Katie Tims – 2021 Maine Government Summer Intern Tims is a 2021 graduate of UMaine with a B.S. in Biology and a concentration in Pre-Medical Studies. As a participant in the Maine Government Summer Internship Program she was a summer intern with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection in the Bureau of Remediation and Waste […]
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Through the Maine Government Summer Internship Program, Karoline Bass has a summer internship with the Division of Technical Services for the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The division includes scientists, geologists, engineers, and data managers who focus on petroleum-contaminated sites. The Department is part of one of the four bureaus that compose the Maine […]
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Each year the Maine Government Summer Internship Program is pleased to place interns in a variety of state agencies and municipalities, some more well-known than others. This year Volunteer Maine hosted two of our interns, which in turn allowed us to learn more about what they do at Volunteer Maine. Anthony Inhorn, a Political Science […]
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The Emissions Inventory Section of the Bureau of Air Quality at Maine DEP has had an intern with the Maine Government Summer Internship Program this summer. Kaia Williams is a student at Dalhousie University, where she has a dual major in Environment, Sustainability and Society, and Spanish and Latin American Studies. Kaia’s primary responsibility has […]
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We hear from two of our fantastic summer interns serving in Maine municipal governments – Michael Levesque working with the Town of Vassalboro: My name is Michael Levesque and I will be starting my third year at the University of Maine Farmington this fall. I have been interning at the town of Vassalboro since June […]
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As summer government internships wrap up we are featuring some of our 2020 student interns. What an interesting summer for interns! Samantha Wood is an intern studying at the University of Maine at Farmington. She is from New Hampshire and stayed in Maine this summer to work with us here at the Bureau of Rehabilitation […]
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Arianna Castonguay a senior economics major at the University of Maine describes the skills that she learned while serving as an intern at the Maine Bureau of Consumer Protection. While there Arianna worked in the office taking phone calls from the public, working in the office, conducting field examinations, and co-authoring two booklets regarding financial […]
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Tyler Turcotte a senior civil engineering major at the University of Maine describes the invaluable experience of serving as an intern at the Maine Department of Transportation headquarters in Augusta, Maine. Tyler worked on the bridge program writing design reports, keeping logs of projects, and working with a junior engineer to check the final design […]
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My name is Claire Reid and I attend the University of Notre Dame as a Political Science and Economics double major. Over the summer, I worked as the Toxicology and Outreach Assistant for the Board of Pesticides Control. The BPC is housed under the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry and is tasked with regulating […]
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