Advanced Art and Technology Internship

We're looking for a few grade 6-12 advanced students who have demonstrated a passion for art, computers and technology to work with our development team ... primarily MIT and Cornell engineering students and Mass Art design students.

Goal:
Our goal is to put interns in a position to:

1. Make presentations to customers and partners.  (Past interns have made formal presentations at MIT and at education conferences in Mexico.)
2. Mentor new students.  (Past interns have been employed as workshop leaders for Build-It-Yourself.)
3. Use the Build-It-Yourself intern experience in portfolios and applications to college. (Past interns have enrolled at Yale, MIT, Harvard and Dartmouth.)

Our interns have come from Massachusetts, Virginia, California, China, Mexico and Saudi Arabia.  ( Interns and Testimonials )

Skills:
Interns start by developing advanced PowerPoint, HTML, and Scratch programming skills.  Over the course of 12 months, interns will exercise multi-discipline skills including:  product and market definition, user interface design, web site design, program architecture, testing, project management, teamwork, project marketing and the art of presenting  ideas.  

Projects:
We're developing Invention Universe, a Flash/Flex database driven Web application for builders that has elements of YouTube, social networking and the computer game, Spore.   Specific projects include:

1. HTML and PHP Web page design.
2. Flash / Flex applications.
3. MySQL database driven Web applications.
4. PowerPoint project presentations.
5. Scratch games that measure skills.
6. Scratch module database
7. Multimedia content development
8. Robotic electronics and mechanics.

Schedule:
During the school year, interns meet weekly with our development team in our Webcast room for about an hour on Saturday's or Sunday's.   (30+ hours in total)  During the summer, interns are invited to spend a week or more at the Build-It-Yourself lab and/or MIT in Cambridge, MA.  

Tuition:
The tuition for the Build-It-Yourself intern program is $1,500. 

Summary of goals, projects and skills

Please send a check payable to Build-It-Yourself to:
Build-It-Yourself
269 Pearl Street
Cambridge, MA  02139

You are most welcome to attend a few weekend, Webcast meetings or visit our lab before you formally join the intern program.