Good Bye Everbody

After having brought you such fascinating blogs as “ NOLS Adventures in Space” and countless Student Press Release to towns across America (my personal favorite being Truth or Consequences, New Mexico), it has come time for the Marketing & Public Relations interns to go. For those of you who don’t know us we are Shara Brown and Will Barkan.

( Shara & Will)

Besides the climbing, road racing and near death experiences there are lots of things to look back on. I arrived at NOLS this past June wondering what an internship would be like working in an office that pursues the wilderness. I found myself primarily coordinating and supporting Press Releases on students and expanding media for the NOLS Bus program. Shara arrived in September with the “can do” country attitude of upstate New York that she applied to coordinating the shipping of NOLS promotional materials and research and development of marketing projects of all shapes and sizes. Outside of providing support to standard marketing efforts, we worked day and night (which is fairly easy when it gets dark at 4pm) on NOLS’ “ Creating a Climate for Change” program conducting extensive research on NOLS carbon emissions and ways in which we can reduce and offset those emissions. It’s been fun and interesting helping make the building blocks for the next NOLS evolution in environmental ethics.
Throughout our time here we’ve done some hard work, had some good times and learned the behind the scenes face of NOLS. It takes a lot of people and work to keep NOLS running the way it does and we’re proud to have been a part of it. In January Shara will be returning to school at SUNY (State University of New York) at Delhi to finish her degree in Business Administration. I will be returning to Washington D.C. to continue work in the research field of International Energy Security. We will miss many things at NOLS including Joe Austin’s office athletic equipment, t-shirt folding parties, sorting NOLS paraphernalia, daily shenanigans and attacks from Laurel in the mail room, getting all bloodied up to be a practice victim for a W-EMT courses, Gookin bear fence demos and the scamper of feet chasing each other down the hallway and the dumb founded realization that your boss has engaged in a game of tag with senior NOLS staff.
Thanks for all the fun and learning
The Marketing & PR Interns

P.S. Joe Austin and his in office Athletic Shenanigans