Work-Based Learning

Contact BASE's WBL Coordinator by emailing:

Who is the WBL Coordinator for the 2024-2025 school year?

Shanua Rodriguez, CTE CS Teacher, is the acting WBL Coordinator at BASE.

Office Hours: 4th Period Lunch, 8th Period, & Thursday & Friday after school.

Why Work-Based Learning (WBL)?

Every student needs to extend their limit to reach their career and college readiness potential. There are tremendous amounts of opportunities that await students here at BASE both inside and outside of the classroom. As a CTE High School with a software engineering pathway, BASE is mandated to prepare students for Careers as well as College. To do this we offer Work Based Learning (WBL) throughout the 4 years at BASE and across subjects.

What Does WBL Provide?

Work-Based Learning (WBL) provides students the opportunity to learn technical, academic and employability skills. It creates relationships between employers and schools to provide structured learning experiences for students.

What Are the Goals of WBL?

The main goal of WBL is to help students develop skills for employment and education after high school. It focuses on helping students to develop transferable skills for postsecondary education and the workplace.

Some of the options that students can choose to participate in are:

Becoming involved a BASE Club
Participating in Community Service
Being a part of student leadership
Participating in software engineering industry based hackathons & competitions
Attending educational events
Signing up and participating in internships
Being a part of student advocacy opportunities
Working with paid opportunities like SYEP (Summer Youth Employment Program), CTE ISP (Industry Service Providers), WLG (Work Learn Grow), part-time jobs and more . . .

What will a high school student need to get a job under our work-based learning program?

Working Papers:

Identification Card
Social Security Number *
Health Check-Up
I-9 Form *
W-2 Form
Resume & Cover Letter
Portfolio **
Any other requirements based on the job

* There are other work-based on-site challenge opportunities that may not require a social security number or the filing of an I-9 Form.

** Portfolio requests can vary due to job requirements.

Securing Internships & Work-Place On-Site Challenges

To secure an internship or a work-place on-site challenge, a student should have a complete working paper form handed in and should receive a working card according to their age range. You can visit the main office or use the digital copy to print your own at home. You will need a digital copy of i-9 form filled out for your verification interview after receiving your working papers. All digital forms are accessible down below, download the pdf forms for both and fill it out as explained.

Step 1. Working Papers
Step 2. Document Collection
Step 3. Complete Applications
Step 4. Verification Interview
Step 4b. Bulk Verification Interviews
Step 5. Internship selection

BASE has many partners in NYC where students can connect and experience work life in a carefully managed way. You can refer back to the Computer Science web page to see some of the list of partners. Typically, students earn $16 per hour and choose an industry, civic organization or a non-profit to work with. Work-place On-Site Challenges are paid a specific stipends for a specific period of time.

There are many sources of funding and they all require specific paperwork and applications. However, the main process begins with WORKING PAPERS. Apply for these via the MAIN OFFICE.

The CareerPathways Internships (CTE ISP or SWEF) are the main fund for INTERNSHIPS. This must be completed via the page participants.careerpathways.nyc.

After you have Working Papers, complete the CTE Profile and Application for the internship or work-place learning project on the Career pathways website and make sure that you are I9 Verified. If you do not see a GREEN check next to your I9 Status AND you have COMPLETED PAGE 2 then you need to schedule a VERIFICATION INTERVIEW.

Schedule a Virtual Verification Session 
Students can schedule their own individual verification appointments if they miss a blitz or mass verification in their school. Students may sign up for a single slot using any of the Calendly links below depending on their availability.  Please see the Work Based Learning Coordinator for details.

April Guscott: https://calendly.com/aguscott
Georgette Thompson: https://calendly.com/all_boroughs_wbl
Viola Harris: https://calendly.com/si_queenswbl
Jessica Marsten: https://calendly.com/bronx_wbl
Danielle Mooney: https://calendly.com/brooklyn_manhattan

Verification Interviews are virtual and require you to show 4 documents:

Signed Social Security Card
ID
Working Papers
I-9 document)

Career Pathways

This is the website that holds the number of work-based learning hours that a student has earned, application and acceptance of WBL opportunities, employee evaluations, paystub tracking information, resume and I-9 documentation, and so much. Students will refer to it often as students of BASE. Students seeking a CTE diploma under the software engineering pathway need at least 54 work-based learning hours. Click on the image below to login.

Industry Scholars Program (ISP) - Cohort 1

ISP Internships are paid internships that pay our students at the minimum wage rate of $16/hour and up to 15 hours/week of work for two months (maximum 60 hours). The deadline to apply is Friday, Oct. 11th. Students must have their I9 documentation verified by Oct. 25th and complete the online training by Nov. 1st before they start their first day of work period of Nov. 7th - Dec. 20th. To learn more about ISP, click here.

Futures & Options Paid Internship Program

Futures and Options provides paid, mentored internships and career readiness workshops to high school juniors and seniors. Students acquire meaningful hands-on work experience, gain entry to small businesses, nonprofits, government agencies, and multinational corporations, while making connections and creating networks that can last a lifetime. The deadline to apply is Friday, Oct. 11th. To learn more about Futures and Options, click here.