Arthropod Zoo

**Indoors, pending onsite availability**
Visit the Arthropod Zoo website

This internship will assist keeping staff with daily care of a large, diverse collection of Arthropods. The intern will learn about arthropod lifecycles and maintenance of exhibits in a Museum setting. The intern may participate in public educational programming as appropriate. The intern may also be cross-trained in other areas of Living Collections.

Exhibit Hall Education

**Indoors, pending onsite availability**

Interns working in the Exhibit Hall areas of the museum will learn how to develop and deliver exciting natural science content to our museum visitors by creating cart programs, interpreting exhibits and delivering short science shows. Interns will research their topics, test out elements of their proposed topics, evaluate and make changes, and then produce a finished product before the end of the internship. Interns will work with other interns to share ideas and collaborate on presentations.

Educational Events

**Hybrid, pending onsite availability**
Visit the Events page

Interns will work alongside Events team to plan and implement educational activities for Adult Nights and other events like Museum Movie Nights, BugFest, Darwin Day, etc. Interns will use Museum resources (living collections, teaching collection, carts, Research and Collections staff) to develop educational exhibits for these programs. Interns will work with volunteers to deliver the programming during the events.

Hospitality & Museum Studies

**Hybrid, pending onsite availability**

The Guest Services Unit ensures a consistent, high-level, memorable guest experience, and provides superior customer service as well as safety and enjoyment for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences guests, members, and community. This unit provides a robust number of services built on a foundation of five key principles: Safety, Hospitality, Engagement, Service, and Inclusion. Guest Services is looking for an intern to start a concierge model to better meet the needs of the Guests at NCMNS. We have long said this would benefit the museum as a whole, however we have not been able to collect the data for this theory.

Living Conservatory

**Indoors, pending onsite availability**
Visit the Living Conservatory web page

Working with the public performing informal science education within the education lab. Completing a project to be used in the lab or on a public education cart explaining some aspect o science. The intern will also have experience working on education carts and interacting with the public

Investigate Labs

**Indoors, pending onsite availability**
Visit the Micro World and Natural World Investigate Lab pages

Working with the public performing informal science education within the education lab. Completing a project to be used in the lab or on a public education cart explaining some aspect o science. The intern will also have experience working on education carts and interacting with the public