Welcome to the Internship Blog!

Welcome to the Young Ambassadors 2022 Internship Blog!


If you have any questions about the blog, feel free to email me at: RamirezD2@si.edu 


Journal Blog:

Your internship will be a 4-week experience with your assigned institution or cultural organization.

As part of your 4-week internship, you will be responsible for sending the National Museum of the American Latino weekly updates of your internship experience. These updates should address the following questions:
  • What have your assignments been this week? 
  • How have these experiences increased your knowledge of the inner workings of museums and/or cultural organizations? 
  • How does your internship experience increase your knowledge of various disciplines, programming, and/or education? 
  • How do your internship experiences connect with the mission of the Young Ambassadors Program and the Washington Week experience? 
  • Any other observations you may want to include
In your blog post, please be sure to include a personal reflection of your community outreach activity that addresses your experience in facilitating this enrichment program.


Photo Assignment:

As part of documenting your experience, we would like you to submit photographs of your internship assignment and community outreach activity throughout the 4-weeks. Include some of these photographs in your weekly blog posts. These photographs may be compiled and used to create an informational video on the Young Ambassadors Program. Please make sure you do not photograph children or specific individuals without their permission and the signature of the enclosed photography release form. Please also make sure you make your internship supervisors aware of this assignment in case of any conflicts.

Acceptable pictures include pictures of you performing your weekly assignments, pictures of community outreach, and pictures of you in your daily setting and/or routine. For examples of past YAP internship photos taken, visit our Flickr.

Please email your pictures to Dayanna Ramirez at RamirezD2@si.edu 


Due Date and Process:

Weekly updates should be posted via the Google blog spot every Tuesday by midnight. We want to use the blog spot as a way to spark conversation and dialogue regarding the various internship experiences. Each Young Ambassador is responsible for posting their blog to the blog spot at the start of each week, reflecting on the past week. The Young Ambassadors Program staff will moderate the blog spot. The NMAL will host discussions each week based on participant comments. We encourage you to use the blog spot to post pictures and other appropriate communications related to your internship or community outreach experience. The blog spot is a tool that you can use to communicate and share your experiences with your fellow Young Ambassadors. We hope that this provides an avenue for Young Ambassadors to have an ongoing conversation, or charla.

Please keep in mind that the blog posts you write will be shared with internship partners, program sponsors, and the audience of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Latino social media accounts.

Con cariño,
Dayanna

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