evan-Woody-with-Group-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Evan-Woody-with-Group-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Evan-Woody-with-Group-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Program participants learning about Flatiron operations.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW82460822 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW82460822 BCX0\">Externship participants now have the tools to create lesson plans around construction opportunities, as well as identify future industry-related projects for their students.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW82460822 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/careers\/\">Learn more about career opportunities at Flatiron.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flatiron&#8217;s Texas District hosted City of Austin teachers as part of our commitment to education and community service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,557],"tags":[465,497,28,179,188,516],"class_list":["post-7120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-at-flatiron","category-sustainability","tag-community","tag-community-service","tag-featured","tag-flatiron","tag-flatirons-social-responsibility","tag-sustainability"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}