Emir Ali, a Smithsonian Institution management support assistant, works with Mionna Smith, a Project SEARCH intern who was recently hired by the Smithsonian. Smith is one of seven young adults who graduated from Smithsonian’s Project SEARCH program this week. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)Today, there are over 500 Project SEARCH host sites around the world that offer hands-on job training and classroom instruction to young people with needs. Orli, who has a 19-year-old son with autism, has seen her Project SEARCH interns excel at tasks like data entry and digitization. In her current role, she will train other Project SEARCH interns.

Source: Washington Post June 14, 2019 00:15 UTC