2021 Intern Reports
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.
2021 Program Cohorts
Cohort 1 – Academic Year – September thru April
Cohort 2 – Summer – June thru August
Sue Fricano; IMSA Innovation and Inquiry Program Manager
in2@imsa.edu
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Creating Virtual Health Courses for Public Use and Public Awareness
Akash Basavaraju '22
Health resources are crucial to promoting healthier behaviors in society. Robust marketing campaigns are often utilized by healthcare workers and organizations to raise awareness about such health resources. A common method of marketing is community outreach. Community outreach is the process by ... Read More
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How Growth Hacking Affects a Startup
Bhavyaa Chauhan '23
Blabl.io started as an app designed to make pediatric speech therapy easier and engaging for children. Since then, it has pivoted into a platform for customer success specialists to track value realization through data visualization and reports.
This pivot launched the original ... Read More
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Investment Analysis: The Effectiveness of Flipping Real Estate
Kaylee Zhou
As an appraisal firm, Alpha Valuations focuses on providing quality service and expertise to customers. The company's objective is to provide service to those interested in knowing the amount for which a property will transact on a particular date (Pagourtzi, 2003). The ... Read More
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Period Poverty Awareness Campaign
Irene Sooah Park
This report is on the Period Poverty Awareness Campaign carried out by the Office of State Representative Barbara Hernandez. It consisted of three events, including the Period Product Drop-Off Event, Distribution Event, and Menstrua Bill Town Hall Event. My role in this ... Read More
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Saluting Success - Benefits and Jobs for Veterans
Abhiram Pasupula '22
Throughout this internship, I, Abhi Pasupula, have worked with my internship mentor, Barry Federici, in order to help him start up a new service. This service is targeted specifically towards veterans and their paths in their lives after they retire from the ... Read More
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Status of Vitamin D in children with Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS)
Gabriel Delgado '22
Numerous studies from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) have proven that there is an association between autoimmunity regulation and Vitamin D deficiency. Consequently, it has been theorized that improvement of Vitamin D levels will also help moderate autoimmunity levels. However, ... Read More
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Technology’s Aid in Startups
Irene Liu '23
In the present day, it is crucial for startups to develop a strong internet and digital presence. In its growing stages, companies must leverage technology to gain traction in their work. As a start-up in its second year, Encore Batavia needed to ... Read More
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The Impact of Web Design on Content Marketing
Nandana Varma '23
Over the course of the summer, I interned for Family First Physicians and through the work I performed, I was able to research the impact of web design on content marketing. Family First Physicians is a private practice focused on women’s and ... Read More
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TurnUp: The Youth Activism App
Michelle Li '23
TurnUp is an organization that focuses on empowering and connecting young activists through their training program and social networking application. Throughout my internship, I contributed to TurnUp as a general intern as well as a co-team leader. I performed weekly tasks exploring ... Read More
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Virtual Speech Therapy Client Outreach
Rujuta Durwas '22
Blabl: Smarter Speech Therapy is an app that is used to aid students that suffer from speech impediments, and is mainly utilized by speech language pathologists for their patients, parents who are looking to help their sppech-imparied children, and other younger kids/students ... Read More