>> My name is Omar Eaton-Martinez and I work as the Inter and Fellows Program Manager
at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
The museum has been around since 1964.
It actually existed as a national museum of the history of science and technology.
Then 1980, we had a visionary director by the name of Roger Kennedy who transformed it
to the National Museum of America History.
What I do essentially is I recruit students for internships in our spring, summer,
and fall session which is essentially takes us our whole year.
I also help place them once they apply with our staff based on the needs of the staff,
based on the learning objectives of the students that apply.
I also manage the fellows program, which actually comes to our center office
and then once they apply and they get placed in our unit, then we take--
my office takes over the administrative duties to making sure we on board them.
Making sure they have a connection with their advisor and access
to the collection they'll be research.
I'm an email-aholic so I have to check my email and make sure
that everybody's questions are answered.
I get questions from staff about internship project and intern--
getting interns to the point they're working their projects.
I get questions from prospective students who want to come in and--
and be interns with the Smithsonian.
And also we reach out a lot to partnering with schools like University of Maryland,
College Park and others to create sustainable relationships between our two institutions.