Engaging High School Students in Minnesota History through Internships

Increase diversity, increase progressive engagement and increase job skills and knowledge about public history.
1. Continue to place diverse students, reach 85% diversity rate. Close to meeting the goal. While 89% of all our high school interns were from all teen programs were from diverse communities, for the Legacy program only, we had a 83% diversity rate. Five out of six students were from diverse communities.

2. 30% of students go to another MHS teen program or come from another MHS teen program i.e. TAC, SHIP, History Day, Mentor, ACTC, College Intern, Fellows or continue to volunteer with us. Met this goal. 30% of the six students from the Legacy intern program were progressively engaged. Students continued to volunteer and another came from the American Indian Portrait project.

3. 90% feel that this program has increased their job skills or knowledge of public history. 100% of the students would recommend this program to their peers. Those engaged in the program had this to say about what they learned: "This program increased my knowledge of public history by bringing cool history things back to my class. It helped me be more social. I learned history in a more personal way. I learned how to work with kids. It improved my communication skills; I learned how to talk to people. I learned how to work a copier machine, stapler and scanner. It inspired me to go to college, and encouraged me to pursue my dreams even more. "