{"id":1317711,"date":"2020-01-15T23:32:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T06:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/getting-paid-to-learn-about-the-great-outdoors\/"},"modified":"2020-01-15T23:32:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T06:32:01","slug":"getting-paid-to-learn-about-the-great-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/getting-paid-to-learn-about-the-great-outdoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting paid to learn about the great outdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grand Valley High School students participating in the Outdoor Careers Internship during the kick-off camping trip at Rifle Falls State Park, fall semester 2019.<\/strong>
Ben Sherman\/Provided<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

From organic farming to trail building, the Outdoor Careers Internship will give local high school students the opportunity to get their hands dirty this spring.<\/p>\n

Provided by Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers with funding from Great Outdoors Colorado and Garfield County Outdoors, the internship \u2014 now in its second year \u2014 will run for 10 weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have structured this very intentionally where we are offering the internship on the day when students are not in session,\u201d Ben Sherman, Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers education director, said.<\/p>\n

Between Feb. 21 and May 8, interns will spend their Fridays working with, and learning alongside members of the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, Fat City Farmers and Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers.<\/p>\n

For over 50 years, the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies has provided environmental education to the region. Additionally, since 2006, Fat City Farmers has taught food education in the Roaring Fork Valley by fostering gardens and greenhouses at area schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith just three organizations we thought we were covering a great breadth of interest that a lot our students have had in the past,\u201d Sherman said.<\/p>\n

The third organization \u2014 Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers \u2014 like the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies and Fat City Farmers also promotes stewardship of public lands through trail and other restoration projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudents really get a taste of what some of these outdoor focused careers might be like,\u201d Sherman said.<\/p>\n

Each semester, the Outdoor Careers Internship accepts students from different area schools.<\/p>\n

Only Coal Ridge and Rifle High School students between the ages of 15 and 19 may apply for this spring\u2019s Outdoor Careers Internship.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do have many more applications than we have spots,\u201d Sherman said. \u201cThe reason that we have kept it so small is we really want to have a focus on all of those students that are accepted.\u201d<\/p>\n

For application details, email Ben Sherman at bsherman@rfov.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Outdoor Careers Internship pays $11.10 an hour and interested students have until Jan. 22 to complete their application for consideration.<\/p>\n

mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Grand Valley High School students participating in the Outdoor Careers Internship during the kick-off camping trip at Rifle Falls State Park, fall semester 2019.Ben Sherman\/Provided From organic farming to trail building, the Outdoor Careers Internship will give local high school students the opportunity to get their hands dirty this spring. Provided by Roaring Fork Outdoor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 05:12:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}