PERSPECTIVES OF EARTH - TEAM MENTORSHIP
SUMMER 2023 - INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
PETM program design includes a Summer Internship during which youth engage in facilitated activities centered around open-ended, real-world problems. PETM interns participate in a work-based experience that includes the proposal of realistic solutions to environmental challenges that MetroWest cities and towns can implement. Youth apply systems-based thinking skills to real-world environmental problems, collaborate in small teams, meet with local subject matter experts, and use project management strategies to develop actionable plans.
This year, the work PETM Summer Interns perform is part of a partnership between the McAuliffe Center and the City of Framingham that supports Framingham’s efforts to address the risks extreme weather and climate-related hazards pose for the health of the whole community, especially its most vulnerable residents. Having earned designation through the State’s Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Program, the City of Framingham has identified extreme heat and higher temperatures as a top hazard. Through the MetroWest Climate Equity Project, the City of Framingham has been working with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council and a group of community liaisons to build stronger relationships with local Environmental Justice neighborhoods and identify opportunities to learn about and enhance these residents’ resilience to climate change impacts.
2023 Summer Interns
Acknowledgments
This project benefits from the generous support from the MA STEM Pipeline Fund / Massachusetts Executive Office of Education and from MassHire Metro South/West Workforce Board.
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Sudbury Foundation, and Main Street Group Foundation.
This program is also supported in part by grants from Framingham Cultural Council, Marlborough Cultural Council, and Milford Cultural Council, local agencies which are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
For more information about the program, you may email: Irene Porro.