The Geoheritage Summer Internship
Participation in the Geoheritage Summer Internship provides students 15-18 years of age, who live in the Keweenaw Bay and Keweenaw Peninsula region, opportunities to develop skills in reading landscapes, local history and heritage, geology, GIS technology, navigation, listening, and communication. The internship will take place during two weeks in July, see details below.
Students will receive a $1,000 stipend for participation in the internship.
Note: You must participate in both weeks of the internship and complete all accompanying tasks to receive the stipend.
Applications are due June 1, 2022.
Geoheritage Field Experience
July 11-15, 2022
During the five-day Geoheritage Field Experience you will be a part of a team of Great Lakes knowledge holders, experts in Anishinaabemowin (Anishinaabe language), and geoscientists and geospatial scientists. Together we will visit sites around Keweenaw Bay by land and by water aboard the Michigan Tech Research Vessel Agassiz.
The field experience will help develop skills in:
geoscience content knowledge
geospatial technology
navigation
Anishinaabemowin
understanding history, culture, and heritage of our place
listening and communication
During the field experience you will collect and document your experience via photos, audio recordings, drawings, 360 virtual reality images. This information will be used in the second week of the internship in the Geospatial Workshop.
Geospatial Workshop
July 25-29, 2022
Following the Geoheritage Field Experience, you will participate in a five-day Geospatial Workshop led by experts at Michigan Tech’s Great Lakes Research Center. During the workshop you will develop skills in geospatial technologies through the design, creation, and publishing of an ARC GIS StoryMap as a reflection of your time in the field.