Virtual Internships

Find Your Best Future.

Home
Elevate
Virtual Internships

How Does 1 + 1 = Infinity?

When you combine your world-class Illinois Tech education with real-world, experiential learning opportunities, you open up an infinite number of career possibilities.

Elevate Virtual Internships

Illinois Tech's one-of-a-kind Elevate program ensures you will have the confidence to land a great job. Begin your journey before stepping on campus by taking part in a four-week online internship, where you will learn and apply hands-on skills needed to lead and innovate in today's workplace.

High school and college students, graduates, professionals—all can join our specialized courses and build teamwork, creativity, design thinking, and problem-solving skills. The Excelerate platform ensures you can easily explore and sign up for opportunities that appeal to you. A virtual internship offers you the gateway to explore, collaborate, solve problems, and lead!

VIEW INTERNSHIPs on EXCELERATE

$1,000 Edge Award

What more can you gain from Elevate virtual internships besides valuable real-world experience and valuable twenty-first century skills? A $1,000 award that can jump-start your future at Illinois Tech. The Edge Award is open to high school students who enroll at Illinois Tech.

Take a Virtual Internship and Earn a $1,000 Edge Award

Illinois Tech is offering a $1,000 Edge Award to incoming undergraduate students to help you fund your Illinois Tech education. You can earn an Edge Award by completing a virtual internship prior to enrolling at Illinois Tech (Bonus: Edge Awards are stackable—earn up to five). Learn more about Edge Awards.

In addition, rising 9th–12th graders may use their Edge Award for any Elevate College Prep experience, including summer programs!

How do I apply for a virtual internship?

Virtual internships are available to nominated students from participating partner high schools. If you’re interested in bringing a virtual internship to your high school, please contact Fareine Suarez at fsuarez1@iit.edu.

Go to the Illinois Tech profile on Excelerate
Click on the “Sign Up” button
Enter your details and verify your email
Login to the platform and apply for the virtual internship under “Global Internships”

Watch this video to learn how to sign up

I got to learn a lot about the defensive hacking in terms of cybersecurity. I come from a background in mechanical engineering, so this was something completely new for me. I learned a lot, and I'm glad I embarked on this journey.

—Maryam Yasin, Cybersecurity and Defensive Hacking

I didn't just learn about cybersecurity. I worked and carried out assignments and tasks with many of the tools of cybersecurity. There were times when tasks were daunting, difficult, and really challenging, but with every task completed and success recorded, I grew in the knowledge of my field—and my confidence.

—Utobo Ederenna, Cybersecurity and Defensive Hacking

I have gained some very crucial skills in analyzing data. I learned to be a responsible part of my team. I am sure, in the future, I'll be able to deal with a larger set of data with higher efficiency.

—Rewa Deshpande, Data Visualization

Your Benefits of the Virtual Internship

Employability Skills

Communication, collaboration, self-management, problem solving

Global Exposure

Network with students and subject matter experts from around the world

Professional Development

Report writing, business etiquette, and presentation skills

Personal Growth

Self-awareness to be able to identify strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots of your professional personality

Your Virtual Internship Schedule

Virtual internships start the first week of every month and can be found on Excelerate
Four-week program requiring 5 to 6 hours of commitment per week
Internship structure:
- Week 1: Introduction and overview to the internship and project team. Review of sponsor’s data and business problem.
- Week 2: Uncovering the challenge question and collecting further information. Professional and personal skills development.
- Week 3: Conducting relevant research and creating a preliminary analysis. Preparing a draft report on the proposed solutions.
- Week 4: Group presentation on findings and recommendations for challenge questions. Reflective video on internship journey.

Virtual Internship Topic Tracks

Explore programs that will spark your journey to success.

Internship Topic Track	Internship Role	Task	Learning Outcomes
Digital Marketing	Social Media Analyst	Analyze GlobalShala’s social media presence and devise newer methods to improve audience interaction.	Learn the best practices and proven strategies for digital marketing and communications
Entrepreneurship and Innovation	Innovative Entrepreneur	Identify a new product/ business to launch and the steps needed to make it a reality for a startup.	Learn how to ask the right questions, experiment with ideas, apply analytical thinking, and work effectively in teams.
Data Visualization	Data Analyst	Analyze data from GlobalShala’s marketing team on ad campaigns in order to generate actionable reports for future campaigns.	Learn how to effectively analyze data using data visualizations and to improve the look of presentations and data visualizations based on best practices in design.
Project Management	Project Manager	Create a project plan that GlobalShala will use to plan, organize, and execute a global competition.	Learn how to create and manage a project team; develop a team charter, project schedule, and project scope while also dealing with crisis situations in projects.
Esports and Game Design	Content Creator	Create a highlight video showcasing game play that will be used for promotion, positioning, and profitability.	Learn from industry experts how to create effective streaming accounts, how to create videos with special effects, and how to analyze the market response to those videos and maximize views.
Cybersecurity and Defensive Hacking	Defense Hacker	Set up a virtualization environment for threat assessments testing and understanding different attack vectors. Learn methods for mitigation of risk.	Learn and practice hands-on defensive hacking techniques while in a lab environment. Understand the concept of “blue teams,” different attack vectors, brute force, denial of service, scans, backdoor attacks, and others.

apply for internships on EXCELERATE