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Whiz Kid: Cailah Moschella
The sophomore at Suffolk University donned a carpenter's apron during spring break at a volunteer project and spent the summer doing an internship.
This week’s Whiz Kid features a young adult, college student Cailah Moschella.
Cailah is a sophomore at Suffolk University in downtown Boston where she is studying criminal justice.
She spent from June to the end of August on her summer internship at the Middleton House of Correction, doing a bit of everything.
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That included shadowing employees during prisoner intakes, office work and tutoring.
She returned to school last week.
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Cailah is in interested in police work.
The Swampscott HIgh School graduate, Class of 2010, traces her interest to another internship-like experience.
As a student at the high school she shadowed Swampscott police Lt. Rose Cheever.
Cailah said she liked the variety of duties that the job offera and the chance to help people.
Cailah is no stranger to helping.
During Spring Break, in March, she was one of more than 100 Suffolk University students who dedicated their spring break to helping others. Moschella traveled to Denver to help build homes at a Habitat for Humanity site, working on several homes.
Some of the people she worked alongside were going to be moving into these homes.
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