Eco-Alianza de Loreto A.C.

Student Role

Interns will assist L.E.P. Irlanda Murillo Puente, Programs Coordinator, in facilitating environmental education for local students. One program will include the Summer Course (day camp) for local children, which provides high-quality, engaging science and environmental activities for students and empowers them to become citizen scientists! Interns will assist in expanding current programming and taking it to the next level. Interns will be responsible for taking initiative to plan creative and innovative lessons on STEM topics that interest them, as well as topics that our education department chooses. Spanish fluency in this role is key, as interns will be collaborating with our team and teaching to young children. To get familiar with Eco Alianzas Environmental Education initiatives, please reference our quarterly reports, specifically the environmental education sections: https://sites.google.com/ecoalianzaloreto.org/report-repository-eal. As background, here is an excerpt from our newsletter: This summer, Eco Alianza provided 40+ students with a space for active and creative learning, ranging from marine sciences, earth sciences, land, sea, and sky. Projects encouraged their curiosity, promoted innovative thinking, and provided them with opportunities to develop potential solutions to environmental concerns facing our community. They were able to consolidate their discoveries and ideas through the creation of their own educational materials, brochures, and video presentations that further expanded their learning. Interns should be proactive and self-starting. For example, an intern might be given a broad assignment to come up with a creative science lesson that will last 2 hours for local children (ex. to take place during one of our summer camps), and be able to execute on creating a plan, with the support of our team, but with minimal hand-holding. As another example, we have offered hundreds of different marine science lessons to students, but have not offered as many (environmental) engineering-focused programs to children, so an intern who would be able to take initiative in assembling a creative lesson that applies to conversation would be fantastic. Interns should be not only prepared to collaborate fully in Spanish with our team but contribute to teaching lessons in Spanish and caring for children who only speak Spanish. Experience engaging with children is recommended. Proactivity is essential. Whether its proactively seeing that someone on the team needs help setting up tables and jumping in to do so, or proactively identifying that we dont have any curriculum on a certain topic and offering to create that curriculum, we need interns that jump in and take action. Interns should be prepared and flexible to adapt to the needs of the organization, including the potential to assist Engineer and Co-Founder Hugo Quintero with the ongoing water project in Loreto. Last years interns were dedicated to this project. We will provide more information on the water project as we know what might be needed in terms of undergraduate level support.