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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Analyzing Pricing Models in the Context of Mental Health Markets
Edward Zhang '22
In today’s world, mental health is becoming an increasingly important issue. To address, this the crossroads between technology and healthcare has become more and more apparent, with many mental heath apps seeking to help consumers on this issue and reduce stigma.Hespr is ... 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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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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Blabl Client Outreach
Mark Ying '21
Blabl is an app that helps kids practice their speech through stories that are more child oriented and fun as they work on their speech and move through levels/maps in the game. The app also has an online dashboard that allows parents ... 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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Blabl: Smarter Speech Therapy
Saicharan Voora '21
Blabl is an app that helps children with speech impediments gain smarter speech practice, through a fill in the blank story-telling format. Using a gamification model children remain motivated by their desire to unlock new stories and win coins to buy new ... 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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Business Project Final Report
Elasia Rodriguez '21
The STEM Pathways Project Team and I work with the Center for Innovation and Inquiry (IN2) on implementing the College and Career Pathway Endorsements program (CCPE)through the Post-Secondary Workforce Readiness Act (PWRA or PWR act). I am the lead intern, Elasia Rodriguez, ... 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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Comparing Methods of Initial Launches for TurnUP and Facebook
Emily Shao '21
TurnUP Activism is creating a youth activism application that allows their users to engage with community activism within their area and connect with others who are interested in activism. The business is founded by incoming Harvard student Zev Shapiro, who was inspired ... 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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Developing an Accurate Method and Algorithm to Identify and Match Tutors with their Respective Students, According to Intellectual Level and Teaching Style
Vasanth Ramesh
Course Stars, LLC is a quality tutoring service focused on helping high school college students excel in specific college courses, or standardized tests, through the help of experienced tutors (who have taken those specialized courses before). The unique aspect of Course Stars ... Read More
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Easy-to-Use Augmented Reality in the Mobile Industry: an Internship Experience
Abhi Vinnakota '21
This report details the work and research I have completed over the past few months with BUNDLAR. This company is a startup located in startup incubator 1871. BUNDLAR is currently developing their augmented reality mobile app that will launch in the near ... 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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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 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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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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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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Marketing Experience: Analysis of Competitors
Kaylee Zhou '22
Hespr is a start-up that focuses on promoting mental health by providing an app for the community. While the app is still in its early access program, Hespr's development team has been working diligently to improve various aspects and features. Throughout my ... 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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Marketing & Website Visual Development to Enhance Communication for IAGC
Makayla Zheng '22
In the Business Context portion, the general description of the industry and organization are detailed. I interned for the Illinois Association for Gifted Children (IAGC), a nonprofit organization that works in the field of education, helping to promote the development of gifted ... 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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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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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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My Internship with the State Representative: An Overview
Nathan Tamez '21
My name is Nathan Tamez, and I am a Junior (‘21) at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. I am currently thinking of going into Engineering (most likely Automotive or Mechanical). Honestly, I did not know what to expect when I signed ... Read More