The National Council for Preservation Education’s Internship Program was founded in 1991 in partnership with the National Park Service (NPS). The first interns were hired in 1992 and worked at the NPS headquarters building in Washington, D.C., with Technical Preservation Services to research and write Preservation Briefs. Since that time, over 6000 college students and recent graduates have participated in the program, interning at National Parks and other NPS units, as well as with other federal agencies, including the Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service, the General Services Administration, the Department of Defense, among others. Interns work in a variety of cultural resource protection and public lands management fields, from curatorial and collections to archeological surveys, from recording historic structures to eradicating invasive species, from tribal consultation to art conservation. The work is meaningful to the interns and essential to the mission of the agencies. The Internship Program fulfills NCPE’s mission to coordinate efforts related to preservation education with public and private organizations.