Teen Internships
Juniper Hill Ranch interns and counselors celebrate the end of their weeklong internship
Boulder Service-Learning Internship for Middle School-Aged Girls
Date: July 15-19, 2024
Cost: $380
Hours: 9 a.m. -1 p.m.
Days: Monday through Friday
An Internship Created for Middle Schoolers
Join Juniper Hill Ranch’s specially curated teen internship this summer. This fun weeklong program enables middle school-aged girls (rising 6th through rising 9th graders) the opportunity to make friendships, immerse themselves in animal life on the ranch and give back to those in need in the Boulder community. We are excited to be partnering with Emergency Family Assistance Association (EFAA), a non-profit in Boulder that helps ensure those in our community have access to food, housing and other resources to move toward financial stability and resilience.
Each day, interns will spend time taking care of Juniper Hill’s animals, as well as creating natural products that we’ll donate to the Emergency Family Assistance Association. Our activities and programming are specifically designed to build confidence and compassionate leadership in girls at an age when studies show confidence among girls plummets.
We’ll start our mornings with an activity to build community before we head out to Juniper Hill’s ranch animals like mini-donkeys, sheep, chickens and ducks. Interns will learn how to feed them, give them water, collect and clean eggs, brush them and clean their stalls.
Afterwards, we’ll head into the white barn where interns will learn how to make products like all-natural soaps, deodorants, hand salves and more. As we’re crafting them together, we’ll learn sanitation best practices and why ingredients like beeswax are great for beauty products and the environment. We’ll also create labels for each product and then set them aside to be donated to EFAA at the end of the week. We’ll eat lunch together before ending for the day.
During the week, we’ll have a guest speaker from EFAA visit to share what the organization does, how EFAA impacts the community, how people of many ages can get involved and how our work making natural products fills a need. At the end of the week, interns will leave having made new friends and experienced what it feels like to make a difference in the community. They will also have gained experience taking care of ranch animals and will know how to make their own beauty products. We can’t wait for this internship week this summer!