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Join The AEM Movement Internship!
The AEM Energy Champion Internship is a real-world educational program for high school students to learn professional and life skills through on-the-job apprenticeship working as a professional energy management consulting team member. The students deliver to and support the implementation of our client’s Advanced Energy Management (AEM) Shutdown with ENERGY STAR solution.
Workforce Development is central to the AEM paid internship program. Our project-based learning equips students with a diverse skill set, including teamwork, data analytics, accounting, project and time management, client relations, and effective communication (both written and oral). Energy Champions also gain expertise in making presentations, troubleshooting unexpected issues, working through conflict resolution, creative problem-solving, and energy literacy. This transformative experience empowers students with heightened self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-belief, shaping their future paths.
This internship is aligned with Career and Technical Education high school credits in Washington state. In addition to school credits, the apprenticeship includes an accredited Energy Efficiency Practitioner (EEP™) certification through the Association of Energy Engineers. To learn more about this industry standard certification click here!
AEM Movement Intern:
Jack Gorman
“Through my internship, I’ve been able to make a positive environmental change.”
Empowering the Next Generation
How can better tools and infrastructure help the younger generation lead the charge in reducing CO2 emissions?
TESTIMONIAL
REALITY CHECK:
For large public and private commercial buildings, turning things off is a far bigger challenge than what we do at home every night. This bigger challenge is due to a variety of different actors such as larger equipment, more sophisticated controls, the impact of weather, the fact that the person opening the building in the morning is not the same person closing it at night, and the occasional after-hours activities.
The AEM Shutdown with ENERGY STAR Solution are energy conservation actions that aligns energy use in a facility with the activity taking place in the facility. Of the 8,760 hours in a year, most commercial buildings are unoccupied more than 50% of the time. The objective of the solution is simple, turn off everything that doesn’t need to be on, especially during unoccupied hours when no one is in the building.
The most successful organizations implementing and sustaining the AEM Shutdown with ENERGY STAR Solution first create and then grow their own high-performance energy conservation culture. This first step, a hyper-focus on conservation creates new procedures and behaviors that become fully integrated into the daily decisions of how people operate, schedule, and maintain their facility. Embedding an energy conservation culture ensures decades of sustainability generating significant cost, use and CO2 emissions reductions.