Comments on: Silicon Florist internship challenge

By: Stacey

Stacey — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:18:02 +0000

Many high schools have people whose job it is to set up mentorships and job shadows within the community. If the usual cast of characters (medical careers, school positions, police or fire station) aren’t a good fit, they’ll dig deeper to find likely community partners. Advocating for such a position in every high school would be good. Could you access administrator or school board organizations at the state or regional level about this?

By: Nate Angell

Nate Angell — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:11:19 +0000

Great idea! One way to maybe make it more workable would be to partner with Saturday Academy’s Apprenticeships in Science & Engineering program, which can line up the interns if you can help line up the companies ready for interns. I’ll pass the ASE director’s info on to you offline.

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By: Lev

Lev — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:16:33 +0000

As I mentioned in a previous post, I would be interested in taking on intern to work on Level OS and/or one of my side projects. Not sure what I’d be getting into, but I think it seems like a good idea.

By: Tim Denney

Tim Denney — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:46:48 +0000

@Audrey: thanks for the suggestion. I’ll check them out. Too bad I couldn’t make it tonight.

@Isaac: thanks for the reply. I already sent you an email. I’m looking forward to hearing from you.

By: James Helms

James Helms — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:54:46 +0000

Great idea, Concordia has an entrepreneurship program and this opportunity would be appealing to many people. Here are a couple people at Concordia that I would recommend contacting:
Dr. Steve Krause (Internship Director)
Dr. Steve Braun (School of Management Dean)
Are you thinking of setting this up for interns with coding, developing experience? Or would it be open to a variety of student types?

By: Josh Bancroft

Josh Bancroft — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:15:24 +0000

Only skimmed the recent comments, but perhaps we could avoid some of the bureaucracy challenges by calling these mentorships instead of internships? Since I’ll probably be doing this more as an individual than with my company, that makes sense to me. But it might not for everyone else. Just an idea.

By: Isaac Holeman

Isaac Holeman — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:40:23 +0000

@Tim Denney: Working on a social change/RoR project that you might be interested in. We are looking for another developer so let me know at isaac [at] squarepegged [dot] org if you are interested.
cheers

http://www.squarepegged.org

By: Audrey

Audrey — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:19:08 +0000

@Tim Denney: This isn’t an internship exactly, but there’s a local open source project called Calagator that’s always looking for participants. We do most of our work during bi-weekly Saturday code sprints, so it’s a great opportunity to practice agile development techniques, and get experience with web development in Ruby on Rails. You can find out more at http://calagator.org.

By: Tim Denney

Tim Denney — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:44:19 +0000

I’m currently a computer science student at Portland State University. I would recommend checking out their CS job board system. It always seems to have interesting positions and is readily available to all CS students. If you would like to post a position, email jobs at pdx.edu as per the instructions at (http://cs.pdx.edu/user/employment) There is more information on other internship options here: http://www.ece.pdx.edu/student_resources/industry_jobs.php

It might also be beneficial to contact the ACM group. They normally have a good active group of CS students that meet weekly. Maybe someone could arrange to talk during one of their meetings. Their information can be found here: http://www.acm.pdx.edu/

I’m currently involved with the MECOP program, which is an internship organization among OSU, PSU and OIT. This program involves students from multiple engineering disciples ECE, CS, EE, etc. I believe more than 65 local companies are involved and they are always looking for more. Students participate in two six month internships (April – Sept) over a two year period. This program has quite a bit more structure to get involved with, but it has a good group of students and exposure. More information can be found at: mecop.oregonstate.edu

I’d love to get involved at a startup, but I already have an internship starting Monday with Intel. My position at Intel looks like it will be a hiatus from software development, so I’ll have to figure out a project for evenings and weekends. Any suggestions?