{"id":280,"date":"2013-04-08T13:37:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T17:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/?p=280"},"modified":"2013-04-08T13:37:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T17:37:31","slug":"internships-internships-at-local-motion-summer-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/2013\/04\/08\/internships-internships-at-local-motion-summer-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERNSHIPS: Internships at Local Motion, Summer 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1>Internships at Local Motion, Summer 2013<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Local Motion has six internships available to students this summer. \u00a0The positions all include extensive project management and development components. \u00a0They range from advocacy and education, to working with youth, to working on our recycled products initiative, Bike Recycle Designs. \u00a0The positions are:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">VT Bike Challenge &amp; Local Motion Outreach Intern<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Complete Streets Project Intern<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Bike Recycle Vermont Summer Program Coordinator Intern<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Bike Recycle\u00a0Designs Intern<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">&#8220;Bike for Life&#8221; Intern<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Bike Ferry Intern<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Attached are full descriptions and application information. \u00a0Below are summaries. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Local Motion provides a structured, supported internship experience. \u00a0Interns are fully integrated into the Local Motion staff, have regular meetings with their supervisor, and attend staff meetings and employee gatherings. It&#8217;s a fun place to spend your summer!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h3>Internship Descriptions:<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #3333ff;font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">VT Bike Challenge &amp; Local Motion Outreach Intern<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">OUTREACH:\u00a0 This position is a boots-on-the ground position.\u00a0 Local Motion has a huge variety of events, projects, and outreach throughout the region, and we are looking for an outgoing, engaging and passionate advocate for people-powered recreation and transportation to attend them.\u00a0This is a great opportunity for people interested in developing experience in grass-roots outreach and public engagement.\u00a0\u00a0 To learn more about our programs, check out:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.localmotion.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.localmotion.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">VERMONT BIKE CHALLENGE: \u00a0Work closely with Local Motion staff to promote the Vermont Bike Challenge (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vermontbikechallenge.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">vermontbikechallenge.org<\/a>\u00a0), a statewide event that runs from May 1 to August 31!\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0Intern&#8217;s primary role will be to market the Challenge to individuals, businesses, community groups, partner organizations, and others around the state. \u00a0The VT Bike challenge represents a fantastic opportunity to develop social marketing skills and promote bicycling all over Vermont.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #3333ff;font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Complete Streets Project Intern<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Help transform Vermont communities for walking and biking!\u00a0 Support Local Motion&#8217;s Complete Streets initiative with research on best practices for improving local infrastructure, policies, and plans to support walking and biking. \u00a0Review the municipal plans, policies, and ordinances of local towns and compare them to best practices and assist with identifying priority recommended changes for each town. \u00a0This is a fantastic internship for someone who wants to learn the nuts and bolts of what it takes to make places better for walking and biking at the policy level!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #3333ff;font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Bike Recycle Vermont Summer Program Coordinator Intern<\/span><\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #222222\">The Summer Programs Coordinator will work closely with the BRV staff in the dynamic, exciting BRV shop setting to implement programs that serve bike customers and volunteers. You&#8217;ll\u00a0participate\u00a0in Bike Recycle Vermont open hours (Tuesday through Friday, 1-5pm), d<\/span>istributing refurbished bikes to bike customers, helping\u00a0with intake of bikes to be repaired, working\u00a0at the front desk greeting customers, and working\u00a0Bike Recycle volunteers to repair bicycles and perform other shop tasks. \u00a0You&#8217;ll also work with youth, leading &#8220;Bike Club&#8221; rides and helping to teach &#8220;Earn-a-Bike&#8221; classes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #3333ff;font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Bike Recycle\u00a0Designs Intern<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Contribute design ideas, organizational skills and customer service to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.localmotion.org\/bikerecycledesigns\/photos\" target=\"_blank\">Bike Recycle Designs<\/a>\u00a0(BRD), an income-producing jewelry and craft initiative with the goal of providing funding for Bike Recycle Vermont. \u00a0There is room to make this position suit your interests and skills. Options include product development and design, teaching and coaching other artists and crafters, focusing on sales and inventory, and supporting production of existing products.\u00a0\u00a0Tasks range from assisting other volunteer artists and crafters with their pieces; ensuring that there is a healthy stock of our popular products that we sell regularly; developing and experimenting with new designs and new products for the line; recruiting and managing volunteers who want to help create products; to helping to evolve the \u201cbrand\u201d and \u201clook\u201d for Bike Recycle Designs. \u00a0This internship will give you real-world\u00a0<\/span>entrepreneurial\u00a0experience.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #3333ff\">&#8220;Bike for Life&#8221; Intern<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/b>Get in on the launch of a major new Local Motion initiative! \u00a0Collaborate with staff on the development and launch of the &#8220;Bike for Life&#8221; project, which will work with low-income families at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sa.bsdvt.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sustainability Academy<\/a>\u00a0in Burlington\u2019s Old North End to get kids biking and provide their parents with the support they need to make their kids bicyclists for life. \u00a0The\u00a0intern\u00a0will assist with learn-to-bike clinics and then play a key role in following up with parents and kids.\u00a0 The Active for Life intern will also help out with some\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kohlskidsbikesmart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bike Smart events<\/a>, to learn more about the educational structure of bike skills trainings, and help with assessment and tracking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #3333ff;font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Bike Ferry Intern<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/b>The Local Motion Bike ferry transports walkers, runners and bikers across a 200\u2019 cut in the Colchester\/South Hero causeway at the mouth of Mallett\u2019s Bay in Lake Champlain. It\u2019s a world class trail, and Local Motion has worked for 10 years to realize daily ferry service across this break in the route.\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019ve run Demonstration Service on August weekends for many years; and this year, after successfully completing a $1.5 million fundraising campaign, with a new boat and improved infrastructure, we\u2019re finally able to launch daily service.\u00a0\u00a0You\u2019ll work closely with Bike Ferry Manager, Assistant Manager, and Local Motion Executive Director to manage, market, and run Bike Ferry operations for this exciting first year of daily service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internships at Local Motion, Summer 2013 Local Motion has six internships available to students this summer. \u00a0The positions all include extensive project management and development components. \u00a0They range from advocacy and education, to working with youth, to working on our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/2013\/04\/08\/internships-internships-at-local-motion-summer-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46458,46475],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internships","category-vermontnew-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}