From Leadership – Director Morgan Zantua
To intern or not to intern: that is the question. 

Experiential learning is a key component to building a successful technology career and the leadership message this week is simply to consider using the internship option as part of your STC program. 

Internship courses at STC provide students an opportunity to integrate work experience into a supervised work-based experiential setting. We understand, an internship opportunity may not fit into your schedule while you are a student at STC. Nevertheless, consider the benefits of providing internships later in your career to students entering your field of technology.   
Why do companies offer internships? Companies and organizations want to ‘give back’ to the learning community and access the resources students bring to the workplace. Interns lighten the workload in a department. More often managers want to ‘try out’ a student to determine if this individual is a good cultural fit and has the skills the company needs.   
Internships can be a paid or an unpaid experience. The true values of an internship are applying academic learning to ‘real-world’ applications, building your resume, and developing work references. Studies demonstrate interns get hired 50% to 67% of the time by their internship site. Not all organizations, non-profits, government organizations, and corporations have the budget to hire every intern. However, students who complete internships get hired at a faster rate than students without internships.  

STC undergraduate and graduate programs provide specific requirements for internships. The CityU catalog describes the internship course for your degree. Consult with your Program Manager for specific information. Here is a list of internships currently available: 
   – Pikes Place Market Senior Center is currently seeking intern(s) to educate, training, and set up systems to support 20 low-income senior citizens in the use of Smart Phones using T-Mobile Hot-Spots to safely conduct personal business using the internet.  #cybersecurity, #website development,#youtube library documentation. Unpaid.  
   – Unique Bakery seeks the services of full-stack web developers. Internships for programmers with C+ and C# skills. Paid and Unpaid.  
   – T-Mobile’s Tech X internship program will interview sophomore and juniors at the end of May for cybersecurity internships starting in October. These are paid internship opportunities managed by T-Mobile. More information will be available later in the month. 
For more information about the internship opportunities listed above and upcoming opportunities fill out this form.