KinnickInternship Program

Our summer high school internship program engages high school youth in environmental stewardship. Focusing on supporting healthy bodies, minds, lands and waters, the program provides opportunities for hands-on environmental work and learning. This includes:

• Working outdoors conducting land stewardship (removing invasives, planting natives)
• Learning about the connection between the environment and our health, green careers, financial literacy, mindfulness and environmental justice
• Participating in trash cleanups, physical activity, and art activities
• Collecting scientific data
• Building relationships with other teens in the program

We focus most of our work on and around the Kinnickinnic River but take field trips to locations that showcase environmental work in the city of Milwaukee, including spending a week at a water quality lab at the School of Freshwater Sciences and kayaking the KK River. Interns spend 15 hours/week in the program and are paid $12/hour. Email kmbrands@sschc.org to find out more!