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The Internship project provides an opportunity for students to work on open source projects in the fields of software, product development, project management, and UI/UX research and design at LA’s fastest growing Civic Tech non-profit organization during their summer.
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IS22: Search for potential partners #113

Closed Rabia2219 closed 2 years ago

Rabia2219 commented 2 years ago

Overview

We need to reach out to other schools to find out if they have any internship opportunity offerings and if its not too late to be included.

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Findings/Progress

Note: Brentwood mentions the Internship program on their website but there is no contact information for potential sponsors. Also HackforLA is not listed in the list of past sponsors.

Marlborough: Internship program not mentioned on website. Spoke to Amy at the Front Office who said she could forward my email to Allison Ponzio. I found the email listed on the website. Front Office Phone Number: 323.935.1147 AMY RIECKELMAN Front Office Coordinator Amy.Rieckelman@marlborough.org DR. ALLISON PONZIO Honors Research in Science Program Head, Science Instructor allison.ponzio@marlborough.org

Havard-Westlake: Internship program not mentioned on website. Spoke to Maria who directed me to Pat Notle who did not pick up and Maria isn't even sure that she's the right person to talk to. Front Office Phone Number: 818-980-669 MARIA ARIAS Receptionist and Admission Assistant Div: MS 310-288-3207 (Not a 100% if this is the Maria I spoke to as she did not give me her last name) PAT NOLTE Administrative Assistant Div: US 818-487-6655 (Their emails are not listed but there's an option to SEND MESSAGE which opens up a form) Note: I had to rewrite the email into a 500 word message to fit the form requirements: Hello Pat, I am reaching out to you on behalf of HackforLA's Internship Program, which had partnered with Brentwood School as a sponsor last year. This year we would like to extend our program to more LA area high schools and would like to know: If Harvard-Westlake has a summer internship placement program that HackforLA could sponsor? Is there still time for HackforLA to officially sign up as a sponsor? What is the process to do so? I look forward to hearing from you soon. Regards, Rabia Shaikh

Archer: Internship program not mentioned on website. Spoke to ---- who directed the call to the Communication Office. Spoke to Amanda who also had no idea and asked to email at communications@archer.org. She will try to locate the appropriate person and forward it to them. Front Office Phone Number: 310.873.7000 Amanda Communication Office communications@archer.org

Buckley: Internship program not mentioned on website. Reaching out to: Abi Basch Upper School Director of Service and 6-12 Experiential Learning Coordinator (818) 783-1610 ext. 562 abasch@buckley.org

Crossroads: Internship program not mentioned on website. Talked to Christina at the main office (310-829-7391). I was directed to Jennifer Gerber who did not answer. I left her a message with our email address to reach out if they were interested. Called Christina back and asked for Jennifer's email. She is the Director of Alumni Relations and does handle student internship placements. I have reached out to her via email as well. Christina Main Office 310-829-7391 Jennifer Gerber Director of Alumni Relations Email: jgerber@xrds.org

Loyola: Sent an email to: JENAVI HERNANDEZ Administrative Assistant, Main Office x1220 jhernandez@loyolahs.edu

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Rabia2219 commented 2 years ago

Discussion points from call with Bonnie on 01/28/22

For the future cohorts:

  1. We should have a UX researcher:

    • Put a together a list of schools, both public and private to reach out to with a list of questions about internship programs (do they have one? why? what is the set up? would they be interested in 'internship in a box', etc)
    • Do an analysis of the situation about internships in LA school areas that we can use to our advantage

  2. It would be a good idea to put together a guide for future PMs on how to research and find future partners for the Internship program

Rabia2219 commented 2 years ago

Update: Heard back from Marlborough:

Hi Rabia,

We don't have a formal internship placement program here at Marlborough, but we do have a lot of girls interested in coding.

Could you tell me about your internship program?

We often have student coders interested in data science projects during the school year.  Would this be helpful for Hack for LA projects, and who should I contact about that?

Thanks!
Darren / Dr. Kessner

Darren Kessner, Ph.D.
Mathematics and Computer Science Instructor
STEM+ Program Co-Head
he | him | his
http://stem.marlborough.org

I need to write back with an appropriate description of our internship program and also ask about their Community Service Dept/Head.

Draft of my reply: Our internship programs gives students the opportunity to work on open source, real world tech projects in the areas of (from Onesheet).

We welcome volunteers to work on our projects throughout the year and we could look into having students join us and get Community Service Hours for their participation. Does Marlborough have a Community Service Department? I can/have connect/ed you to Bonnie Wolfe, our Executive Director to further discuss this opportunity.

Regards,

Rabia2219 commented 2 years ago

Write back to Darren and mention: Gaby Cohen gabriellecohen20@marlborough.org Food Oasis Will let you know once our Community Service pipeline is formalized. We will reach out to you once this summer gets under way about partnering for next summer.

Rabia2219 commented 2 years ago

Write back to Darren and mention: Gaby Cohen gabriellecohen20@marlborough.org Food Oasis Will let you know once our Community Service pipeline is formalized. We will reach out to you once this summer gets under way about partnering for next summer.

Done.

Rabia2219 commented 2 years ago

Received an out-of-office auto reply from Abi at Buckley.

Rabia2219 commented 2 years ago

Update on Marlborough: Regina from Marlborough reached out to ask if we could include at least one student this summer. It is a tentative yes. The student will need to go through the whole application and interview process and we will open up a new spot.

Update on Crossroads: Rachael from Crossroads reached out and had a conversation with Bonnie. They do have an internship placement program in place. Reached out to her today asking about their decision.

Rabia2219 commented 2 years ago

Received application from the Marlborough student. Waiting to receive applications from Crossroads. Paused reaching out to schools. Will resume if needed and ask Emily from Brentwood for help in doing so.

Rabia2219 commented 2 years ago

Update 2022-03-18:

Bonnie had a meeting with Emily and Flor about help with reaching out to other schools.

Emailed Rachael from Xroads informing her that we are still accepting new applications till EOD Sunday, April 3rd.

ExperimentsInHonesty commented 2 years ago

@ rabia I Spoke to Emily, she recommended Kwaisi France at Harvard Westlake, Director of HW Works https://www.hw.com/about/Faculty-Staff-Directory/individual/807d183d-b88e-47f4-b896-de4838434fa5

Robin Rickett rpickett@windwardschool.org https://www.windwardschool.org/student-life/windward-network - this is their internship page

Rabia2219 commented 2 years ago

Update:

Rabia2219 commented 2 years ago

Xrds is on Spring Break. Drafting this email and will send it out on April 22nd:

Hi Rachael,

I hope you had a wonderful Spring Break. 

Now back to business! We would like to know the dates for when Xrds expects:

1. To notify students about which internships they have been selected for
2. The students must confirm their participation in an internship

We will be sending out our first batch of acceptance letters on April 13th and expect confirmation from students in that batch no later than April 29th. Having these dates from Xrds will help us plan our coming weeks.

Best,
Rabia
Rabia2219 commented 2 years ago

Although there was a positive response from Crossroads, the school did not participate in the IS22 cohort as no students applied for our program. Buckley, Archer and Loyola did not show an interest.