Summer Apprenticeship Opportunities

Summer Internship Opportunities – COE-LWRM

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Our new summer apprenticeship opportunity is the RANGE Summer Research Experience - a four-week residential program for motivated high school students interested in agriculture, environmental science, natural resource management, and STEM careers. Participants conduct mentored research, take field excursions, and present their final work at a summer research symposium.

PROGRAM SUMMARY

The Research and Applied Natural Resource Growth Experience (RANGE) is a 4-week residential summer research program hosted by the Tennessee State University College of Agriculture as part of the Center of Excellence for Land, Water, and Resource Management (COE-LWRM). Supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Centers of Excellence at 1890 Institutions Program, RANGE provides rising high school juniors and seniors with hands-on training in environmental science, agriculture, natural resource management, and emerging technologies that drive sustainable ecosystems. RANGE students engage in immersive research guided by faculty from TSU.

Participants explore research areas including:
• Soil health and carbon dynamics
• Water-quality monitoring and watershed resilience
• Land-use change, erosion control, and habitat restoration
• Forest and wetland health and biodiversity
• Precision agriculture, drones, sensor networks, and decision-support systems

Students live on campus, conduct supervised research, attend workshops, tour field sites, and present their work at a research symposium.

CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE RANGE PROGRAM PAGE