internship

DMACC Boone student selected as NASA summer intern

DMACC Boone Campus student Pedro Salazar of Des Moines has been selected as a summer 2020 NASA internship recipient. Salazar, a 2015 graduate of East High School, was recently chosen to participate in the NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, Calif., and in fall 2019 worked for 12 weeks at the NASA Lucy Student Pipeline Accelerator and Competency Enabler (L’SPACE) Virtual Academy. In his summer internship, Salazar will be

ICR Future Coalition launches job shadow/internship campaign

The ICR Future Coalition is launching a new campaign to create 650 new high school job shadow and internship opportunities in the Iowa City-Cedar Rapids region (ICR) by the end of 2020, reports the Corridor Business Journal. The campaign is one of the coalition’s core goals towards building the future workforce in the ICR region. Employers interested in offering new or expanded high school internship or job shadow opportunities are

Iowa STEM internship funds open applications for participating companies

The Iowa Economic Development Authority is accepting company applications for the Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Internship program, which will award companies grants up to $50,000 per employer, with the goal of transitioning interns to full-time employment in Iowa after graduation. For every two dollars of wages earned by the student intern, one dollar paid by the employer is matched by one dollar from the IEDA, up to $5,000