{"id":1897,"date":"2026-07-08T11:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2026-07-14T11:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:02:21","slug":"osu-extension-intern-explores-career-aspirations-through-current-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/2026\/07\/08\/osu-extension-intern-explores-career-aspirations-through-current-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"OSU Extension intern explores career aspirations through current opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey everyone! My name is Mackenzie Wesley, and I just wrapped up my sophomore year studying sports management and equine business management at Asbury University in Kentucky. I am so excited to get to serve this summer as the Klamath County Extension foresty intern. Having grown up in the Klamath Basin, I am thrilled at the chance to pour back into the community that has poured so much into me. This is my first year interning with the Klamath County Extension office, but I am excited about everything that is going to happen. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mackenzie Wesley leans against a fence post and smiles for a picture. Photo: Tyra Mast<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

I will be\u00a0assisting\u00a0our head of\u00a0foresty, Kidane Giday, in organizing a county-wide 6<\/span>th<\/span>\u00a0grade education event focused on forestry. During this tour, students will be exposed to various aspects of preservation,\u00a0maintenance\u00a0and general outdoor knowledge. This will be done through eight stations that will be set up in a loop with each station touching on a different aspect of natural resources and forestry knowledge. Having taken some natural resource and outdoor skill classes myself, I am incredibly excited to get to create a space where 6<\/span>th<\/span>\u00a0graders will get to learn about the world around them in a hands-on way. This event will also have natural resources and forestry professionals as educators at every station, which is an excellent way to build career awareness. I am looking forward to getting the opportunity to expand my event management skills as that is something that I am looking at going into once I graduate.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the summer I hope to improve my emailing skills, mass communication\u00a0skills\u00a0and gain a foundational understanding of what it takes to program and run an event such as the one I explained above. I am also looking forward to spending time learning more about forestry in the Klamath Basin and working with the incredible team at the Klamath Basin Research and Extension Center.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey everyone! My name is Mackenzie Wesley, and I just wrapped up my sophomore year studying sports management and equine business management at Asbury University in Kentucky. I am so excited to get to serve this summer as the Klamath County Extension foresty intern. Having grown up in the Klamath Basin, I am thrilled at… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14884,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,88],"tags":[311],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forestry-and-natural-resources","category-klamath-county","tag-mackenzie-wesley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14884"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1918,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/1918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}