Rural Studies - Internships

1st Internship - Brooks County Development Authority in Brooks County, Georgia
The job included learning industrial-type grant writing, putting together grant drawdowns (money requests and proof of spending), updating the website, and basic office duties. This internship allowed the student to see not only how industrial grant writing works but also how they are administered and how money travels through the community.
Cassie was also allowed to handle funds for the Airport Authority. At the time, they were expanding and updating their runway. She toured the project with Mayor Curtis Pickels and the Airport Authority chairman.

2nd Internship (Spring 2011)-  Office of SponsoredPrograms at ABAC in Tifton, Georgia
Cassie’s  duties included putting together the policy manual for the Office, creating a database of statistics for use in foundational/research grant writing, and assist with any random work for current grants. During this internship, she was allowed to give a presentation on three grants and met many influential "movers and shakers" on ABAC's campus.

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Internship - Downtown Tifton Farmers’ Market in Tifton, GA

This position involved creating and maintaining a blog of helpful information about the market, on-site hosting and occasional management of the market, andhelping with publicity of the market. Entries on the Market Morsels blog (hosted by Word Press) contain information on growing locally popular products (tomatoes, peaches), home canning methods, and vendor profiles, in addition to general information about the market and planting and harvesting schedules for South Georgia.

Learning about how even rural populations have a hard time gaining access to locally produced fresh food was an eye-opening experience. Witnessing the community building that takes place and the people of diverse backgrounds finding common ground when talking about growing and preparing their own food (or bonding over crafts, or sewing) was the best aspect being on-site with the market. Going to a farmer’s home and listening to the love they have of growing and caring for the crops they produce, and the curiosity they have for trying new methods that might allow them to grow chemical-free crops was also a wonderful experience.  

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Internship - Environmental Management at Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins, Georgia

Tanner’s internship was under Dr. Bob Sargent of Environmental Management at Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins, Georgia.  During the internship, he performed various duties that related to rural studies. Several of these activities included property surveys, plant and animal control and management, building surveys and floor plan mapping and working with the base archeologist in an onsite historical site. Each of these activities provided a different aspect as a business major and allowed for an enhanced learning aspect outside of the classroom.  It also helped to provide in-the-field learning experiences that, without an internship, would otherwise be unattainable.Hide this content.

Internship - Rural Doctor’s Office in Fitzgerald, GA

For her internship, Allison Tucker worked at Dr. James E. Luckie, Jr.'s office in Fitzgerald, GA.  She served as his office manager last summer. During my internship, Tucker was also in charge of running the business side of the practice. Taking note of her interest in medicine, Dr. Luckie allowed Allison to assist with in office procedures and let her observe patient visits.

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Internship - Ashburn-Turner County Arts Council and Downtown Stimulus Committee.

During her intership, she concentrating on three goals.
She organized Ashburn's first two monthly downtown events including:established a new farmers market,organized special events with downtown merchants, created and distributed flyers and event documents to merchants, and created digital databases and templates for future events. The first one was "Fourth Friday" in June and, after realizing the economic benefits of having the event the first of the month, Westberry planned the second one for the first Friday of August, entitled "Friday Night Live."
In addition, she organized and created a database of local artists and those who had previously submitted work to Ashburn's Fireant Festival Art Show, scheduled art exhibits for the local library's 2010-2011 year, and created documents including liability release forms, artists letters, biographical sketch forms, an inventory of exhibited art form, and I created digital database and templates for future events.

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Internship - Georgia Museum of Agriculture in Tifton, GA

Jonathan Cassiday volunteered with the GA museum of Agriculture for the past 3 years and knew that he wanted to do his internship with the museum. His responsibilities include inventorying collections, cleaning items and preserving items, recording descriptions of items and assigning unique IDs for inventoriing purpose. Being the Intern Registrar means that Cassiday is the first person to record the item and incorporate it into the inventory of preserved items in at the museum. This Rural Studies student loves working with the people of the museum,as many who work there have the same passion for history and preservation that he does. Jonathan is also called to help out in setting up displays, interpreting displays and helping with general routine maintance of the facility.

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Internship- Georgia Backroads Magazine Rome, GA

During the summer of her junior year, Bailey Jacobs did an online internship with Georgia Backroads Magazine out of Rome, GA. Her duties included editing current pieces of writing. She was also given the opportunity to work on her own article for the magazine. On a typical day, the owner of the magazine sent Bailey potential articles, which authors wanted to be published in the magazine. He would then instruct her on what needed to be done or looked over in the article. From here, Bailey edited and revised and then sent the articles back to the owner. During her internship with Georgia Backroads Magazine, Bailey and her supervisor were able to collaborate on articles and revisions.

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Internship- Hilton Garden Inn Tifton, GA

With a goal to enter the hotel and tourism industry, Carl Langford chose to do his internship with the Hilton Garden Inn. Carl’s everyday tasks while at the hotel varied, ranging from shadowing supervisors in maintenance to helping with local produce purchases. The managers at the hotel wanted to show Carl the entire spectrum of possible duties, so he shadowed all department mangers. In addition, Carl also worked the hotel’s front desk, directly helping customers and clients. Through his experience with the Sales and Marketing

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