Do you know a teen looking for summer work?
The South Lafourche Branch is seeking two summer teen interns to assist staff in implementing this year’s Summer Reading Program, A Universe of Stories, which begins May 28.
The library branch has received a $1,000 Summer Teen Intern Grant from the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association, and funded by the Dollar General Literacy Fund. The grant will allow the library to hire two summer teen interns and provide each intern with a $500 stipend for 50 hours of work during the summer.
The library is one of only 25 libraries across the country to receive this grant. This is the second consecutive year that the South Lafourche Branch is awarded the grant to hire teen interns for its summer program.
Our interns’ role will be to assist and lead not only STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) programs for children, other teens, and adults, but also to help lead coding programs for library visitors, in an expansion of the STEAM program that the library developed with our summer teen interns last year.
This will include the creation of a new coding club, in addition to other planned STEAM activities.
Not into coding?
Don’t worry. Our library staff will help interns learn everything they need to know to be successful in their internship this summer.
So who’s eligible to apply?
Teens ages 16 to 18 years old from the south Lafourche area are welcome to apply.
Interested teens can pick up an application at the library, 16241 E. Main Street, in Cut Off (near Burger King along La. 308).
The deadline to submit applications is May 10.
Teens can drop off their completed applications to any staff member at the South Lafourche Branch Library.
- Katina, Area Librarian