www.mountsinai.org/childlife
KidZone TV Internship
KidZone TV at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital in New York City is an interactive broadcast studio where live programming is produced and aired four times a day, seven days a week, for pediatric patients and families within the hospital. KidZone TV Interns are 100% hands-on and are included in creative decisions. We provide a fun and creative learning environment where you will experience professional and personal growth while providing meaning service to our pediatric patients.
Interns are front and center in KidZone TV, daily hosting live shows for our patients and their families. Interns will have the opportunity to learn how to produce live television and learn how to manage a TriCaster broadcast system, soundboard, cameras, lights, and more. KZTV employs innovative uses of technology (remote studio, 3D printing, telepresence robots) to put the creative power of media in the hands of our patients. The skills that you gain here will help with all aspects of TV production. You will be introduced to institutional level professional collaboration with clinical staff, and take charge of coordinating patient and viewer participation. Join us and help put smiles on our pediatric patients and families' faces through the magic of live television and media production.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Mission Statement for the Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy Department
As a department, we are committed to providing care to our patients and families that is based on empathic understanding, is equitable and justice-minded, and is inherently anti-racist.
We strive:
To uphold Mount Sinai’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
To acknowledge and embrace different lived experiences
To maintain an openness to learning
To practice cultural humility
Work Expectations/Outcomes
Interns will learn and perform all elements of daily live production including patient experience planning, coordination of talent (patients and staff), show hosting, technical direction, camera/Tricaster operation, and graphic design.
Each intern will complete three guided production projects: one individual project, one group management project, and the creation of their own 30-minute program from concept to execution, with the purpose of engaging our patient community.
Interns will be immersed in the Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy Department, observing firsthand how our clinical team of child life specialists, music / art / recreational therapists provide pediatric patient and family-centered care.
Interns will assist with in-house special project filming and managing VIP/celebrity visits and special events.
Interns will perform in-house promotion of live sessions with our patients and families on the unit and at bedside.
Interns will work directly with patients to create media, co-view live shows, and offer enriching creative experiences.
Requirements (Students will receive academic credit for internship)
Completion of 130 hours. Can be completed as two six hour weekdays for ≈10 weeks or two eight hour weekdays for ≈8 weeks.
Clearance of hospital’s interview and application process.
Prior work experiences with children and/or adolescents and bilingual ability is a plus.
Please send a resume and two professional/academic letters of recommendation to contact below.
Contact: Luis.Borges@mountsinai.org
Luis Borges, Production Supervisor, KidZone TV and Patient Media / Administrator, Patient Gaming and Technology
The Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy Department, Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital
www.mountsinai.org/childlife
What kind of an internship experience will you have?
What exactly does it mean to be a KidZone TV intern? What opportunities and experiences happen here? Follow the code below to see the KZTV studio and listen to our recent interns tell you about their time at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s
Browse our Instagram feed to see the daily programming and live production that happens here in KidZone TV.
