ITW David Speer Academy Intern is #proudtobeITW

At the ITW David Speer Academy, students have the chance to gain professional experience outside of the classroom. Every member of the senior class is given the opportunity to complete an internship with ITW or a partner. For Sanfina Foerster, she chose to spend her senior year interning at Working Bikes, an organization that repairs and refurbishes bikes, which are then redistributed to local and global communities. Sanfina‘s final project focused on her role at Working Bikes, where she was responsible for helping build and refurbish bikes. This internship taught her accountability and persistence, as refurbishing a bike on her own required a lot of hard work. She discovered that she loved having a hands-on job and was able to apply the skills she learned at Working Bikes to help repair her friend’s car. Sanfina’s experience sparked her interest in fixing vehicles and gave her the skills needed to achieve her goal of building a car. Through her internship Sanfina discovered her interest in engineering and machinery. She loved working with her hands to solve problems, and because of this experience she plans to attend Colorado Mesa University with a major in Mechanical Engineering. We are proud to be fostering the next generation of engineers through the ITW David Speer Academy.