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Spartan spotlight stories
Alyssa Dalicandro
June 29, 2023

Dalicandro is utilizing internship opportunities as a way to explore different workplace settings and accounting roles. By the start of her sophomore year, she had already completed two internships. Why did you decide to complete multiple internships? Taking internships at various organizations...

Meet Tony
June 13, 2023

“As an athletic training 3+2 student, I’ll be completing the bachelor’s degree coursework in three years and a master’s in two, so the Junior Mentoring Program has been an important tool to ensure I stay on track. Junior Mentoring provided me with a faculty...

Courtney Rickard
June 1, 2023

Rickard spent summer 2022 interning for Orange County Coastkeeper, a nonprofit, clean-water organization in Southern California. What did you do? I worked as a marine restoration intern and helped facilitate our “living shorelines” project. We created an eelgrass and oyster...

McKyley Cherry
May 4, 2023

Cherry completed a remote software engineering internship with Avanade, a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft, serving as a back-end developer. How did your internship help prepare you for your future? Interning allowed me to test drive a potential career path, connect with industry...

Marco Antonio Olivera
April 5, 2023

Olivera returned to his hometown to serve as a mentor in Beloit College’s Help Yourself Program, which helps prepare low-income, first-generation minority students go to college. How did you secure your internship? I learned about my internship opportunity because I participated in the...