Micro-Experiences and Micro-Internships
Micro-experiences and micro-internships are short-term, (often) paid, professional assignments that are similar to those given to new hires or interns. These projects enable you to demonstrate skills, explore career paths and build your network as you seek the right full-time role.
- Parker Dewey Micro-internships: Micro-Internships with Parker Dewey are short-term, paid, professional projects open to all college students and recent graduates of U.S.-based institutions. From working directly with an entrepreneur to supporting a large enterprise, you’ll have the opportunity to explore different roles and company cultures as you gain valuable experience.
- MindSumo: MindSumo helps employers crowdsource breakthrough ideas quickly and affordably with help from creative problem solvers. You can sign up to be a “problem solver” and build skills while getting paid.
- The Forage: Provides bite-sized 5-6 hour virtual work experience programs that give students a genuine career advantage with Fortune 500 companies.
Hackathons and Game Jams
Hackathon: Sprint-like design event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development, including graphic designers, interface designers, product managers, project managers, domain experts and others collaborate intensively on software projects.
- HackTX: UT Hackathon run by students for students
- Major League Hacking: Official Student Hackathon League
- Hackathon.com: Database of online and local hackathons
- Game Jams on Itch.io: Accelerated opportunistic game creation event where a game is created in a relatively short timeframe using given design constraint(s) and end results are shared publicly.
Case Competitions
Case competitions can play a role in highlighting the many skills involved in case writing, teaching and learning. They can benefit faculty, researchers and students and offer the opportunity to showcase expertise at business schools and universities.
- UT Actuarial Case Competition: Find upcoming competitions for Actuarial Science Majors.
- The Case Centre: Database of case competitions for a variety of fields.