FYI - Fw: Student Conservation Association (SCA) wants your help!

[kate duttro]

----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Palka <Tim at sca-inc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 1:33 PM
Subject: Student Conservation Association (SCA) wants your help!


>
> Hello, my name is Tim Palka and work for the Student Conservation
> Association here in Seattle.  The Student Conservation Association, Inc.
> (SCA) offers college and adult environmental and cultural conservation
> internship opportunities in national parks and resource management areas
> nationwide, including Alaska and Hawaii.  SCA is the best way to start a
> conservation career.  Lasting from 12 weeks to 12 months, SCA programs
> provide natural and cultural conservation service to our nation's lands
> completing projects and engaging in activities such as backcountry patrol,
> wildlife monitoring, trail building, revegetation and restoration,
> environmental education, living history demonstrations, biological
research
> and endangered species studies.  SCA internships are expense paid,
> including: travel reimbursement, housing, living allowance, insurance,
> education award between $1,180 and $4,725, as well as loan deferment.  SCA
> offers candidates a current and comprehensive online listing of available
> internship positions through its website at http://www.sca-inc.org - you
can
> also download or request an application from the site.  SCA is a nonprofit
> educational organization founded in 1957 with headquarters in Charlestown,
> NH and offices in VA, WA and CA.  We also offer paid positions as a
> Conservation Work Crew Leader.  In this position, the leader will work
with
> 6-10 high school students on a conservation project located in the
> backcountry.  Another program is our Diversity Internship Program designed
> specifically for under represented populations.  All of our opportunities
> help students launch their conservation career.  I am writing you to
enlist
> your help to recruit students to fill all of these positions.  I would
like
> to work with you in setting up an appointment with you to talk about these
> programs and what they offer your students.  Please email me about the
> possibility of a meeting with you and/or speaking with your students.  My
> email is tim at sca-inc.org and my telephone number is 206-324-4649.  I am
also
> attaching an SCA Fact Sheet that can be opened as a Word document. Thank
you
> again for your time and I look forward to meeting with you.
> Sincerely,
> Tim Palka
> SCA NW Regional Recruiter
>
> My decision to join SCA was rather spontaneous. I thought, "I'm an
> environment major and this looks pretty cool - so why not?" What I found
was
> way more than cool. It was really life changing. It opened my eyes to what
> really mattered in my life. It made me question who I was and what I
valued,
> more than any other time in my life...I am thankful for the time I had
with
> SCA. It truly helped give me the strength to pursue my true passions in
> life. SCA taught me to be true to myself. - Nicole Avallone, Wichita
> Mountain NWR 1997
>
> "My time as an RA in 1992 was without question the best summer I've ever
> spent. What an impact it had on me! After that summer I knew which
direction
> I wanted my career to follow.  I have had several jobs which I don't think
I
> would have gotten without my SCA experience. I'll cherish my SCA memories
> forever." - Delana Friedrich, 1992 PrinceWilliam Forest.
>
>
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