2024 Spring & Summer Internships
Extreme Kids and Crew offers internships to students and non-students pursuing a career in educational studies, special education, child advocacy studies, communications, non-profit operations, and more. We encourage bilingual Spanish and Mandarin applicants.
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Interns must be 18 years old. High school students are welcome to volunteer 15-20 hours per month.
Timeline
Applications or a video (up to three minutes long) are due via email to cristina@extremekidsandcrew.org by March 15th for Spring applicants and June 14th for Summer applicants.
Interns will be interviewed until slots are filled.
Intern orientation will be at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Attendance is mandatory for interns and volunteers working with EKC youth. The Spring orientation is on March 30th and the Summer orientation is on June 22nd. The time is TBD.
The Spring internship dates are March 30th – June 7th.
The Summer internship dates are June 22nd – August 23rd.
DETAILS and Work Environment
Please note that all internships at Extreme Kids & Crew are unpaid. Extreme Kids & Crew can work with your educational institutions to provide academic credit or work study payment for your internship, if applicable.
Internships are hybrid. They will require standing or sitting for extended periods, two to four-hour work periods with breaks, and the ability to navigate through different accessible buildings.
Work will be performed in various public settings, including museums and community partner organizations within the NYC boroughs.
The noise level is moderate.
Occasionally, the schedule may include evenings and weekends.
Extreme Kids and Crew accepts no liability for any damage caused to personal equipment used for program purposes, nor for loss or corruption of electronic files on a device.
Interns must maintain confidentiality about children and families
Required Documents
Cover Letter or two-minute video and resume, identifying a specific internship
EKC will pay for the required background checks and fingerprints once an intern is accepted.
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The Content and Social Media Intern must love creating and consuming social content, understand best practices for social videos, and be comfortable working collaboratively and independently. This is a hybrid position.
The successful intern will possess the following characteristics:
• Comfort level working with diverse groups of families and children.
• Demonstrated experience creating short-form content.
• Knowledge and familiarity with navigating various social media platforms
• Knowledge of social media trends.
• Ability to shoot and edit videos for social media.
• Comfortable appearing in front of and behind the camera.
• Scrappy and intuitive mindset with a healthy dose of hustle. -
The Youth or Family Program Intern must have a strong interest in working with neurodivergent youth and families or a strong willingness to learn. Programs include In-person youth programs, monthly family programs, and quarterly support Powerful Parent onsite meetups. This is an in-person internship.
The successful intern will possess the following characteristics:
• Out of Box thinker/ creative and enjoys laughter.
• Comfortable with re-direction and creative youth-centered solutions.
• Experience working in an informal play-based learning environment.
• Experience working with diverse groups.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently, as well as within a team.
• Dependable and punctual.
• Ability and willingness to work a flexible schedule, including weekends. -
This internship collaborates with the various EKC departments to ensure data is collected and documented promptly and efficiently. They include but are not limited to evaluation activities, grant materials, and program statistics. This is a hybrid position.
The successful intern will possess the following characteristics:
• Strong organizational skills, detailed oriented
• Ability to work collaboratively using creative problem-solving.
• Flexible, patient, with a sense of humor
• Manage relationships with community partners and contractors to ensure programs run smoothly.
• Cultural competency to work with individuals from diverse backgrounds.
• Collaborate with families and community leaders to ensure that programming is responsive to the needs and wishes of those served.
• Communicate well verbally and in writing.
• Takes pride in a job well done.
What Our Interns Have to Say
“This internship allowed me to express my own opinions and ideas in different areas of concern. I gained knowledge of how to handle certain situations. For example, some kiddos have a hard time transitioning to a different activity, and I gained insight into handling those situations. I learned that we should allow children to express themselves in unique ways. This experience will help me when I encounter different children and youth in hospital settings and be able to use communicative language where they understand me and vice versa.” —Ashley
“One interaction with youth from the summer that I will remember is when, during an art activity, a participant became super excited about an activity and invited me to work on a drawing with them. They seemed to be having such a good time and were dancing around, eager to express themselves through art and dance, which was just such a sweet and fun moment to be a part of.” —Katya
“This internship has allowed me to gain insight and knowledge in working with children that have disabilities. The internship showed me how to interact with children with neurodiverse abilities and things that can be done to make them comfortable and feel safe.” —Mabel
“Participating in programs has shown me the effects of a safe and free environment and like-minded community on children and teens, particularly those with disabilities. It made me more inclined to take the initiative in creating a space like that. Since the internship, I have been wondering about what it would be like to be a teacher in some way.” —Molly
RACIAL EQUITY & INCLUSION
Extreme Kids & Crew believes that every child has the right to play and make art as it holds meaning to them, that every family has the right to accurate information and support, and that every employee has the right to a workplace that embraces a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Disability and race are entrenched ideas that have long been used as division and social oppression tools. We work to reverse some of the psychic tolls; this has been caused by making space for loving communities bound by the experience of disability. We work in communities with the world's most prominent African American and immigrant populations, and we recognize that the experience of disability is more complex and dangerous for our Black and Brown members. Through a combination of vision and action, we work to create more equity and understanding of intersectionality within our community and the general population.