Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Internship Project - Collectors’ Corner Neighborhood Trading Post

(USA)

Project: Research and develop reference materials and teaching tools for volunteers staffing the Collectors’ Corner Neighborhood Trading Post, a pilot project of the Science Museum of Minnesota partnering with libraries.

Presentation: Volunteers work with young people coming to the program to trade items from nature for points, based on trader knowledge and type of object. Eric Harkleroad, CCNTP summer intern and U of Minnesota graduate student, is creating materials for volunteers focusing on the most commonly traded natural items. Materials developed include laminated question cards, riker boxes of labeled object samples, and topical e-mails and handouts which are being evaluated by the volunteer facilitators and the CCNTP team:

Interns: Maija Sedzielarz, Project Lead; Julie Marckel, Project Coordinator; and Eric Harkleroad, CCNTP intern.

Intern Project Time Span: June 2009 – August 2009; Project Time Span: June 2009 – December 2010

Contact: Maija Sedzielarz, Project Lead, Science Museum of Minnesota, 120 West Kellogg Blvd.

St. Paul, MN 55102 651-221-4554 msedzielarz@smm.org www.smm.org/tradingposts

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