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Students describe hands-on summer work in Gaithersburg RISE internship program
Summary
City RISE interns described field and communications work they completed this summer with environmental services and the Kentlands Mansion. City staff highlighted the program as a pipeline for public service careers and credited interns for research contributions used by departments.
At Tuesday's council meeting, Hazel Monet, the city's Ready program manager, introduced participants in the RISE summer internship program and summarized the city's role in hosting students in collaboration with Montgomery County Public Schools and local partners.
"This is the 3rd year the city has hosted RISE interns," Monet said, describing the program as "reimagining an innovative student experience" that gives rising MCPS juniors and seniors career-based learning opportunities. Intern Charlotte McTominay, a rising junior at Clarksburg High School, described field work she did with environmental services, including measuring trees with DBH tape and a Biltmore stick and retrieving water-monitoring sensors from difficult locations. "The most important thing I learned this summer is that there's always more for me to learn," she told council.
Scarlet Ashford, a rising 11th grader who interned at the Kentlands Mansion, said she filmed and edited videos for social media and researched the mansion's history for content. "This experience helped me introduce me to the work environment and helped me get used to what it would be like," she said. Hazel Monet emphasized leadership development and career-readiness components including resume work and professional orientation sessions. Mayor Ashman and councilmembers applauded the interns and noted some intern research and projects have been incorporated into ongoing staff work.
