by Robin Runyan | Nov 9, 2021 | Education & Employment, Energizing Youth, Our People
Every summer, our company hosts 80-90 students in our Summer Youth Internship Program. Many of these students are just out of high school and live in Detroit. We go beyond a normal internship and provide students with a variety of ways to help them in their...
by Robin Runyan | Sep 29, 2021 | Education & Employment, Energizing Youth, Our People, People, Your Neighborhood
Did you know that one in 54 young people are diagnosed with autism? This summer, students in our IMPACT program at Cody High School learned more about their fellow students with autism and organized a 1.54 mile awareness walk on the final day of the program. IMPACT...
by Bill Blaul | Sep 27, 2018 | Education & Employment, Energizing Youth, Progress
On their way to starting careers, countless students have endured summer internships hyped as job experience but instead became a slog of opening mail, filing, answering phones and waiting around. Not so at DTE Energy where this summer more than 1,000 college and high...
by DTE Social Media Team | Sep 13, 2017 | Energizing Youth
“What made me love it so much was the people at their jobs, they love their jobs. And that made me love the job, too.” That’s William Palmer, one of about 500 high school and college students who worked at DTE Energy during the summer, describing his experience on the...
by Stephen Tait | Aug 14, 2017 | Our People
DTE Energy will hire about 850 student interns to work at the company this year — and about 500 of those high school and college students are working at the company this summer. One of them is Asia Harris, 18. Asia is part of DTE’s newest student hiring initiative...