Pennsylvania Sea Grant Summer 2025 Undergraduate Internship Opportunity
Programmatic Area: Environmental Literacy & Workforce Development
Location: staff supervisor is based in Philadelphia. Internship location is negotiable between Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and Erie, with hybrid opportunities.
Pennsylvania Sea Grant’s statewide reach includes three diverse coastal regions: the Lake Erie, Susquehanna River, and Delaware River watersheds. Environmental literacy and workforce development (ELWD) is an educational priority across these three distinct watersheds, and is fostered via educator professional development workshops, adult and youth education programs, print and online resources, opportunities for college and university students, and nonformal community education.
Pennsylvania Sea Grant seeks an environmental literacy and workforce development (ELWD) intern who is interested in Great Lakes, ocean, and climate literacy educator professional development program content and action-oriented stewardship projects.
Specifically, the intern may:
- Catalog and update existing Pennsylvania Sea Grant K-12 lesson plans and activity guides to ensure they address current Pennsylvania academic standards, that the content is accurate, and that they meet diversity equity inclusion and accessibility best practices.
- Refresh and update existing loanable education kits to ensure they address current Pennsylvania academic standards, that the content is accurate, and that they meet diversity equity inclusion and accessibility best practices. Additionally, to investigate partnership opportunities for implementation of statewide loan distribution protocols.
- Gather and organize resources on a Great Lakes Literacy relevant topic and assist in developing an online, self-paced educator professional development program.
- Assist with in-person and online educator professional development program planning and implementation, including Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEE) action project.
- Attend meetings with formal and nonformal educators and related partners.
- Additional opportunities as appropriate.
If hire is local to Erie:
- Assist with planning and delivery of in-person educator professional development programs, including Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEE) action project in northwest Pennsylvania.
These tasks will involve regular communication with Pennsylvania Sea Grant staff and Sea Grant Educators in the Great Lakes, mid-Atlantic, and national networks, and with relevant partners from state agencies, non-governmental organizations, schools, and more.
The internships are offered in Pennsylvania as part of the Community Engaged Internship (CEI) program, which is offered by Sea Grant programs across the country. Candidates should review the scope of the internship opportunity prior to applying.
Qualifications: The intern should have strong writing and communication skills, the ability to work independently and with others, and good organizational proficiencies. An interest in and experience with formal and nonformal educational settings is preferred but not required.
