A group of interns are continuing their collaboration with the College of Arts and Humanities to complete two main projects for the college’s social media platforms. The team focuses on creating video content for the CAH Instagram account in order to attract prospective students and advertise events happening within the college. This semester, the interns are also helping lead the way on a new partnership with Global Black Studies in the style of “MTV Cribs” to showcase the offices of GBS professors and make students feel more comfortable entering and engaging in those spaces. 

To encourage young students to read, the Pearce Interns are helping second graders at Central Academy of the Arts write and publish their very own book. The interns are working with students to help write and illustrate a story before assembling the book and giving it to the students at a celebration. In Fall 2024, interns visited all three second-grade classrooms at Central Academy of the Arts to assist students in researching and writing about their favorite animals. Once the stories were complete, interns worked in Adobe InDesign to create the layout of the book and prepare it for publication. At the end of Spring 2025, interns will visit the school once more for a publication party to celebrate the first-time authors and their accomplishment. 

This semester the Pearce Center continues their collaboration with the Office of Experiential Learning. Interns began doing research on making a new experiential learning podcast and recorded the first episode to launch as a pilot in the Spring. This concerted effort not only celebrates the achievements of individuals but also serves as a platform to advocate for the value of experiential learning within the University community. By showcasing these stories and insights, the initiative seeks to foster a culture of active participation and continuous growth among Clemson students.

This semester the Digital Marketing team is working with the VID interns to run the Pearce Center Instagram account. We create informational posts about different Pearce Center programs, highlight interns and the accomplishments of seniors and make creative posts about the behind the scenes of Pearce Interns. 

Throughout the course of the semester, this team is working to finish/update brand new website for the Free Clinic. An extremely important aspect of this project is ensuring the website is ADA compliant and to make sure that all the vital information is translated into Spanish to make it accessible to all community members. 

The Pearce Interns have been working with the Pickens County Habitat for Humanity for a few years now on their social media. This semester, interns assisted with marketing and promoting the 2024 Homecoming Build, creating content for Habitat’s social media and writing articles for its monthly newsletters. 

The Magnolia House is a new partner for the Pearce Interns this semester, and the team has been working primarily on helping the organization polish its branding and have cohesive messaging across partner organizations. The interns are also working on developing quarterly newsletter updates and updating the current website to make it reflective of recent changes to the location. 

The Pearce Interns work in collaboration with the VID interns to produce the semesterly Pearce Center newsletter. This semester, the interns are creating content in a verity of mediums, including text and video, to showcase the Pearce Center’s programs and initiatives. The newsletter is available on our publications page. 

For Fall 2024, Pearce Interns are assisting Ripple of One in marketing its resell store. The store offers second-hand goods for affordable prices, and all the proceeds go straight to helping Ripple’s clients and programming. Interns are working to create a cohesive marketing strategy focused on social media that will attract more buyers into the store. 

This semester on the Tiger Tales team, interns continue to work on telling the local stories of the Clemson community. This semester, the Tiger Tales team connected with their fellow Pearce interns to create a schedule of stories to post throughout the months. Pearce Interns signed up for a date and then are expected to come up with and write their own Tiger Tales stories. These stories are then edited and formatted by the Tiger Tales team and Pearce Staff before being posted on the Tiger Tales Instagram page for the entire Clemson community to enjoy.

The UPIC team is in charge of producing the UPIC magazine. This project is conducted over both semesters, This semester, the team is focusing on interviewing UPIC interns and mentors in order to write the articles for the magazine. They have also been gathering photos and deciding on a magazine theme, which will be designed an published next semester. Previous UPIC magazines are available on our Publications page. 

Pearce Interns are continuing their partnership with a local children’s choir, Young Voices of the Foothills. The interns are creating social media content that highlights students of the week, upcoming events and fun facts about singing. They are also working to produce a promotional video for the choir in order to increase participation and engagement.