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Sprinternship™

About Sprinternship™
These quick and immersive paid internships give you work experience and a tech-industry résumé credential that can help you land your first summer tech internship.
Duration
3 Weeks
Applications are closed now and will reopen in Summer 2023.
Program Participants

Sprinternships™ are focused on women, nonbinary individuals, and other underrepresented groups who are current first- or second-year students at George Mason University or the University of Maryland.

Additional Info

Everyone knows that you need real-world experience to get that first job. Break Through Tech DC’s Sprinternship™ program provides that.

Launched in DC in 2022, we partner with employers to provide students with a paid, three-week, micro-internship during an academic recess.

Three transformative weeks.

Sprinternships™ are designed by the organizations that host them, so each experience is unique. All Sprinternships™ enable students to:

  • Tackle a real business challenge while immersed in your host company’s culture.
  • Strengthen your professional network and connections in the tech community.
  • Gain a resume credential and the real-world experience you need to land a summer tech internship.

School-Specific Program Information

Sprinternships™ at UMD

Application Information

Sprinternships™ at UMD will be in January 2024. Applications closed.

Partner Institution

UMD Eligibility:

  • First- or second-year degree-seeking undergraduates at UMD in fall 2023 or part of the Freshman Connection program
  • Good academic standing and/or did not receive an Early Warning notification (min: 2.5 cumulative GPA)
  • Currently or previously enrolled in a computing course or received equivalent credit:
    • CMSC 106, 122, 125,131 or higher
    • INST 123 or higher
    • IMDM 127 or higher
    • ENME202 or higher
  • Eligible to work in the United States in January 2024, including at UMD
  • Must be 18 years of age or older by November 4, 2023
  • Focus on women and nonbinary students and other underrepresented groups in tech, but all students are welcome to apply
  • Able to work a standard 40-hour workweek for the duration of the Sprinternship™ (no other classes or employment)
  • Priority given to students who participated in Guild or other Break Through Tech programming

Key Workshop Dates TBD

Sprinternships™ at Mason

Application Information

Sprinternships™ at Mason will be in May 2024. Applications closed.

Partner Institution

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Mason Eligibility:

First-, second-, or third-year degree-seeking student at Mason (including students currently on the NOVA Advance pathways)

    • Good academic standing (min: 2.0 cumulative GPA)
    • Enrolled in at least one course at GMU/NOVA during the fall 2022 semester
    • Completed (received a grade of C or better) any one of the following courses:
      • At GMU: CS 112, CS 211, IT 106, IT 206, IT 109, or IT 209
      • At NOVA: CSC 201, CSC 222, CSC 202, or CSC 223
      • Transferred credit for any of the above courses at GMU will be considered
    • Living in the United States in May 2024
    • 18+ years of age by November 1, 2023
    • Focus on women, nonbinary, and gender fluid students, and other underrepresented groups in tech but all students are welcome to apply.

Key Workshop Dates TBD

"I realized that I loved working in the tech space—my Sprinternship brought me clarity on what I want the next four years of my life to look like.”

Veda Singireddy she/her
University of Maryland computer science student, Break Through Tech DC
Learn her story

Nationwide

100+
More than 100 employer partners have hosted over 1,350 Sprinterns in DC, New York City, and Chicago.

Nationwide Employer Partners

DC Partners

  • American Rivers
  • Booz Allen Hamilton
  • Capitol Interactive
  • Cloudforce
  • Crown Castle
  • Easy Dynamics
  • Goodshuffle
  • KPMG
  • Mastercard
  • Microsoft
  • MyCyberExec
  • National Association of Corporate Directors
  • Two Six Technologies
  • UMD Department of Computer Science
  • UMD Dining Services
  • UMD Division of Information Technology Security
  • Verizon

National Partners

  • AbbVie
  • Accenture
  • AccuWeather
  • ActionIQ
  • Adams Street Partners
  • Aetna
  • Analytical Flavor Systems
  • Anthem
  • Aon
  • AppNexus, a Xandr Company
  • ASAPP Inc.
  • Averon
  • Barclays
  • Bitly
  • BlackRock
  • Blackstone
  • Bloomberg LP
  • Christopher B. Burke Engineering
  • Cisco Systems
  • Citigroup
  • CLEAR
  • Cognizant
  • Company Ventures
  • Cornell Tech K-12 CS
  • Credit Suisse
  • CVS Health
  • Deloitte

  • Dow Jones
  • eBay
  • Etsy
  • Exiger
  • Fiera Capital Inc.
  • General Assembly
  • Girl Scouts
  • Group Nine Media
  • Hospital for Special Surgery
  • IBM
  • Intersection
  • JPMorgan Chase
  • Kargo
  • Kavi Global
  • LinkedIn
  • Littelfuse
  • Moody's
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Morningstar, Inc.
  • Mount Sinai Health System
  • New Lab
  • New York Cares
  • Numina
  • nvisia
  • NYC First

  • Oppenheimer Funds
  • Optum
  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
  • PEAK6
  • Peloton Interactive, Inc.
  • Pfizer
  • Ready Set Rocket
  • RubiconMD
  • RWJBarnabas Health
  • Society of Women Coders
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation
  • Teachers Pay Teachers
  • Teladoc Health
  • The HOPE Program
  • The New York Foundling
  • The Student Leadership Network
  • UI Health
  • UNICC
  • Union Settlement
  • United Way of New York City
  • URBAN-X
  • U.S. Soccer Foundation
  • Warby Parker
  • WebMD
  • William Blair & Company