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Teen Interns

The Cambridge Science Festival is looking for Teen Interns and a Student Director!

Application deadline: October 31, 2011

The Cambridge Science Festival takes curiosity to a whole new level… and we need talented, outgoing high school students to help make it all happen! We run a multifaceted, multicultural festival over nine days throughout Cambridge in the Spring that makes science, technology, engineering and math accessible, interactive and fun! The Cambridge Science Festival is made up of more than 200 events that are customized for audiences from preschoolers to Nobel Laureates. This year the Festival is expanding to include year-round programs in a variety of locations in Massachusetts as Science on the Street.

Up to 10 Teen Interns per semester will serve as the Festival’s Teen Advisory Board to help develop and implement Festival programming targeting middle and high school students. A major project for the Teen Advisory Board is the IDEAS Challenge, for which students aged 14 – 19 design solutions to contemporary problems.

Teen Interns are responsible for promoting the Science Festival and Science on the Street to middle and high school students and for helping to position the Festival as a much anticipated “cool” event. Teen Interns are called upon to act as Ambassadors at a variety of Festival events. Teen Interns also staff certain Festival events, including the Science Carnival, the Curiosity and IDEAS Challenge awards, and selected Science on the Street events. Teen Interns will also contribute to a blog about the Cambridge Science Festival and Science on the Street promoting these as exciting events for teens and families.

The Student Director of the Cambridge Science Festival will be responsible for guiding the development and implementation of Festival programming targeting middle and high school students and for helping to position the festival as a much anticipated “cool” event. A major project for the Student Director will be to help design and run the IDEAS Challenge for which students develop solutions to challenging contemporary problems. The Student Director will serve as Chair of the Teen Advisory Board. Responsibilities will include recruiting Teen Interns to serve as members, coordinating and facilitating meetings, and directing Teen Advisory Board Activities.

Be sure you fulfill all requirements!  Check out more detailed descriptions of Interns and Student Director below!


See more detailed Teen Internship Description
Download the Teen Internship Application here.

See more detailed Student Director Description
Download a Student Director Application here.
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