A micro-internship program compresses a school year's thousand hours into 30 carefully designed ones. Students work on real client projects, get pushed into slightly uncomfortable situations, and reflect on their work to build concrete skills they can show colleges and employers.
I was stepping back to reflect because we have 30 hours for our micro internship. That's typically what we spend in an average school year. For a high schooler, it's about a thousand plus hours. I bet you if you ask an average high schooler, they do not remember anything about most of those hours. And our goal is completely the opposite. We want every one of our 30 hours to be high impact students, sticky, memorable. And that's oftentimes where the deepest learning comes from. It's like context rich, it's unique, it's something they, they're slightly uncomfortable, but we also work super hard to support them to get through that so that on the other side, they're reflecting exactly what you had mentioned, Michael. Like, they're able to say, not just like, oh, I worked on some project, instead they're able to say I supported a client to figure out how they're going to reach more customers in this for this new product. And I was able to actually take in this really tough client feedback and do a 180 and come up with a new presentation by the end. And I was really proud of myself for being able to do that. So, like, that's the kind of thing that students, that we're really seeking, that students can talk about their own competencies, whether that's to a future employer on a college app or even frankly, just to say it to themselves, right? To feel like they have that sense of personal power and sense of agency as a working, working professor.
