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[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Darkswordsmith

Anyways, i have a question though, how do you guys apply to the summer internships or get jobs in a company over the summer?

Bingo on the networking answer. At a competition event, there are TONS of very important people present. Listen to the judges being introduced...an awful lot are CEOs, vice-presidents, and managers. Strike up a conversation and you'd be surprised at the opportunities that are presented.

For your first internship - and especially if you are still in high school - don't expect to get paid much if at all. You don't do internships for cash (although if you do a good job, it will start to pour in; I'm making a respectable wage for doing robotics/control systems programming all day!).

So to sum it up, find someone important and talk - don't be afraid to ask about their company and inquire about internship positions. Don't beg and grovel, but if you can make it apparent that you will be able to help a company out, they will quickly bring you in if they can. Still, some (mostly larger) companies have a more formal college-only (sometimes graduate-level only) internship policy. But it never hurts to ask.

After all, for what the average intern makes, the company is making off like a bandit