Wabash students again engaged in telling stories about Indiana's history and culture through the 2008 Present Indiana Program. The Lilly Endowment Inc. funded program.

Students researched the roots of jazz in Indiana, the state's rich history with NASA astronauts, the booming greenway trail systems, Crispus Attucks historic state basketball championship, and even Jim Davis and Garfield

To contact Wabash about a presentation, click here. Download a brochure describing the program here.

Each summer students are selected for an 8-week summer internship to study some area of Hoosier history or culture. The students prepare a presentation they can make to various groups during the school year.

The students maintain a blog about some of the experiences you can read here.

Present Indiana will serve audiences that include international students studying in Indiana, elementary and middle school students, personnel directors and small business leaders, newly relocated employees to the area, as well as new faculty and staff at Wabash College.

The 2008 projects are shown at the right. Take a look at the 2006 projects by clicking here. To view the 2005 Present Indiana Projects click here. Read about the 2007 Present Indiana Projects here.

Present Indiana is part of a Lilly Endowment grant.

In photo above: The 2008 PIP Interns. Top row: Liljie Ding, Alex Moseman, Alex Avtgis, Joel Patterson, Sean Huston, Joel Bustamante, Kevin Long, Kyle Frederick. Seated: Cody Stipes, Greg Slisz, George Padgitt, John McGaughey. Not in photograph: Seth Einterz