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Sprinternship™

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.

Program Participants

Sprinternships™ are focused on women, nonbinary individuals, and other underrepresented groups who are current first- or second-year students at 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.

Sprinternships™ at UMD

Application Information

Applications are closed.

Partner Institution

First- or second-year degree-seeking undergraduates at UMD in Fall 2024 or part of the Freshman Connection program
Minimum 2.5 cumulative GPA (for continuing students)
Do not receive an early warning grade in fall 2024 computing class(es) (for first-semester students)
Currently or previously enrolled in at least one (preferably two) computing course(s) (or have received equivalent AP or transfer credit): BMGT 302, CMSC 106, 122, 125, 131 or higher, INST 123, 126 or higher, IMDM 127 or higher, ENME 202 or higher, GEOG 276 or higher, or PHYS 265
Eligible to work in the United States in January 2025, including at UMD
Must reside in the United States in January 2025
Must be 18 years of age or older by November 4, 2024
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
Have not previously had a computing internship, Sprinternship, or job

"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

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