AmeriCorps positions with the Massachusetts Land Initiative for Tomorrow (MassLIFT) :: Posted On Thursday, August 12, 2010
Seeking educators with a passion for conservation education, service learning, and civic engagement
The Massachusetts Land Initiative for Tomorrow (MassLIFT) is a new AmeriCorps program developed by a collaboration of seven regional land trusts to meet community needs for land protection, including the initiation of new conservation projects, stewardship of protected lands, outreach to the broader community, and service learning opportunities to engage young people in conservation. MassLIFT has openings for 20 AmeriCorps positions. The service period runs from October 6, 2010 through August 31, 2011. AmeriCorps members will serve in one of a dozen land trusts and partner organizations across the state, and in one of four positions: land steward (7 positions), regional conservationist (4 positions), service learning coordinator (5 positions), or outreach coordinator (4 positions). These are full-time positions that come with stipends, health insurance, education awards, valuable career/conservation leadership training and networking, and the satisfaction of having strengthened community efforts to protect open space for farms, working forests, trails, wetlands, parks, community gardens, and other lands of conservation and local importance.
Interviews will begin August 9 and positions will be filled on a rolling basis until September 17. Apply now!
Application specifics and further information about these AmeriCorps positions can be found on the Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust website:
http://www.mountgrace.org/americorps-massLIFT.html
or contact MassLIFT Program Manager, Dee Robbins at 978-833-4192 or
robbins@mountgrace.org
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Summer Transportation Institute for HS students :: Posted On Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Summer Transportation Institute for HS students
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The Summer Transportation Institute (STI) at UMass Amherst is sponsored by the Federal Highway Department and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation & Public Works, and is designed to expose rising 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th graders to the field of transportation.
We are actively recruiting students for this summer and hope that it may be of some interest to your current students.
The program is Federally funded so there is no cost to the students if they are accepted.
To give you some idea of what STI is the program runs Monday to Friday from 9:30am to 4:30pm from Tuesday July 6th to Friday July 30.
We use one of the interactive classrooms in the college of engineering, so every student gets a new computer with a flat screen and high speed internet.
UMass faculty, staff and graduate students provide lectures and lead discussions throughout the program on all modes of transportation, sustainability in transportation and careers in transportation.
Students also participate in preparing project presentations in teams, and all sorts of hands on activities.
We take about a half dozen field trips, including things like a cruise of Boston Harbor and a visit to the State House to see the Governor speak.
We also include some purely recreational activities such as hiking and kayaking on the CT River.
Interested participants or those wishing to apply should visit the program website at
www.cee.umass.edu/sti
or feel free to contact Dr. Michael Knodler or Katrina Hecimovic in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at
UMass-Amherst via email at
mknodler@ecs.umass.edu
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