STEM teachers get back to business this summer with positions at local companies
“We always want teachers to encourage our future doctors and nurses,” said Methodist Le Bonheur CEO Micahel Uguweke, “but we also want teachers to share with their students that there are other roles in health care that can be explored as well.” (Daily Memphian file)
The Greater Memphis Chamber’s new externship program places STEM teachers with local businesses and is part of an effort to build “one of the most robust and inclusive talent pipelines in the nation.”
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Buckman Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Greater Memphis ChamberAarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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