How is a business or organization structured or designed? How do you lead or manage a business project? What types of activities go into developing a business or product? How do you nurture business relationships, network and build a team? How do you develop your competitive advantage? How do you test a product and do market research? How can you market a product in the world effectively? These are some of the questions we explore in the Internship program.
The IMSA Internship program connects high school juniors & seniors to real-world learning experiences with business professionals, nonprofits and entrepreneurial mentors to carry out an industry, business or product-focused research project. Our interns offer a fresh perspective on your business, strategies and plans and possess desired professional skills. Internship is a non-graduation requirement. IMSA Interns are unpaid and earn 1.0 semester credit hour upon completion.
2020 Program Cohorts
Cohort 1 – Academic Year – September thru April
Cohort 2 – Summer – June thru August
Betty Hart; Innovation Program Manager
Sue Fricano; Center Coordinator
in2@imsa.edu
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Venture Capital and Marketing with K8 Ventures
Simone-Nicole Angelov '21
I completed an internship with K8 Ventures, a Venture Builder Studio in Chicago. I had the opportunity to work on projects for K8 as well as P3rceive, one of their major portfolio companies. My time with the company has allowed me to ... Read More
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DealerFox Data Visualization
Zoe Berthold '21
Dealer Fox is a start-up that provides data visualization and consulting for advertisements of car dealerships online to help increase efficiency of sales. The business project was to streamline the process of data visualization, from collecting the data to presenting it using ... Read More
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Using Social Media as a Marketing Tool for Scholarships
Brooke Bolsinger '21
Scholarship Assistance Fund is a nonprofit organization with the mission of supporting local students (Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Mt. Prospect, Prospect Heights, and Wheeling) that aim to achieve a higher education. The focus of the business project involved a few different parts, ... Read More
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Building the Coursestars Brand
Melena Braggs '21
The main purpose of this project was to build the brand of Course Stars, a small tutoring business based in Illinois. This brand building was done through Facebook and Instagram, and the project lasted from November 2019 to March 2020. In that ... Read More
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Marketing Internship
Alejandro Carrillo '21
Qooley is a company focused on providing the best travel experience for tourists by connecting them with knowledgeable locals in the area they are visiting. The purpose of this business project was to help Qooley develop their marketing techniques and to increase ... Read More
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An In Depth Look Of Marketing at Xenwork
Amanda Chen
Xenwork is an Information Technology service company that offers an array of solutions for its business clients. Emphasis is placed on its one of a kind software development as well as algorithms to help improve the technological side of its clients. With ... Read More
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Marketing and Design Applications in Website Development
Amanda Chen
Are there universal guidelines that ensure the efficacy of a business website’s design and marketing appeal to consumers? Through the field studies of competitor businesses of private tutoring company CourseStars, LLC. as well as research journals confirming the significance of behavioral economics ... Read More
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Summer Internship Report
Isabel Chen '22
“Baby boomer,” “millennial,” and “Generations X and Z” are all familiar terms referring to the different Western cultural generations beginning from the late nineteenth century. And as they all signify a period of time in history, there are an array of associated ... Read More
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Social Media Marketing
Christo Ekimov '22
Hespr is a mental health startup that believes that mental health is both a personal journey as well as a community one. Hespr is building an application that incorporates this idea using a guided journal, which facilitates the personal journey and a ... Read More
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Marketing with SAT Analysis
Aryan Gandhi '21
As an intern at Coursetars, I was introduced into the tutoring industry. I had never received or given tutoring before, unless it was my little sister, so it was very informative to see how these companies worked. One thing that I worked ... Read More
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Graphic Design Internship
Jonathan Gao '21
I have always been my own boss. From self-learning graphic design, starting in third grade, to practicing graphic design for clubs and organizations under my digression. I have been lucky enough to work for mainly myself and, when working for others, have ... Read More
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SafeStart Medical: An Innovative HIT Solution to Never Events (WSPE)
Shikhar Gupta '22
SafeStart Medical is a health information technology company offering a healthcare system, or electronic health record, that reduces dangerous handoff and communication errors, reduces delays and cancellations in the operating room, and empowers the patient as an active member of their care ... Read More
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Civicly Envolved Intership: Working on the Candidate Profile Screen
Patrick Hultquist '21
Going into any situation, I think I’m always a little overconfident. This was no exception. I had previously made an (unimpressive) app, had talked to people before, and knew how to work with a team; so this would be all the same, ... Read More
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Blabl Outreach Program
Kayson Ijisesan
Blabl is a speech therapy company that focuses on helping and improving speech impairments found in its clients (most of them being youth). The main focus of the project was to help find potential customers for the business Blabl. To do this ... Read More
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Website and Communications / Development with IAGC
Nathan Joseph '21
This summer, I completed a summer IMSA Internship with the Illinois Association for Gifted Children (IAGC), a non-profit aimed to provide quality education to students across the state. During this internship, I worked independently and remotely due to COVID-19 with some assistance ... Read More
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Assessing Integenerational Programs through Market Research
Rohit Kartha '22
Intergenerational is an adjective that describes something that involves or affects several generations. Intergenerational programs are programs which increase interaction and exchange between people of different generations. There are several benefits of intergenerational programs. Some include generating a sense of purpose for ... Read More
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How to Increase a Company's Social Media Presence
Eunice Kim '22
The project pursued in this report is called “How to Increase a Company’s Social Media Presence.” In this context, “social media presence” will refer to how frequently Hespr posts and is active on Instagram, the levels of engagement on posts, and types ... Read More
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Internship with CourseStars
Aakash Kumar '21
The plan of the company was to rework some parts of their website to automate submissions by employees and to attract more clients. The company I was interning with was CourseStars, a company that prides itself on finding excelled tutors to serve ... Read More
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Medical Billing Application Development Project
Ji Yoon Lee '20
The following report gives a detailed description of the internship carried out by Ji Yoon Lee throughout the duration of the 2019-2020 internship cohort at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. The final product created, the process followed in order to create ... Read More
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WeSolv: MBA Job Analysis
Xiaofan Li '21
WeSolv is a startup that focuses on bringing the most qualified candidates to prospective hiring companies by designing and utilizing case challenges to accurately assess the candidates’ skill sets. The case challenges consist of several activities (presentations, research, etc.) that the candidates ... Read More
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Internship Business Project Final Report
Elvin McLcLaughlin '20
Blabl is a small startup company based in London, England. The goal of this startup is to provide readily available, affordable, and high quality speech pathology lessons to youth in need through the use of a digital app. As a result will ... Read More
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Multi-Phenomena Internship with CourseStars
Joanna Menendie
CourseStars is an online tutoring company that caters to students from kindergarten all the way to college. The company has been focusing on community outreach, among several other things. They wanted to focus on some other aspects of their business more ... Read More
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SAFESTART: Simplifying Technology for Seniors
Melissa Myint '21
Our project is nonprofit and aims to help seniors understand how to use technology in their daily lives by creating videos that are simple and easy to follow.As in this day and age seniors are afraid to use their smart devices other ... Read More
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SAFESTART: Simplifying Technology for Seniors
Savannah Pagan '20
Within our project, my partner and I aimed to fulfill the goal of simplifying technology usage for senior citizens. Seniors are often left behind in terms of technology, often because no one has taken the time to sit down with them and ... Read More
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Understanding Covid-19s Effect on Commerce through Machine Learning
Madhav Parthasarathy '21
During these trying times, the novel virus has taken its toll on the economy. As a result, there must be a method to prevent any further loss in revenue for grocers especially. I started this project off, by researching the topic and ... Read More