A-Schoolers Spread Their Wings

Every year during the month of January, the Scarsdale Alternative School stops all classes, and replaces them with internships. The students individually choose their internship based on interest. Here we look at five “A-schoolers” to hear about their current internships. Although their jobs are obviously not as cool as interning for Scarsdale10583, they are definitely worth hearing about!

Rebecca Groner is interning at Discovery Times Square. She is a docent at this museum’s Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit and helps out with the behind-the-scenes work. As a docent, she answers peoples’ questions about the exhibits and artifacts. To prepare for this, she had to study the Dead Sea Scrolls. Smaller tasks involve running to the post office, helping out in school workshops, and organizing supplies. Rebecca would definitely recommend this internship because she says the people with whom she works are really cool, and the crowds are interesting.

D.J. Holloway is working at an advertising agency called Refinery. This agency directs, produces, and edits commercials. He considers himself to be a personal assistant. This job entails finding music that best fits commercials, and finding specific online footage. D.J. spends about 80 percent of his time watching the graphic designers which he finds extremely fascinating. Although this is the agency’s first time having a high school intern, D.J. thinks they will use more high schoolers in the future because they seem to be impressed with his level of knowledge and skill.

Kate Howard is a teacher’s assistant for Mrs. Grossbach’s second grade class at Heathcote Elementry School. She mostly helps Mrs. Grossbach correct the students’ work, and prepare lessons. So far, Kate has prepared science experiments, spelling and math lessons. She directly reaches out to the students by assisting them with their homework, attending their specials, (music, art, gym, buddies, computer, library, etc.) and resolving any social issues that occur during recess. Kate happily explains that this internship is “an amazing opportunity…I never want it to end. I have made so many special friendships with all of my students and have gained the knowledge of what it is like to be a teacher!” She strongly recommends this internship to anyone who enjoys the company of little ones and teaching.

Anabelle Brecker is interning at the Clinton Global Initiative. The goal of this organization is to “inspire, connect, and empower a community of global leaders to forge solutions to the world's most pressing challenges.” As an intern, Anabelle gathers information about the organization’s sponsors, and makes spread sheets of all the different emails and contact information. She is also able attend meetings, and listen to phone interviews. She would recommend this internship because, “it’s really interesting to learn about the organization and the amazing things it does!”

Sam Kaplan is working as an assistant at the Morgan Library Museum in both the Sketch and Prints Department and the Department of Research Services. He compiles information about professors and curators in European and American museums, as well as college museums for the museum database. He also compiles bibliographic information on Old Master Drawings in the Morgan’s world-renowned collection. A personal plus for Sam is that he gets invited to private tours. Sam would definitely recommend this internship to art-lovers because they learn a lot as well as get to see exhibits before they open.

This post was contributed by Caroline Rodman who is a junior at the Scarsdale Alternative School. She plays tennis for the Varsity B girls team, serves as treasurer for the Scarsdale High School Charity:water Club, is the head of the prom committee for her graduating class, and is currently a student intern for Scarsdale10583.