Skidmore Funded Summer Internship Award Program
Skidmore's Funded Summer Internship Award Program
, initiated in 2009
, provide
s amazing summer experiences for Skidmore students.
The Summer Internship Award's Program was started and funded by various members of the Skidmore community and
offered eight students $2500 to help defray the costs while completing internships of their choice.
The Doyle Family Internship Awards, Alumni Board Internship Awards, and the Skidmore Funded Internship Awards were established to assist students
interested in doing unpaid internships, volunteer, and community service projects.
Preference was given to students with demonstrated financial need. These projects were required to be deemed by the College as an experiential educational opportunity that would add to the student's knowledge base in their major or career field of interest.
As mentioned in August's Scope Online, "Eight Skidmore students flexed and deepened their career skills this summer with internships at businesses and organizations as diverse as a Manhattan recording studio, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Vermont Earth Institute, Amnesty International, and television's popular Nickelodeon cable channel."
The College's new internship awards
are designed to make it possible for students to gain valuable work experience in their career field of choice by participating in unpaid internships, volunteer, or community-service projects.
Donations for student internship awards are being accepted from alumni, faculty, parents, college employees, corporations, and foundations. For more information, contact Lori Eastman (
leastman@skidmore.edu), Skidmore's director of development.
Internship Award Recipients for Summer 2009 Include:
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Kalu Long, Vermont Earth Institute
My name is Kalu Long. I am a senior and political economy major returning to Skidmore after a year abroad studying globalization. While traveling and studying, I saw environmental, social, and cultural injustices that a political economy course never could have prepared me for.
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Ally Jane Grossan, The Continuum International Publishing Group
My name is Ally Jane Grossan and I am a senior hailing from Los Angeles, CA. I am an International Affairs and Government double major with an English minor graduating in 2010. This summer I was given the incredible opportunity to intern at Continuum International Publishing.
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Kamen Fon, Kings County District Attorney's Office
When we watch trials on television, we often see a lawyer in suit and tie walking through a big court filled with people who are waiting for the coming trial. However, when I worked at the Kings County District Attorney's Office, I realized that this scene is only a small part of the whole trial.
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Elana Hazghia, Amnesty International
With the help of the Doyle Family Internship Award, I was able to successfully take part in an internship in the Developments Unit at Amnesty International this summer in New York City.
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Emily Schlemmer, Nickelodeon
When I arrived at Skidmore College, I found two disciplines that I was enthralled by: psychology and early childhood education. I made it my goal to bring these two disciplines together to better understand how children learn and what makes them excited about the learning process.
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Rachael Haas, Albright-Knox Art Gallery
When I think back to the beginning of this year and the start of my spring semester at Skidmore, I find it almost unbelievable that I managed to not only find but also secure the internship that I have recently completed.
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Erin Pruckno, The Saratogian
In my hometown, I discovered a knack and enthusiasm for journalism as I worked on my high school newspaper. Now, four years later I approach graduation and I've found areas of study that foster a potential career in journalismEnglish and anthropology. |
