[brianto2010]

Internship programs for high school students. I see many for college students, probably because they need it more, but few are targeted towards high school students. Rather than work at a lower-level job, they could enrich themselves in a co-op, both furthering their knowledge and developing industry connections (and possibly make money on the side).

[mace]

This is an interesting idea. The vast majority of kids in High School are employed/exploited by fast food restaurants. Hundreds of years kids of High School age were under some type apprenticeship. It would very interesting to bring back something like this today.