Doctor, architect or magician: Student internships help high-schoolers begin finding their passion

Brenda Masservy is rarely surprised anymore by the kind of internships seniors at Weston High School in Massachusetts secure for their final three weeks of school. Many students find positions with firms local to the Boston area (Weston is about 15 miles west of the city), while other students travel as far as China and Japan.The internships are meant to give students a window into a future career that interests them before they start college — perhaps architecture, medicine or even, yes, the job of an illusionist.“I had a student who wanted to be magician and I had never had that happen before,” Masservy said in an interview. “The student came up with name of someone they’d seen on Ellen DeGeneres, and I reached out to that person in Los Angeles and they agreed to let them do an internship for three weeks. They even continued for the summer.”