Photos by Sandra Michaud
ALCS Fall Internship Showcase 112818
ALCS Fall Internship Showcase 112818
Jessi Hobby worked with the candidates in the Democratic Party with mentor Maggie Billings
ALCS Fall Internship Showcase 112818
Jessi worked fundraising, making phone calls and going door to door among other things.
ALCS Fall Internship Showcase 112818
Samuel Scott worked with the WNMU IT department taking apart old electronics and removing the hard drives.
ALCS Fall Internship Showcase 112818
Samuel worked with mentor Sean Rees. The project, in part, provided security for items that had used obsolete technology.
ALCS Fall Internship Showcase 112818
Ashley Elliott worked in the Sixth Street Elementary School with mentor Lesliette Quesada.
ALCS Fall Internship Showcase 112818
Ashley wants to be a teacher. She said that some days she was able to actually teach the class herself.
ALCS Fall Internship Showcase 112818
Xavier Khera tells Leah Chastain about his project with Richard Felgar, the New Crop Program.
ALCS Fall Internship Showcase 112818
The project is attempting to produce viable crops using native plants such as Giant Sacaton and Apache Red Grass.
ALCS Fall Internship Showcase 112818
The YCC Garden Crew. Danny Mahl, Samuel Medina, Soloman Lazzell, Carlos Arias, Kenya Leahy, Sarah Lynn and William Scott.
ALCS Fall Internship Showcase 112818
Livia Reed interned with Dr. Thomas Gruszka as a math tutor at WNMU
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Livia’s project.
ALCS Fall Internship Showcase 112818
Sterling Wecks tells Robert and Jessica Scott about her internship at the Javalina Coffee House
ALCS Fall Internship Showcase 112818
Sterling said she was able to do everything at the Javalina except use the espresso machine, which cannot be operated by anyone under 18.
ALCS Fall Internship Showcase 112818
Anna Cantrell tells Sarah Guck about her internship with GRIP
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Anna’s project with mentor Allyson Siwik
ALCS Fall Internship Showcase 112818
Ava Bjornstad learned to be a trip planner with mentor Pete Rankin.
ALCS Fall Internship Showcase 112818
Ava designed a 100 percent student-led trip to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.
ALCS Fall Internship Showcase 112818
Atticus Andrews interned at WNMU welding with mentor Larry Martinez
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Atticus shows samples of welding work.
ALCS Fall Internship Showcase 112818
Dena Hillyer interned at End of the Road Ranch with Carol Johnson. She enjoyed working with the horses and is interested in a career in biology.
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Dena said that non-profits such as End of the Road Ranch are important to the community.
Junior and Senior students from Aldo Leopold Charter School welcomed guests to their Fall Internship Showcase, where each student displayed a poster of what he or she had done and learned during the internship, and explained to their guests what was involved in the program.
More than 20 students participated in this year’s program, both individually and in a group, the YCC Projects. The internships ranged from welding, IT and computer science, to non-profits, school teaching, trip planning and politics. Some of interns worked with plants, some with animals; others worked in stores, a dental office and schools.
The YCC Garden Crew project trained with professional gardeners and put in time on downtown landscaping, the botanical garden, maintaining greenhouses, seed collecting and organizing, and educating elementary school students.