Description
The National Park Service intends to award a single source justified cooperative agreement to Southern Utah University for the Intergovernmental Internship Cooperative (IIC) Youth Partnership Project at Great Basin National Park. The project aims to provide work and project-based educational internships and service learning programs to high school and college students, promoting professionalism in land stewardship and creating opportunities for youth to conserve or preserve cultural and natural resources. The internships will focus on interpretation and education, with tasks including social media posts, writing press releases, and planning and conducting educational programs. The project will run for 60 months, from September 1, 2018, to August 31, 2023.
• The project will provide internships for high school and college students to work on interpretation and education projects at Great Basin National Park.
• The internships will be administered by Southern Utah University, which has an established capacity to provide and administer a large number of interns to work in parks within the local area.
• The project will promote professionalism in land stewardship and create opportunities for youth to conserve or preserve cultural and natural resources.
• The National Park Service will provide guidance, leadership, and technical assistance to support the project.
• The project will run for 60 months, with an anticipated federal funding of $103,000.