Robin Fernald of Little Cranberry Island has been awarded a six-week summer internship in Sen. Susan Collins’ Capitol Hill office in Washington.

Fernald will work in the communications office, helping with media relations and interoffice communications.

Fernald is the son of Barb and Bruce Fernald of Little Cranberry Island and is a 2001 graduate of Mount Desert Island High School.

This fall, he will be a senior at Goucher College in Baltimore, Md., and plans to graduate with a degree in political science in spring 2005.

Fernald is considering attending law school and pursuing a career in politics.