OC Intern Blog – Archive

OC Board President, Bobby Gierisch, has always been rural at heart. After growing up in a small Texas town, Bobby earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in Sociology, then spent most

Ogallala Commons organized another Youth Engagement Day in early October over at Floydada, TX.  The event was held in the high school gym, with groups of students from 6 area

On October 14th, Ogallala Commons finished up its 2015 Playa and River Festival season with a program at OC’s Playa Classroom for 5th graders from Nazareth and Kress schools.  This

Before my internship with Ogallala Commons, I would have passed through a town like Nazareth without much thought other than perhaps, “How do people live here? It’s so small –

I am beginning my second internship with Ogallala Commons and the High Plains Food Co-op. I am excited about what we were able to accomplish during my last internship and

Finishing my internship, I will be working full time with First Nations Development Institute. So far I had been working with coordinating events for our LEAD conference and also helping

For my community service during my second internship I chose to work with habitat for humanity again. The reason I chose them is because since the first time that I

The days, nights, and Months working with the people, the organizations, and projects has been truly amazing. Throughout this entire internship i have made new discoveries about my culture, the

For my community service project i focused on helping the elderly and disabled. The ways that we were brought up was to always help one another out that we are

Now that fall is here, there are even more assets of common wealth in the Denver area. There is now more leisure and recreation available such as corn mazes, haunted

With my first internship I started working a lot on the 2015 LEAD anniversary conference. Much of what I was doing was working on registration for the conference and also