Internships
Read more below about our internship opportunities for high school students.
Zero Waste Internships for High School Students 2024-2025 School Year
During the 2024-25 school year, we will be offering paid internships with our Zero Waste Schools & Green Events programs for high school students. Students who participate in this internship will be trained in zero waste principals and waste reduction strategies. You will then help events, schools and/or businesses to divert waste from the landfill through education, reuse, recycling, and composting.
Internship dates & details: August, 2024- June, 2025
Students will work a minimum of 40 hours over the course of the internship and will earn a $500 stipend upon completion. Applications will be accepted until 10pm on August 1st. After a mandatory virtual training session in August, interns will be able to set a flexible schedule for completing their internship over a four to nine month period before June 12th, 2025.
This will be a hybrid internship involving virtual trainings and check-ins with our staff, as well as in-person work at community events and other sites. Students will also have the option spend some of the internship hours working independently on a zero waste project of their choice, with assistance from our staff. Details on this will be shared at our training session in August, but past student projects have included school cafeteria waste audits, outreach to restaurants about reducing plastic waste, film projects or social media campaigns on zero waste topics, recycling education, activities and presentations for younger students, and implementing recycling or composting programs.
While there is some flexibility to customize your internship, here is a rough breakdown of how internship hours will be spent:
- 10 hours on zero waste education
(includes online and in person experiences) - 30 hours assisting with zero waste stations at community events
(mostly Saturdays at 3-5 community events-dates TBA) - *an optional additional 20-40 hours on a final zero project of your choice with staff aproval
(mostly flexible hours completed online and in-person)
Many community events we work with reach out a few months before the event date; however, there are a few we know of in advance. Interns will have to assist with at least 3 of these events.
– KSM Hoʻolauleʻa (March 1st)
– Hoʻomau (March 22nd)
– Menehune Mayhem (May 3rd & 4th)
– Seabury Craft Fair (May 10th)
– Maui Ag Fest (May 31st)
For questions, email macie(at)mauihuliaufoundation.org.
