Site Educator at Peter Wentz Farmstead

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Site Educator at Peter Wentz Farmstead

• Amanda Rockwood
• Senior Internship
• Spring 2007

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Roles and Responsibilities of the Profession

• Planning and running programs at Farmstead (Ex
  Sheep shearing day and the Servitude program)
• scheduling tours and groups for the farmstead
• Writing grants to get money for programs
• Giving tours to groups that come to visit the
  farmstead
• Dealing w/ all the workers, volunteers and people
  that come in
• Going to meetings

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Activities and Projects I saw my mentor involved
in

• Scheduling tours/groups coming to the farmstead
• Giving tours
• Locking up the Peter Wentz Farmstead house
• Making a nature brochure
• Planning and preparing for events such as Sheep
  shearing and servitude programs
• Writing a grant for the Servitude program at the
  Farmstead

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Activities and Projectsmy mentor allowed me to
participate in as a high school intern

• Shadowing tours and groups that came to visit the
  farmstead
• Having access to the office library to work on my
  colonial dancing research project
• Moving artifacts in the house
• Participating in Sheep shearing day

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Activities and Projects continued
Sheep shearing Day
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This profession matched my expectations in the
following ways

• Learned a lot about entering a career in the
  history field and of the farmstead
• Fun it was fun being able to do some many cool
  things, like move artifacts and shadow tours

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This profession matched my expectations in the
following ways

• Interesting got to learn some many new and
  different things
• Helping w/ events, shadowing tours, researching a
  project etc
• Exciting I got to do things people my age dont
  usually do

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This profession was not what I expected in the
following ways

• I didnt realize how much planning and time goes
  in to making on event possible
• I didnt realize how hard the Farmstead has to
  work to get grants and money for their programs
  and things they want to do on the Farmstead

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The Environment in which I worked

• The atmosphere in the office at the farmstead is
  really relaxed. Everyone that works in the office
  gets along extremely well w/ one another so they
  goof off throughout the day.

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The Environment in which I worked

• There was never the feeling of being rushed to do
  something. There are many volunteers and other
  people that come in and out of the office, so a
  lot of the times it is buzzing w/ people. But
  other times it can be really quiet. The phone is
  always ringing.

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The Environment in which I worked

• The amount of people I work w/ in one day is
  probably about 2 or 3 at the most. There are many
  volunteers and other people that come in and out
  of the office, but usually I dont work w/ them.
  I usually end up working w/ Kim my mentor, Morgan
  who is the site curator or Diane who is the
  director of the farmstead.

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The People I worked with

• The people that I worked w/ were extremely nice
  and helpful, whenever I needed help w/ something,
  there was also someone I could go to.
• Everyone got along great with each other, it was
  like one little happy family
• All the volunteers were so nice to me.

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My advice for students interested in this
field/profession

• Join a historical society (Millbrook Historical
  Society)
• Start volunteering at a site or museum of some
  sort (Peter Wentz Farmstead, Graeme Park)
• Take history courses

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I chose to intern in this professional area
because

• I have always enjoyed history and learning about
  it.
• It has always been something that interest me
• I love to travel and I think this field there is
  good opportunity to do it

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During Senior Internship I learned

• During my internship I learned that is definitely
  what I want to do w/ my life. I want to go into
  the history field and I hope to end up working at
  a historic site of some sort eventually.

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During Senior Internship I learned

• Maybe even possibly working at Peter Wentz. I
  just love the environment there, the people, the
  atmosphere, the events/programs that they do. I
  really lucked out on being able to work w/ such
  great people. I know that I dont want to be a
  history teacher but by getting a job as an
  educator of a site like Kim is would allow me to
  work w/ kids which is something I still want to
  do even though I dont want to be a teacher

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My Internship

• Peter Wentz Farmstead
• 2100 Schultz Rd.WORCESTER, PA 19490 Telephone
  610-584-5104
• No website
• Mentor Kim Boice
• Mentors job titleSite Educator

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Pictures
Genealogy of Wentz and Schultz family
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Displays done by Morgan
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Schultz Property 19th century
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