Applications are now open for Summer 2025 internships
Northeast Kingdom Opportunities
Overview
As a follow-up to the successful 2024 NEK Community Resilience Summer Internship program, The Leahy Institute will fund housing at Sterling College for up to 12 Summer 2025 NEK interns.
Travis Reynolds, UVM Community Development and Applied Economics faculty member, will serve as an ongoing participant in the program. Community members and intern hosts will work with Travis to plan and present a pre-service orientation and weekly intern cohort gatherings throughout the summer.
Kristen Andrews, UVM Internship Outreach and Engagement Coordinator at the Career Center and the Leahy Institute, will support employers throughout the process as they develop intern job descriptions, post the positions, choose candidates, host their interns, and provide feedback.
Leahy Institute staff will provide assistance in identifying and applying for grants to cover intern wages.
Summer, 2025 Northeast Kingdom Intern Opportunities below:
Local Food and Farmers Market Communications Intern
Host: Center for an Agricultural Economy/Hardwick Farmer's Market
Summary: Maintain our new website, help to build & create content for our social media channels, and be present at all farmers markets throughout the course of the internship to help with various tasks, projects, and data collection efforts.
Community School Summer Intern - Hazen Union School
Host: Orleans SW Supervisory Union
Summary: Play a key role in planning and executing summer programming for students, engaging in community organizing, and fostering relationships with local partners to deepen and sustain our work.
Community Garden Food Security Intern - Glover Equity
Host: Glover Equity
Summary: Work with volunteers to plan, cultivate and promote community garden space designed to support local food security.
Camp Counselor - Rural Arts Collaborative
Host: Rural Arts Collaborative
Summary: Shape the culture of a group of campers and to be THE PERSON that kids fondly remember when they think about their summer camp experience.
Summer Camp Activity Expert - Rural Arts Collaborative
Host: Rural Arts Collaborative
Summary: Do you love working with kids? Do you have a special set of skills that you would like to teach children in grades 1 - 7 this summer? The nature-based, creative enrichment summer camp, WonderKids Summer Enrichment, wants you to join our team!
Camp Health & Safety Coordinator - Rural Arts Collaborative
Host: Rural Arts Collaborative
Summary: Ensure that all appropriate safety precautions are taken and that children’s health and safety needs are met during the Summer Enrichment Program. Stocks, manages, and staffs the First Aid station.
Camp Administrative Site Coordinator - Rural Arts Collaborative
Host: Rural Arts Collaborative
Summary: Collaborate with, delegate to, and lead Behavioral, Health and Safety, and Enrichment Site Coordinators, Counselors, and Jr Counselors to ensure the program runs smoothly and all safety and reporting requirements are met.
Summer Camp Enrichment Coordinator - Rural Arts Collaborative
Host: Rural Arts Collaborative
Summary: On-site point person responsible for all aspects of the summer camp enrichment program. Delegates tasks to the Experts, Counselors, and Jr. Counselors to ensure smooth operations.
Rural News Reporter - Hardwick Gazette
Host: Hardwick Gazette
Summary: Provide coverage of government, school and community meetings, along with some arts and educational activities as well as in-depth reporting on areas in the Gazette’s primary coverage area.
Journalism Intern - Barton Chronicle
Host: Barton Chronicle
Summary: Gather accurate information about special events, interview people to confirm stories, write on a deadline, work with the editor and productions staff team to refine and improve draft copy, take photographs to go with stories.
Early Childhood Farm to School Intern
Host: 4 Seasons of Early Learning Childcare Center
Summary: Preparation and implementation of hands-on, farm-to-school educational opportunities for preschoolers, including the development of a new preschool farm-to-school curriculum, garden planning and maintenance and, daily care and assistance with educational activities for children ages 2 - 5 years.
Rural VT People’s Agroecology School Intern
Host: People’s Agroecology School
Summary: The intern will support three main activities within the People’s Agroecology School of VT, including a series of farm-based work brigades, the 2025 Short Course in People’s Agroecology, and the pilot season of the Food Sovereignty Growers’ Project.
White River Valley Opportunities
Overview
As a follow-up to the successful 2024 NEK Community Resilience Summer Internship program, The Leahy Institute will fund housing at Sterling College for up to 12 Summer 2025 NEK interns.
Travis Reynolds, UVM Community Development and Applied Economics faculty member, will serve as an ongoing participant in the program. Community members and intern hosts will work with Travis to plan and present a pre-service orientation and weekly intern cohort gatherings throughout the summer.
Kristen Andrews, UVM Internship Outreach and Engagement Coordinator at the Career Center and the Leahy Institute, will support employers throughout the process as they develop intern job descriptions, post the positions, choose candidates, host their interns, and provide feedback.
Leahy Institute staff will provide assistance in identifying and applying for grants to cover intern wages.
Summer, 2025 Northeast Kingdom Intern Opportunities below:
Child Nutrition Intern - White River Valley schools
Host: White River Valley Supervisory Union
Summary: Work to support the community's mission ensuring that all children have access to nutritious food, fostering their physical and cognitive development, and promoting their overall well-being.
Community Trail Work Intern - White River Valley schools
Host: White River Valley Supervisory Union
Summary: Assist with final implementation steps of the Bethel Vermont Outdoor Recreation Economic Collaborative (VOREC) grant. Primary focus will be on Bethel School Forest and Bethel Woods/Athletic Fields Multi Use Trail System tasks.
Makerspace Intern - White River Valley schools
Host: White River Valley Supervisory Union
Summary: Create "How to Guides" for our equipment including 3D printers, Laser Engraver, Sewing Machines, and Vinyl cutter & press based on models from other maker spaces. Develop and teach Maker Space trainings based on workshop models gleaned from Generator.
Communications and Outreach / Data Intern - White River Valley schools
Host: White River Valley Supervisory Union
Summary: Work to help the school system better tell its "story" by helping to publish a school newsletter. Work on a data integration project to help support teaching and learning across 10 towns and schools.
One Planet Summer School Camp Intern - White River Valley schools
Host: White River Valley Supervisory Union
Summary: The Enrichment Program Leader is responsible for designing and implementing high quality enrichment programming to campers. Programming will be based around a weekly theme chosen by Director and Site Coordinator.
One Planet Summer Camp Teaching Intern - White River Valley schools
Host: White River Valley Supervisory Union
Summary: Assist in the execution of enrichment programs with academic, physical, and/or enrichment focus for elementary school aged children.
Journalism Intern - White River Valley Herald
Host: White River Valley Herald
Summary: Learn about composition of news stories, get a look inside local government, conduct interviews throughout rural central Vermont.
Farm to School Intern - Vital Communities
Host: Vital Communities
Summary: Work within the Upper Valley Farm to School Network to bring together educators, farmers, and community members to build and maintain farm to school efforts in the classrooms, cafeterias, and communities of our region.
Agroforestry and Garden Intern - Regeneration Corps
Host: Regeneration Corps
Summary: Work under our Nursery and Project Manager to assist with maintenance of our nurseries, our Food Justice Garden, where we grow and distribute annual vegetables to local food shelves as well as helping to maintain some of our community food forest sites.
Library Communications Intern - Bethel Public Library
Host: Bethel Public Library
Summary: Create a website that serves a community based non-profit organization. Work with a team of library staff/trustees to prioritize goals for the summer. Research free/low cost cataloging programs that would service the needs of a small rural library.
Public Health and Educational Equity Intern - Bethel Health Center
Host: Bethel Health Center
Summary: Support the Health Center to improve school attendance and the link to health through data collection and analysis, communications, and data sharing and coordination of care.
Community Solutions Design Intern - Bethel Strong
Host: Bethel Strong
Summary: The Community Solutions Design Intern will focus on understanding community needs and designing effective systems or creative solutions in areas like communications, public spaces and events, volunteer recruitment, access to information, accessibility, and community development, and building community connections and partnerships.
Putting Community First: UVM Summer Interns Live and Learn in the NEK
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Interns respond to trying times in the summer of 2023
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