"This is your opportunity to imagine greater possibilities, create real-world solutions and inspire the world around you. This is your opportunity to find your passion. This is your opportunity to let your light shine and be powerful beyond measure."
Huckabee, a Fort-Worth educational architectural firm created a unique summer internship program for local high school students six years ago known as the Next Generation Design Institute. NGDI gives students the opportunity to learn the business and practice of architecture in a real-world setting. To qualify for this competitive two-week program, students apply for, interview and compete for positions. Once selected, students are broken into teams and are given a project to complete over the course of the program. In doing so, students are given the opportunity to meet with executives, travel to jobsites, design amongst other architects, present their ideas and concepts to large groups and also travel to Texas Tech University to see what it is like to major in architecture, go to studios and be on a college campus. Students spend two days at Texas Tech.
Six students will be selected for the 2008 program which will begin in June. As a team, they will decide on a project, create conceptual designs and present it to an audience of Huckabee team members, parents and family, local school district personnel and the media. There will also be a prestigious panel of judges who will select the team who designs the best solution for their unique set of challenges and requirements.
