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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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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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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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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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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The Value of Visual Marketing as a Tool to Gain Consumer Interest
Shivani Venkatraman '21
This year, I interned for the company SWAMR HR, their parent company being ThoughtWave Software and Solutions. SWARM HR is a company in the IT Industry, and I worked in the Marketing and Sales Department as an Inside Sales Intern. SWARM HR’s ... 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
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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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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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Venture Capital and Marketing with K8 Ventures
Rosario Picone '21
K8 Ventures is a venture builder studio, with investments in a diverse range of industries. K8’sgreatest skill is developing companies in-house, starting at Stage 1, what they call “an idea written on a napkin,” to Stage 5, which is a successful business ... Read More
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Web Developing with Block Bins
Rajan Savani '21
Block Bins is a compost collection company based in Chicago that creates food scrap drop off points using shared bins, providing an inexpensive solution to people who want to compost their food scrap. This service is enabled with a website, automation, and ... 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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WeSolv: Business Project Final Report
Doreen Xiao '20
WeSolv is an innovative technology platform with a driven mission to advance equity in the career hiring field. WeSolv works with companies from Salesforce to Pinterest, to identify key skills companies prioritize for certain positions to create personalized Case Challenges for MBA ... 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