Senior Service Internships

All seniors started their spring semester internships – which are a component of CCSC’s graduation requirements – in early February. Instead of coming to school on Thursdays, each senior reports to his or her internship site. Seniors spend at least 100 hours during the spring semester at their placement sites. The first phase of the internship program focuses on getting to know the host organization/business and mentor. Students are exposed to a wide range of tasks as they become more comfortable and adjust to the everyday rigors of the work day. Starting in early March, the second phase begins, which requires that interns begin focusing on a specific project that will consume the majority of their time. At CCSC, students are completing bi-monthly journals, submitted to their advisors, responding to prompts that allow them to reflect on their experiences and share them. These projects, which must benefit the host organization/business in some way, are shown at our annual Internship Exhibition Night. This year, students, faculty, staff, mentors, and community members will join us at CCSC on the evening of June 2nd. Seniors will present on their experiences and their projects, thank their mentors publically and formally, and all will enjoy a meal together as the internship component wraps up for the year.

 
This year, CCSC has again partnered with the following community organizations and businesses: The Civic Education Project at Northeastern University, Massachusetts General Hospital’s Department of Surgery and the Trauma/Critical Care Unit, Food for Free, Community Development Corporation of Boston, Cambridge-Ellis School, East End House, and WERS. In addition, CCSC is partnering with the following organizations and businesses for the first time in 2010: Google, midwives at the Codman Square Health Clinic, Davis Square Dental, Partners in Health, Federated Dorchester Neighborhood Houses, Mattapan Community Health Center, Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House, the Harvard Square Business Association, Cambridge Landscape Company, the Department of Transportation’s Volpe Center, and the Men of Color Health Initiative at the CHA Windsor Street Health Center.