BUILD UConn Spring Internship Program

BUILD the UConn you want to see! The Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation is offering an exciting opportunity to create solutions to problems in academia today. The challenge will provide participants with an entrepreneurial “tool belt” and pathway to critically think about and design interventions to improve the education experience. There are four teams each looking for three students– First Year Experience, Career Development, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and Curriculum & Instruction.

Students engaging with Build UConn will –

  • Apply to one of the four teams
  • Earn internship credit
  • Use the Design Thinking Process
  • Create solutions to current UConn problems

Application Process

1. Apply to ONE of the teams

2. Submit Resume

3. Submit a creative deliverable which includes:

  • Your initial ideas to the challenges
  • The value you would bring to the team

Applications are due 1/27/21. For more info and to apply visit: BUILD UConn

By Tara Malone
Tara Malone Associate Director, Regional Campuses Pronouns: she/her/hers