[geogu-l] internship announcement

[Todd Faubion]

A fabulous for-credit GIS internship that includes a $500 stipend (Professor
Elwood has kindly offered to supervise the internship credits).  Remember,
students who get jobs are students who do internships first!

For-Credit Summer Internship with Stipend: Washington Native Science and
Engineering Program

The Washington Native Science and Engineering program's (WN-SEP) objective
is to foster students' interest in engineering and science, by motivating
them to take high school chemistry, physics and trigonometry classes.
Completing these courses prior to college is a major indicator for success
in STEM university degree programs (STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Mathematics). WN-SEP is a one-week summer program on the University of
Washington Seattle campus (July 12-17th, 2009) that teaches high school
students how to build their own computers.  WN-SEP provides each
participating student with lodging, food, and equipment and training to
assemble a top-of-the-line computer to take home for their own personal or
academic use. The program is operated by Washington Mathematics, Science,
and Engineering Achievement (Washington MESA).

Washington MESA is seeking an intern to develop and implement several GIS
and GPS learning activities for the WN-SEP summer session and for the
students' ongoing learning during the upcoming academic year. For the WN-SEP
summer session, the intern will develop and supervise a geo-caching activity
on the UW campus that will teach students about GPS technologies. We would
like the intern to develop some learning activities that will introduce the
students to ArcGIS software, which will be installed on the computers they
build during the WN-SEP week, and enable them to use GPS and GIS to document
resources in their local communities (Kingston, Lummi and Yakima). For
example, a lesson might involve the students in mapping local gathering
sites for traditional roots used in ceremonies or for traditional food
preparation. These lessons will be specific to the Native communities being
served and will be developed along with the MESA First Nations coordinators.
Internship activities will be supervised by Lucy Casale, Curriculum
Coordinator for Washington MESA. Washington MESA will provide a $500
stipend, and the internship may be taken for credit, using Geography 496:
Internship in Geography. Sarah Elwood will supervise the academic work
completed for the Geog 496 credits. Please note that for the successful
summer intern, there is the possibility of continued involvement with this
program in the coming academic year, to visit the participating communities
and work with the students as they are continuing their independent GIS
activities.

Position requirements: At least two UW GIS courses, and experience using
GPS. An interest in cultural geographies, community participation, and
education. Must be available during the week of 7/12-7/17.

Contact: Lucy Casale, 206-543-0562., lcasale4 at u.washington.edu



Todd Faubion
University of Washington
Department of Geography Undergraduate Adviser
tfaubion at u.washington.edu
206-793-1252