Paid FIRST alum summer internships

[lovelj]

Originally Posted by AustinNordman

One of our sponsors has been generous in providing paid internships to many of our students and alumni, myself included. By "completely paid for" do you mean the a third party would pay the student's salary?

Yes, a third party is interesting is paying for the student. No expense to the company other than working with the student and agreeing to hire a FIRST alum next year as a summer intern. The objective is to jump start a formal FIRST program.

[lovelj]

To add a little more detail, the goal is to start a formal FIRST program that makes it easy for companies to hire FIRST alums for college internships. This will compliment existing programs that a few large companies have already started. To kick start it, we have two agencies willing to pay for this year, committing between $500K and $1.5M. The student is free to the company. My concern is the short fuse, placing students this summer. This is why I'm reaching out to this community.

I need to fast track this, find students and companies immediately.