Welcome High School grads in intelligence and tech jobs

I have always been a big supporter of “Learning by Doing”.

- Henry J. Schumacher

Not because I was kicked out of school at the age of 16. It’s because I learned by doing at every career step I made. From my apprenticeship to my AirForce time, from working at various locations for Hoechst in Germany, in South Africa and the Philippines, from creating the first European Chamber of Commerce in the world in Manila to taking over the management of that organization.

I have presented by ideas about ‘learning by doing’ to committees in both Houses of Congress.

With that background I was super excited when I read the story of software company Palantir, which mostly specializes in intelligence-gathering and military applications, and launched a new internship program that recruits the brightest minds right out of high school.