WEATHERWORKS Educational Services

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES

High school and college student internships

"Help Wanted"

Special public service presentations

We have begun to offer motivated high school and college students a chance to earn valuable weather-based experiences through a non-paid, service-based internship program

Groundhog Forecast Evaluation Project - Julie Saul, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School (1996-97). Julie co-presented a paper at the American Meteorological Society's Weather Broadcaster Conference in Utah in mid-June 1997.

Help Wanted - High School and College Students

If you are interested in becoming an intern for HOW THE WEATHERWORKS, consider your areas of interest and our needs listed below. Although we do not pay for these positions, we will work with you and your guidance counselor/advisor to ensure that the experience is a meaningful one for you and satisfies community service requirements. You will also learn about meteorology, web site development, writing, making formal presentations, data collection and analysis, and/or other aspects of scientific and technical work.

Web Page Developer - Are your interested in further developing your skills as a creator and maintainer of web pages? If so, we'd like to create a Sky Awareness Week base map, develop "forms" for reporting and transmitting daily weather observations, and creating short video segments for our web pages.
Researcher - We are interested in examining relationships between various weather parameters and certain types of events. For example, our 1996-97 intern examined Punxsutawney Phil's "furcasts" to see how accurate he has been. Next, we'd like to compare dates of hurricane landfall to lunar phases. We have several other "hot" topics that could also serve as innovative science fair projects.
Illustrator - Can you draw? We are always looking for weather-based artwork that we can use on our web pages, in our books, and in our training programs.
Videographer / video editor - How The Weatherworks has several projects underway which involve various aspects of videography. If you are looking for an opportunity to credentialize yourself by filming, editing, and co-producing educational videotapes, this opportunity id for you.
CD-ROM creator - We are planning to create several data and instructional CD-ROMs. This position requires organizational and computer skills.

Public / Community Service

Presentations to local Scout Groups - H. Michael Mogil made one hour weather presentations to several Montgomery County (MD) girl scout troops (Fall 1996 - Spring 1998) and a cub scout den (February 1997).
Participation at Rockville Science Day - Each April, the Rockville Consortium for Science (of which H. Michael Mogil is a charter member) provides a science day for the local community. Several thousand people of all ages attend the program at Montgomery College's Rockville campus. There are about 50 to 60 exhibits, displays, and hands-on programs covering all areas of science. HOW THE WEATHERWORKS has participated almost every year since Rockville Science Day began.
Involvement in the District of Columbia's Earth Day Celebration - HOW THE WEATHERWORKS has participated in this educational outreach effort for several years. In addition, numerous federal and city agencies, and many other private companies, offer science activities and demonstrations to students from many DC elementary and middle school classes.
Participation at John Eaton Elementary School's Science "Kick-Off" - HOW THE WEATHERWORKS has participated in the fall science day program at this northwest District of Columbia school for several years. Hands-on activities have included "playing around with the water cycle," "clouding the issue," and working with the school's automated weather station.
Assistance in Science Day at Sandy Spring Friends School - H. Michael Mogil served as a science mentor for two sixth grade students at this school in Montgomery County, MD in 1997. The students' project involved "understanding why the central plains of the United States have so many tornadoes." He also served as a reviewer for the event in 1999.
Presentations to Sandy Spring Friends House - H. Michael Mogil has presented weather programs to this senior citizen facility several times in recent years.

For more information about internships, please contact HOW THE WEATHERWORKS

last updated January 18, 2008