Local students complete summer learning program at Coastal Electric

We love invest­ing in the next gen­er­a­tion … and giv­ing stu­dents a glimpse of the many reward­ing careers found at elec­tric co-ops!

This sum­mer, we had the priv­i­lege to work with Alex­is Rivera, a senior at Long Coun­ty High School. Alex­is com­plet­ed our Learn­ers Today, Lead­ers Tomor­row pro­gram, and spent his sum­mer with our IT Depart­ment.

Alex­is already knew a bit about Coastal Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive, as his moth­er, Nadia, serves as one of our help­ful cus­tomer ser­vice reps. Dur­ing his time in IT, Alex­is learned trou­bleshoot­ing, helped update phones and com­put­ers, and explored how sub­sta­tions tie in with IT.

Our Engi­neer­ing and Oper­a­tions Depart­ment was glad to wel­come Noah Atkin­son as a sum­mer engi­neer­ing intern. He is a 2021 grad­u­ate of Rich­mond Hill High School and recent­ly attend­ed Geor­gia South­ern Uni­ver­si­ty and is trans­fer­ring to the Uni­ver­si­ty of Geor­gia this fall.

Noah is major­ing in mechan­i­cal engi­neer­ing. Dur­ing his time at Coastal Elec­tric, Noah shad- owed employ­ees in var­i­ous roles in the Engi­neer­ing and Oper­a­tions Depart­ment, gain­ing hands-on expe­ri­ence with stak­ing, map­ping, elec­tri­cal engi­neer­ing for­mu­las, effi­cien­cy and bud­get­ing.

Noah even researched and ana­lyzed data for an out­door light­ing project plan that the co-op can use to max­i­mize sav­ings on out­door light­ing.