Lake Shore Senior Kaiden H. Earns a Skill Struck Internship
| ANGOLA, NY – Lake Shore High School senior Kaiden H. is one of six students chosen for an internship with Skill Struck, the company that makes computer science lessons for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. |
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| Kaiden knows those lessons well. Last year he took AP Computer Science with Michael Drezek, and the class used Skill Struck’s Voyage platform all year. For his final project, he coded his own game from scratch. |
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| When Skill Struck went looking for interns, it reached out to teachers whose students use its lessons. Mr. Drezek passed it along, Kaiden applied, and after a series of interviews he got the spot. |
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6students chosen for the internship
40hours of work, Sept. 15 to Dec. 17
100%remote, from Lake Shore
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| Kaiden works in quality assurance. He goes through Skill Struck’s courses lesson by lesson, the way a student would. Right now it’s a course on HTML, the code behind every web page. When something is off, like a video that cuts out, a step that doesn’t make sense, or an auto-grader that marks working code wrong, he sends it to his supervisor and the team fixes it. The interns’ feedback has already turned into new features, like flashcards students can use to review a lesson. |
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| The team works together on Slack, and the interns meet every Tuesday night. Guests have included Skill Struck’s CEO and the developer who built the course Kaiden is testing. Skill Struck is based in Salt Lake City, and as far as Kaiden knows, he’s the only intern this far east. |
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| The internship is unpaid. “You really just get professional experience,” Kaiden said, “and it does open up job opportunities.” |
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| Kaiden is head of web development for Eagles Manufacturing, runs the website for the Green & White student newspaper, and is part of Eagle News. After graduation he wants to study computer science, software engineering or IT. His dad works in IT and server management, and Kaiden would love to find a way to tie in his other passion, sports. |
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| His advice for younger students who are into computers: |
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“Involve yourself in everything you can, but don’t involve yourself in everything just because you can. Spend your time prioritizing what matters to you.”Kaiden H., Class of 2027
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| And when a class gets hard, he said, stick to it: “Never give up.” |
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