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Summer Internship Program: Wythe County

Wythe

Primary Program Area Focus:  FCS

1. Describe your plans for this internship.  (i.e. What specifically will the intern be doing?)

This internship will primarily focus on community health/family and consumer science program area work.  The intern will have the unique opportunity to work with Southwest FCS agents across the district but will primarily work with the Area Specialized Agent-Community Engaged Health.  They will assist with planned programs in the area including the Diabetes Prevention Program, Balanced Living with Diabetes, canning workshops, ServSafe Food Protection Manager and Handler classes, canning workshops, parenting classes, financial literacy classes, and additioanl one-off cooking workshops.  The intern will be challenged to devleop, market, manage, and teach two FCS-related workshops.  The inern will assist with cooking classes at 4-H camp.  They wil also help with the preparation for the district wide Food Preservatoin Conference i August.

2. Describe the knowledge / skills you expect the intern to gain from this experience.

The intern will have the opportunity to learn how to motivate lifestyle change in participants by shadowing at least three different FCS agents educational programming throughout the Southwest District.  They will learn  how to develop, market, manage and teach at least two FCS programs in the Southwest District.  This will be based on the intern's knowledge and interest.

3. How will the intern learn about the breadth of VCE and our various program areas?

The intern will be housed in a Unit that has a robust 4-H and ANR program in addition to the FCS work they will be focused on.  This is a unique opportunity because they will also get to see several FCS agents and their focus areas so they will have a well-rounded experience.  The intern will have the opporunity to either assist the FCS agent with cooking class at 4H camp or lead that class, depending on their readiness.  They will get to see the set-up and behind the scenes work of putting on a district-wide food preservation conference that will be hosted in Wytheville in August.  All the FCS agents in the district, faculty from the food science department on Virginia Tech's campus, three ANR agents, and four 4-H agents will all be part of this event.

 

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