Are you between 15-18 years of age and looking for an exciting summer internship opportunity?

The Geoheritage Summer Internship is a two-week long experiential training program that provides opportunities for students who live in the Keweenaw Bay and Keweenaw Peninsula region to learn about reading landscapes, local history and heritage, geology, GIS technology, and navigation. The internship will explore various sites around Keweenaw Bay - the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary lands and waters of the Anishinaabeg; the Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples and their more than human relatives.

July 11-15th & July 25-29th

The field experience will cultivate skills in geology content knowledge, geospatial technology, navigation, Anishinaabemowin (Anishinaabe language), listening and communication, and understanding the history, culture, and heritage of our place.

$1,000 stipend offered

This internship is facilitated as a partnership between the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community's Natural Resources Department and Tribal Historic Preservation Office, and Michigan Tech's Great Lakes Research Center and Geospatial Research Facility. Funding is provided by the National Science Foundation (Award Number: 2136139).

Photo credit: Zelina Huhta