Internships2022

CSU’s Native American Cultural Center (NACC) in partnership with the Warner College of Natural Resources and CSU Extension is preparing a 70-acre field site and programming for community-based Indigenous science education to address a longstanding need for Indigenous education, serving CSU’s commitments as a land grant institution and needs identified by our local Native community. […]

a. Goals • A historical review of the contributions made by Arabic speaking immigrants to Colorado agriculture • Creation of a fact sheet with the results of the review • The intern will consider recent immigration as well b. Scope The interns will work with extension staff to increase the awareness of Arabic speaking immigrants’

The goal of the Rural Living Guidebook internship is to create a template for an informational guidebook that helps landowners answer questions related to land management. Several counties have Guides to Rural Living or similar documents, but a cohesive, CSU Extension-branded piece has not been created in several years, and the template design for the

Internship goals: – Gain experience in many facets of organic vegetable farming including irrigation management, cultivation, soil health, and harvest of a variety of crop types. – Learn how to organize and implement extension/outreach activities. – Understand how non-profit organizations work to reduce food insecurity. – Become educated in nutrition and nutrition education as it

The primary internship goal is for the student to contribute to a scientifically sound sampling and data collection process for the summer 2022 field season. This includes supporting the installation, sample collection and maintenance for edge-of-field water quality monitoring equipment. The student will have the opportunity to gain work experience conducting research in irrigated agriculture

Prior work: In Summer 2021, members of our team along with Extension Specialists (Ragan Adams and Dennis Kaan) developed and deployed a network of five low-cost ozone sensors (MOOS for Metal Oxide ozone Sensor; see figure to the left) in Fort Collins, CO and the Colorado Eastern Plains. The study was performed to evaluate MOOS

CSU’s Native American Cultural Center in partnership with the Warner College of Natural Resources and CSU Extension is preparing a 70-acre field site and programming for community-based Indigenous science education to address a longstanding need for Indigenous education, serving CSU’s commitments as a land grant institution and needs identified by our local Native community. Project

The internship is to enhance the hands-on activities in the 4-H Extension Career Pathways trailer. The goals include: -Focus all activities to be inclusive -Transform existing materials to be 90% self-guided hands-on activities -Streamline the 10% of guided activities for ease of use -Add some new hands-on activities -Ensure all experiments can be done physically

The goal is to explore community stories and relationships to place in a predominately non-white/immigrant neighborhood(s) in Southwest Denver in connection with the neighborhood’s broader human-environmental geographies. The intern will use community-engaged, qualitative methods (e.g., interview, photography, or videography) to collect stories from residents and community organizations, potentially including: neighborhood history, what the neighborhood means

The Youth & Families with Promise 4-H Mentoring Program is a grant based mentoring program. The program offers 60 at-risk youth the chance to engage in leadership, team building, problem solving, hands-on 4-H project-based learning activities weekly while providing a mentor for the youth to form a strong bond which is the basis for the