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SAP® Innovation Awards 2020 Entry Pitch Deck

Houston Independent School District

Empowering Generation Z in SAP at HISD

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Company Information

Headquarters

Industry

Web site

Houston, Texas United States of America

Public Sector (Education)

WWW.Houstonisd.org

• Largest school district in Texas

• Seventh-largest school district in the United States

• 280 schools

• 209,772 students

• 61.84% Hispanic

• 24.02% African American

• 4.05% Asian

• 8.70% White

• About 100 languages spoken

• 74.93% economically disadvantaged


Challenge

Solution

Outcome

Everything that I learned in

the SAP Internship program

is what I am know studying

in college. I have a greater

understanding of the subject

matter and I have real life

experience in items that we

are discussing in class.

Jennifer Moreno – HISD

graduate and current

University of Houston

Downtown Student.

Houston Independent School District

HISD started an SAP Internship Program 5 years ago to help students have “hands on” experience using SAP.

That internship program has grown to the point that HISD is the first high school district to be accepted into the

University Alliance. HISD is currently teaching an ERP / SAP class to 10 th graders at Sam Houston Math,

Science and Technology Center High School.

100%

How can HISD a SAP customer since 1997, leverage our knowledge of SAP to prepare our students for college

and their future careers in the business world?

Empowering Gen Z

100% of SAP Interns have applied, been accepted and have

attended college.


Business Challenges and Objectives

How do High School students learn about SAP and what it is like to work in an office environment? Most of

the students at HISD have never been exposed to an office environment. How can a student who has never

had that exposure even dream of a career in Business or Information Technology. The SAP Internship

Program was started to help HISD what opportunities working with SAP could be available to them in their

future. In 2014, HISD decided to provide a “hands on” SAP Internship program to students. In this program

the students receive SAP training and a mentor in the SAP Support area whom they will work with. Students

resolve production problems and requests with their mentors in the HISD Production System. Three students

have written ABAP programs that are used by HISD Business Partners on a daily basis. In 2019, HISD has

taken SAP learning to a new level by teaching an ERP/SAP class at one of our High Schools. HISD is the first

High School District to be a full member of the University Alliance.

• The HISD OneSource (SAP) Student Internship is a program for high school juniors and seniors that requires a semester(s) commitment and

allows students to explore their career interests, gain valuable work experience, and possibly earn credit toward their high school diploma.

• OneSource interns develop business skills, learn about hot technology topics, network with the pros, and more.

• Interns work closely with our OneSource (SAP) team.

• Project work includes requirement gathering gap analysis testing and implementation of SAP Modules.

• ABAP Program development.


Project or Use Case Details

Student Internship Application Process

Student Internship Qualifications: This internship is open to high school juniors

and seniors.

• Students must complete the preliminary application. The preliminary application will

include the students submitting their own resume.

• Students must attend one of the Student Information Meetings.

• Students must maintain a 3.0 or above grade average.

• Students must provide their own transportation.

• While in the Internship Program, students must apply for at least 2 colleges.

• Students must have one teacher and one counselor complete the faculty

recommendation form.



Student Selection and Placement into the OneSource Student Internship

Program:

We have a team of mentors, managers/directors that review each application. In some cases,

students may be required to come in for an interview. There is a section within the application

that indicates areas of interest. Based upon their selection, we place the students

in that area.

Internship Training

All student interns receive SAP basic

training prior to working with the

OneSource (SAP) Mentors.



Working with Mentors/Developing Projects per SAP Modules

Mentors are selected from our department. They specialize in the following areas:

• SAP software security

• ABAP Development

• SAP ECC

• Nutrition Services

• Plant Maintenance/Transportation

• Supplier Relationship Management/Procurement

• Warehouse Management

• Workflow Administration

• PROCARD

• Travel Management

• IT Infrastructure



Working with SAP Mentors



Additional manuals are given to each intern based upon the mentor’s area. Mentors

demonstrate daily duties. Interns attend meetings, trainings and field assignments with their

mentor.

Depending upon the school and the student’s schedules, interns come in 2-3 days a week.



Example of Student Intern Schedule: Student intern working with Mentor (Business

Systems Analyst) specializing in monitoring the district credit cards. (ProCard/Finance)

Week One: Intern will visit the Accounting Department and learn the process of how credit card

transactions are imported into the SAP System.

Week Two - Three: Intern will work with the BSA to correct tables if needed and assist the

Procurement/Accounting team with troubleshooting technical needs.

Week Four: Intern will visit and interview (for the weekly Internship Newsletter) the Procurement

team (ProCard Administrators) that works with the bank that handles credit card

activity. Intern will see the entire ProCard process from beginning to end.

Week Five-Eight: Intern will work on district customer issues with mentor’s assistance.



Module Exit Presentation

Upon completing the eight-week session, interns must successfully complete a Module Exit Presentation. Students are given the presentation guidelines which must include:

• An overview of the internship area including a brief description of the internship areas of service.

• A description of what was learned from the experience and how it can be applied in the future.

• A description of the challenges and successes experienced during the internship module.



Mentors, managers, and

guests will use the

Presentation Rubric to

grade the interns on

preparedness, time and

content of their

presentations.

The feedback is given to

the interns and we work

on how to improve their

presentations for the next

cycle.


Business or Social IT Human Empowerment

Benefits and Outcomes

ABAP Programming Students

HISD was the first school district in the nation to have four student interns to complete ABAP

programs that the district currently uses. Meredith Spiller created 3 programs that HISD

currently uses.




Just this year alone our interns completed:

44 hours in SAP software security

44 hours in SAP workflow administration

50 hours in ABAP Development

12 hours in Finance and

55 hours of Networking and Infrastructure

Our interns have done such a great job

that for the past four years we were able

to offer summer employment with pay.

During the summer, interns have the

option to work with a mentor that they

worked with during the school year or

work on projects with new mentors within

our department.




Every year we have had the opportunity to take our interns to the Houston ASUG

Chapter meetings. Two of our interns interviewed for jobs, and one worked as a

summer intern for one of the companies.




Throughout the course of the five years we have

had a total of 60 students participate in the

program.

All students that have participated in the program

where accepted into higher education institutions.

The majority of our interns have gone on to major

in technology fields or after completing the

program changed their majors in college to

technology fields.

We have had one student intern to pursue a

certification in SAP Security after participating in

the internship program.

Student Success




Graduates of the Internship Program


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We are using SAP to teach High School Students about

ERP (SAP) and business practices. HISD is the only High

School District is the US that has been accepted to the

University Alliance and we are the first School District in

the United States to teach SAP to our students. Our first

class has 27 students in it but within 2 years we expect to

have over 150 students taking SAP classes.

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Additional Information

Implementing the OneSource Student Internship with the SAP

University Alliance Program

Houston Independent School District is one of the newest members of the SAP University

Alliances. The Career and Technology Education Department will be working with our first

school - Houston MSTC High School, to implement the teaching tools from the SAP University

Alliances (SAP Learning HUB, SAP University Alliances Workshops) in order to build a new

ERP career pathway for our students.

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SAP Innovation Awards 2020 Entry Pitch DeckPitch Deck template for the 2019 SAP Innovation Awards Author Zwinakis, Michaela (external - Project) Created Date 1/12/2020 12:02:22 PM