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.  (Interns have made formal presentations at MIT and at education conferences in Mexico and France.)
2. Mentor new students.  (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. (Interns have enrolled at Yale, MIT, Harvard, Dartmouth, Choate and Phillips Andover.)

Our interns have come from Massachusetts, Virginia, Nebraska 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 have opportunities to exercise multi-discipline skills including:  product and market definition, user interface design, system architecture, programming in several languages, 3D graphics, 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 relating to Invention Universe include:

1. HTML, CSS 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.  

We encourage interns to do work outside of our meetings but we do not enforce homework assignments.  Any extra work interns may do is voluntary.

Tuition:
$1,500 - annual tuition for the Build-It-Yourself intern program 

Intern Agreement Word Doc

Intern Program PowerPoint Presentation

We will send an email agreement to you.

Please send a tuition 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.