New summer marketing intern working on CSPAR, FTPP projects
The new summer marketing and coordination intern for The University of Alabama in Huntsville’s Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) and its Future Technologies & enabling Plasma Processes (FTPP) grant office looks forward to gaining valuable experience as she pursues a primary or secondary education career with the goal of becoming an administrator.
A senior majoring in education at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, which is also her hometown, new intern Deonna Banks says she’s excited to immerse herself in FTPP activities.
“I’m eager to develop expertise in marketing and coordination,” she says. “I believe this opportunity could provide me with invaluable experience essential for aspiring administrators.”
FTPP Outreach Coordinator Laura Provenzani has wasted no time putting Banks to work.
“We are delighted to have Deonna here for the summer internship and I look forward to working closely with her on several important projects,” Provenzani says.
gaining experience
The internship will provide an opportunity for Banks to gain experience in marketing, communications and project administration, Provenzani says.
“Laura has given me the task of assisting her with facilitating a lesson for the Tech Trek camp,” Banks says. “For this task, she has asked me to create a presentation on particle detection that will be presented to 64 eighth-grade students. This is a preliminary activity serving as practice for a larger outreach initiative on the horizon.”
Another assignment is to create a booklet that will serve as a guide for International Space Weather Summer Camp students.
“This initiative aims to provide students with resources such as dining options, exploration destinations, schedule management and navigation guidance,” Banks says.
FTPP is funded by a $20 million National Science Foundation Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research grant and managed by UAH. It’s a consortium of nine Alabama universities and a research corporation to fund cutting-edge university plasma physics research, commercialize new plasma technologies and develop an Alabama plasma science and engineering workforce to stimulate thousands of high-paying jobs.