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National Park Service Designing the Parks Internships

The National Park Service (NPS) is contemplating creating several paid student internships for graduate, undergraduate, and high school students designed to complement the innovative Designing the Parks initiative. The National Park Service is a founding partner of Designing the Parks, which is a public-private partnership to promote the importance of well-designed public parks in contemporary society. The initiative provides a forum for collegial, interdisciplinary discussion through workshops, competitions, and pilot projects that aims to build a common foundation of design principles for guiding 21st century public park planning and design. (see www.designingtheparks.org for background and more information)

The purpose of the internships is to assist the NPS and its partners further refine six guiding principles, while building a diverse base of young, prospective design and planning professionals knowledgeable of the design, planning, and preservation work of the National Park Service.

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Internship #1: Design, Planning, and Preservation in the National Park Service
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
For: Phase #1: graduate students; Phase #2: graduate, undergraduate, and high school students

The NPS is looking for creative, positive, independent students to assist in building and participating in an innovative paid internship with the National Park Service. A diverse body of students will be considered from Philadelphia area graduate, undergraduate, and high schools. The internship objective is to expose students to the range of design, planning and historic preservation activities in the NPS. The internship will take place in two phases:

Phase #1: Plan, Develop and Implement Internship
For Graduate students only

This phase is open to graduate students of planning, landscape architecture, architecture, historic preservation and related disciplines. Intern will work closely with design professionals in the National Park Service Northeast Regional Office to create the structure, activities, work assignments and products of an eight week summer internship program (see description below).

Anticipated hourly rate: Hourly rate determined based upon education and experience

Duration: 6 hours/week: 8 weeks: Winter 2011/early spring 2012

Phase #2: Explore Planning, Design and Historic Preservation in the National Park Service
For Graduate, undergraduate, and high school students

This phase is open to graduate and undergraduate students of planning, landscape architecture, architecture, historic preservation and related disciplines, and motivated high school students interested in learning about design and planning fields. Four student interns (one graduate student, one undergraduate student, and two high school students) will work closely with professionals and park staff in the Northeast Regional Office and Philadelphia area national parks (Independence, Valley Forge, Hopewell Furnace) completing assignments that expose the team to the range of design, planning, and preservation projects underway in the NPS. Students will learn from each other and from the NPS professionals while obtaining real world experience in designing, planning and preserving some of our nation’s most cherished public places-its national parks.

Anticipated hourly rate: Hourly rate determined based upon education and experience

Time Frame: 8 weeks: Mid June through Mid August, 2012

Internship #2: Designing the Parks Awards Program
Location: Denver, Colorado
For: graduate and undergraduate students

The NPS needs an energetic student of landscape architecture, architecture, planning and/or historic preservation to assist the National Park Service plan, organize, and execute its second Designing the Parks awards program. Work includes organizing web graphics and announcements, updating submission guidelines and requirements, preparing e/lists to publicize event, working with Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy to update registration interface, and answering questions of potential submitters. Those interested should have strong interest in architectural and landscape architectural design and planning, general awarenessof design competitions, excellent computer skills, and strong organizational skills.

Anticipated hourly rate: Hourly rate determined based upon education and experience

Duration: Ten hours/week; 26 weeks, Fall 2011-Spring 2012


Submission:

Submit the following items by e/mail

Statement of Interest
Resume

For Philadelphia internship:
Shaun Eyring
Chief, Resource Planning and Compliance
National Park Service, Northeast Regional Office
Shaun_eyring@nps.gov

For Denver Internship:
Rodger Evans
Chief Design and Construction, Western Division
National Park Service, Denver Service Center
Rodger_evans@nps.gov