Last month we announced a new GCAS pilot project to engage local high school students in a summer internship program headquartered at the Mimbres Culture Heritage Site (MCHS). The GCAS finances the program by providing each student a $250 cash stipend out of our GCAS education fund. Marilyn Markel directs the program and trains the interns who will gain skills not just in archaeology, but in education, public outreach, and more. Marilyn reports,
Gloria White and Jason Palomarez applied and were chosen as the 2023 GCAS summer interns at MCHS. Both Gloria and Jason live in the Mimbres area and attended San Lorenzo Elementary. Gloria will be an eighth grader at Snell Middle School and Jason a ninth grader at Cobre High School.
Gloria and Jason will help MCHS educators give presentations on archaeology, natural resource identification and use, and Mimbres Indian culture and pottery and provide hands-on archaeology and preservation activities to area summer camp kids. The Interns will also help lead interpretive tours for the public at the Mattocks archaeological Site with other MCHS volunteer tasks and activities.
Congratulations, Gloria and Jason! GCAS members, drop by the MCHS some time to meet the GCAS’s first two interns!