Internship Program

Internship Profiles

Sterling College’s Internship Program encourages students to bridge their first-year, classroom, field, and Work Program experiences to an internship and explore a potential career. As students enter their second year, internships provide a springboard to focus on a major course of study. Students secure internships throughout the United States and around the world. The following are some Internship Profiles:

Brandon Hill

The Beehive Design Collective

Winter 2008

Machias, ME

Media Liaison & Campaign Planner

The Beehive Design Collective is an organization of politically engaged volunteers working to “cross pollinate the grassroots,” with large, collaboratively produced pen and ink posters and international education campaigns. Brandon lived collectively at the Beehive in Machias, managing the distribution of posters and preparing for a new graphics campaign about capitalism and coal extraction in Appalachia. In this photo, Brandon is presenting the Beehive’s developing project in Chattanooga, TN.

Max Robert Constant

The Green Mountain Club

Summer 2008

Waterbury Center, VT

Field Naturalist & Lead Caretaker

Max’s position included long hours with many challenges and many rewards. Max kept the summit, visitor center, and overnight sites staffed and ensured duties were completed. His work involved creating crew schedules and acting as the communication link from the field crew to the Program Director. Organizing, and maintaining tools and equipment also fell under his hat. In the above photo, Max is hiking down from a long day on the summit of Mt. Mansfield.

Angeliki Salonikios

The Peregrine Fund

Summer 2008

Van Horn, TX

Northern Aplomado Hack Site Attendant

Angie interned with the non-profit organization, The Peregrine Fund, reintroducing the endangered Northern Aplomado Falcon back into its northern extent. Her work included looking after young falcons on a 90,000-acre ranch in West Texas. She said the job required long days and patience as they sought to identify the falcons. In the above photo, Angie is on the left with her hack partner, Christine Duffy. They are putting newly arrived young falcons into the hack boxes.

Monica Kopp

Student Conservation Association

Summer 2008

Olympic National Park, WA

Trail Crew Leader

Monica spent the summer working with the National Park Service in Olympic National Park of Washington state. Monica worked in the backcountry opening trails devastated during storms of 2006 and 2007. She worked clearing miles of brush, digging drains, repairing trail tread, and using chainsaws to cut massive old growth trees off the trail. In the above photo Monica is posing for a photo with a huge 32-inch saw (and would otherwise be donning safety equipment).