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Tag: high school internship program

Interns find elk calf and ‘sense of wonder’

November 4, 2021

Joe Yarkovich and GSMNP interns

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park high school intern program provides the opportunity for high school students from communities near[…]

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Bird banding to help monitor bird populations in GSMNP

September 12, 2019

Noelle Boswick holding Carolina Wren

GSMNP high school summer interns spent six weeks learning about the resources of the park and the work of the[…]

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Interpretation encourages GSMNP visitors to care for park resources, build emotional connections with park

September 5, 2019

GSMNP interns displaying interpretation projects

Learning to talk with GSMNP visitors about park resources  was one of the skills the GSMNP high school summer interns[…]

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Elk monitoring in Cataloochee Valley

August 24, 2019

interns using telemetry equipment

Monitoring elk with telemetry was one of the skills the GSMNP high school summer interns learned during their six-week internship.[…]

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GSMNP high school interns learn about Park, explore NPS career opportunities

August 15, 2019

GSMNP high school interns 2019

Sixteen high school students from schools in North Carolina and Tennessee were GSMNP interns this summer. For six weeks, the[…]

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