Mentorship meeting at CAST Tech in September 2019

Mentorship meeting at CAST Tech in September 2019

Mentorships! What an astonishing matter. H-E-B has been involved in mentoring students as long as I tin recollect. Some are official, and some are unofficial; some are with internal H-E-B Partners (employees), some are students from schools across Bexar canton, and some are with schools beyond our county borders. No matter the location, mentorships are part of our amazing civilisation. That's one of the reasons why when CAST Schools was developing its first campus, CAST Tech, H-East-B leaders chose to be at the decision making table.

During the development of CAST Tech, H-East-B Chief Information Officer Gavin Gallagher sat in early meetings almost everything from edifice design, to school lunches, to computer languages. He pushed to ensure that Bandage Tech students had real-world experiences, including job shadowing, internships and more than. Gavin played a key role in supporting our H-E-B Information technology/Digital Partners, allowing them to volunteer on company time to connect with students.

Benefits of Mentorship

At H-E-B, we believe that whatsoever young person who seeks out a mentor should have i. Non only are they great for the mentee for career communication, life advice, and just evidently friendship, they are a slap-up resource for us to identify futurity talent early.

Currently nosotros have over twenty H-Eastward-B Partners mentoring students at Cast Tech, in departments and jobs ranging from Ain Brand Packaging and Design to UX Pattern and beyond. This is exciting for both the students and mentors, and many of our high school summer interns come from these mentoring relationships.

A few years back, I became an "unofficial" mentor for a Partner, Jeremy, who was right out of loftier school, heading to his first year of college, and working part-time at H-E-B. While he liked his job, he was not taking any steps to further his career—or life, for that matter. His father, a current general managing director at H-East-B, asked me to conversation with him. After several meetings and sharing some really tough feedback with him, his attitude changed, and he began to really put in the work to grow his career and excel in higher. Jeremy has grown into his role at H-E-B; he is at present a store leader, which for us is the equivalent of a modest business CEO. Today, Jeremy is mentoring Partners of his own. Sometimes hearing "direct talk" from someone other than your parents makes a divergence.

Entrance to CAST Tech High School in San Antonio

Katie Chain Program Manager HEB mentorships CAST Schools

Katie Concatenation

Mentorship Develops Our Future Workforce

H-Eastward-B will keep to support the CAST Schools network equally we truly believe our future leaders are a role of these astonishing schools. We honey that and so many of the pathways at CAST Schools—from coding, cyber security, user experience, advanced manufacturing, and applied science, to logistics, e-commerce, and retail leadership—represent growing needs at our company.

At H-E-B, I have the privilege to atomic number 82 our work connecting students with job shadowing, mentors, and ultimately internships and leadership roles at our company. I of the many reasons I love my job is my personal motto: "Recall that today you can not but make a difference in your own life, but in the life of others."

Charter Moms Chats

Watch Katie Chain, Program Manager at H-E-B, and Jason Salazar, senior at CAST Tech, talk with Inga Cotton virtually mentorship on Feb 25, 2022 at 4:00 PM Central live on Facebook and YouTube.

Katie Chain is an Instruction and Workforce Program Manager at H-Eastward-B. Katie has worked at H-Due east-B for over 22 years. In her electric current role, she builds relationships with educational partners across San Antonio and beyond to offer experiential learning opportunities for students and educators.

Jason Salazar is a student in the Bandage Tech class of 2021.

Read More About Cast Schools and Mentorship

  • "Guide to Enrolling in Bandage Schools for 2021–22,"San Antonio Charter Moms, Nov xix, 2020
  • "Mentoring Bandage Students in a Fourth dimension of Social Distancing," Bandage Schools, May 18, 2020
  • "College Prep Resource for San Antonio Charter School Students," Amy Johnson, San Antonio Charter Moms, November xiii, 2019
  • "Summer Internships Narrow the Opportunity Gap," Bekah McNeel,San Antonio Charter Moms, September 29, 2018
  • "Tech Bloc, AT&T Launch Mentorship Program at Bandage Tech High Schoolhouse," Edmond Ortiz, San Antonio Report, November 27, 2017
  • "Tech Bloc, AT&T launch mentorship plan for San Antonio's CAST Tech Loftier School," Samantha Ehlinger,San Antonio Express-News, November 26, 2017