Carnegie Mellon University

Information for Students

"I came out of the internship more confident in the kind of future I want to lead once college is over. I am and always will be grateful for my first, and most unique, internship experience and all that I will take from it." – Elizabeth Rodriguez, ‘23

The Pittsburgh Summer Internship Program (PSIP) provides financial support and resources to connect Dietrich College undergraduate students to their first internship experience at a non-profit, start-up or small business in the Pittsburgh area. The program is designed to support students who have limited professional experience by providing assistance with the application process, ongoing career workshops and host sites that offer direct mentorship and supervision. 

Students who participate complete 175-200 hours of work at an organization in the Pittsburgh area and receive a $3,300 stipend. 

Eligibility

The program is open to any undergraduate student with a primary major or BHA concentration in Dietrich College. Students from any class level are eligible to apply, but preference is given to students who have not yet had a meaningful internship experience. 

Past program participants are not eligible to apply. Past participants include those who completed an internship through the program or declined an internship offer. Students who were not accepted or were accepted but did not receive offers are still eligible to apply.

Application Process

Student applications for PSIP are open until Feb. 7, 2025. Apply here!

If you have any questions, please reach out to Bryce Yoder, experiential learning coordinator, at DietrichExperiential@andrew.5054k.com.

Past & Anticipated Internship Opportunities

The projects listed below represent an idea of opportunities for the intern at the site, not everything they will be expected to do. Interns and host sites are encouraged to be flexible in identifying projects that align with professional goals and organizational mission. This list may change and more opportunities may be added.

 

African American Leadership Foundation

Project Coordinator Intern
  • Information Systems: database management, website maintenance, design and functionality
  • Event Planning: large scale event management, event evaluation and reporting
  • Community engagement: outreach efforts, collaborate with educators on school programs

Alliance for Refugee Youth Support and Education - ARYSE

Program Assistant for PRYSE Academy
  • Data science related: collect, analyze and communicate data from summer program
  • Youth/Education related: assist with 5-week camp for youth with immigrant/migrant backgrounds

Ascender

Funding Connections Intern
  • Consulting: Market research and trends for entrepreneurship to support Ascender clients
  • Technology: Identify ways to use AI and automation to improve business efficiency
  • Data Science: utilize data visualization and design storytelling; utilize search queries from Crunchbase to identify fundraising trends and key players 

 

Assemble PGH

Assemble

Event Planning Intern
  • Event/Project Management: assist with planning large scale event, support recruitment and outreach efforts

Behaivior

Business Development Intern, Outreach Intern, Design and Marketing Intern
  • Marketing related: Market and product strategy, customer/partner outreach
  • Content Creation: Creating and editing videos and animations, blog posts
  • Technology related: implementing and testing SEO and other analytics strategies

Bike Share Pittsburgh

Data Specialist
  • Data science related: analyze and communicate data for a 5-year growth plan

Biomotivate

Addiction Psychology User Experience Interface Design Intern
  • Information systems related: device testing on location, user experience
  • Data science related: analyze data to identify trends and patterns for on-site testing

Bloomfield Garfield Corporation

Greenzone & Public Safety Program Assistant
  • Project management related: volunteer events and coordination, large project oversight, direct community engagement around sustainability initiatives

 

Brothers and Sisters Emerging

Brothers and Sisters Emerging

Information Systems Assistant

  • Information systems: evaluate and assess technological status of organization
  • Develop a system for data collection and documentation
  • Enhance organization's website, social media and email system

Building New Hope

Marketing and Coffee Coordinator Intern
  • Research and Marketing: market research, data entry, communications to help build clientele

Casa San Jose

Information Technology Intern; HR and Accounting Office Aide
  • Organizational management related: organizational assessment of policies and HR metrics
  • Information systems: database management, website design and maintenance
  • Data Science: Data analysis and visualization

Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO)

Center for Employment Opportunities

Communications Associate Intern

  • Business development & writing: creation of a monthly newsletter
  • Development of employer partner portfolios
  • Creation of profiles for potential institutional giving or private funders and accounts for contract partners

Charles Street Area Corporation

Charles Street Area Corporation

Outreach & Community Engagement Coordinator

  • Data analysis: carry out projects to provide insight into efforts to achieve a better quality of life in the Charles Street Valley area
  • Community-engaged projects: contribute to ongoing developments for accessible community assets and building generational wealth

City of Asylum

Public Programming Intern and Marketing & Administrative Intern
  • Project and event management: Full arc of public programming - booking, planning, implementing and evaluating
  • Non-Profit operations: brand marketing, publicity, non-profit management

Community Forge

Community Forge

Technical Intern

  • Project development & program delivery: review and improve process documentation, manufacturing technology, operations and 1-on-1 tech support
  • Web design & marketing: contribute to ongoing branding and online improvements such as logo edits, website or social media updates, posts and event support

Confirmed

Product Design Intern
  • Information systems related: app design, user experience

Davis Consulting Solutions

Data Project Intern
  • Data science related: data management, pattern recognition, data reporting and visualization

Dress for Success

Communication, Marketing, and Events Intern
  • Project and event management: large-scale event, communications

ERIN

Customer Success Operations Intern
  • Data Science: Data analysis, visualization, reporting and storytelling

Grounded Strategies

Grounded Strategies Intern
  • Policy related: Advance and support advocacy around environmental justice and land use
HeadStrait Labs

HeadStrait Labs

Data & Technical Development Intern

  • Data analysis & visualization: process and analyze collected data to create visual reports and dashboards to communicate findings
  • Business development & strategy: assist with stakeholder engagement and relationship management to support fundraising, sales and strategic planning

Hello Neighbor

National Network Intern and Marketing and Development Intern
  • Program growth: research and evaluation of existing nationwide initiatives
  • Information systems: build out and create grants management system, information entry

Honeycomb Credit

Data Analytics Intern
  • Data science related: collect, manage, and analyze investment and small business data from Honeycomb’s crowdfunding platform, and create a centralized dashboard for key metrics.

Industrial Arts Workshop

Summer Welding Bootcamp Student Outcomes Specialist
  • Data science related: data collection, evaluation of participant experience, data analysis

International Poetry Forum

International Poetry Forum

Student Intern

  • Research: conduct research on the history of poetry in Pittsburgh
  • Production: help with developing and producing a podcast series
  • Marketing: assist with outreach and planning for future events

Just Harvest 

Just Harvest

Farmers Market Program Assistant

  • Marketing & support: community outreach and promotional support of Fresh Access and SNAP produce incentives at area farmers markets
  • Data analysis: review transaction records and customer surveys for insights
  • Project development: help implement a new process for gathering and recording proof of city residence for contract compliance

Lifeware Labs

Social Media Manager
  • Content Creation: increase online engagement with potential customers in anticipation of an upcoming FDA clearance for the ProPatch medical device

Macedonia FACE

Senior Center Program Assistant, Family and Community Engagement Services Program Assistant
  • Community engagement related: Event management, outreach and engagement with seniors
  • Education related: Facilitate workshops and events for Hill District Early Literacy Initiative

Multiplying Good Pittsburgh

Community Events and Special Program Intern
  • Project management: program support for Students in Action and ChangeMakers initiatives
  • Nonprofit management related: communications, project management, data and analysis, etc.

Nischal Sports Group

Data Analyst and Match Analyst
  • Data science: data analysis, predictive modeling, data visualization to market clients to potential teams, aid with consulting arm of business

Noma AI

Data Science Intern - Healthcare
  • Machine Learning: evaluate ML models, develop data pipelines, financial value analysis

Oakland Business Improvement District (OBID)

Economic Development Intern and Marketing and Communications Intern
  • Data science: data analysis related to economic development, data visualization
  • Communications: website updates, blog posts, event planning (Summer Music Series)

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens

Environmental Psychology Education Intern
  • Research related: Young children’s knowledge acquisition, review relevant literature, collaborate on developing research methods, and collect data

Pittsburgh Hispanic Development Corporation

Business Analyst Intern
  • Business related: consult with small business owners to create plans, industry research, business acceleration, community reinvestment

Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

Advancement and Development Intern
  • Information systems: evaluation of CRM systems, database entry cleaning, systems improvement
  • Data Science: engage in stewardship initiatives to collect data and survey donors

Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise

Data Intern and Marketing Intern
  • Data Science related: data analytics, compilation and analysis of historical data, data interpretation
  • Marketing related: develop marketing plan/timeline with emphasis on branding and social media

Public Allies 

Public Allies Pittsburgh

Volunteer and Pathways Specialist

  • Programming: research and assist with developing partnerships and resources that enable current program participants and alumni to achieve their educational and career pathway goals
  • Alumni & volunteer engagement: develop consistent processes and messaging to engage alumni and community members

PublicSource

Data Storytelling Intern and Audience Growth Intern
  • Writing related: writing journalistic articles and supporting reporters
  • Data Science related: analyzing publically available data, visualization, fact-checking
  • Marketing and Growth related: support audience growth, search engine optimization, social media

PUMP

PUMP

Pittsburgh Passport Coordinator

  • Programming & events: facilitation and execution of Pittsburgh Passport events, which are designed to provide summer interns, college students and grad students opportunities to explore the city and region

Reading Ready Pittsburgh

Reading Ready Pittsburgh

Project and Funding Coordinator Intern

  • Research & development: Research and install a new Read, Learn, and Play space, in conjunction with partnering community organizations
  • Funding & data: maintain donor database, exporting and organizing the data, drafting a summer appeal letter to funders and coordinating communication

Reclamation Factory

Reclamation Factory

Machine Learning or Data Analysis Intern

  • Data analysis: work data collected during spring plastics recycling projects to structure this data, develop machine learning models to optimize operations and/or develop a user-friendly web app and API to help clients
  • Process development: provide insights to improve data collection for future pilots and potential implementations

Sharpsburg Neighborhood Organization

Sharpsburg Neighborhood Organization

Community Engagement Intern

  • Community-engaged projects: collecting and analyzing community needs through assessments and housing-related data
  • Sustainability & justice: review ecodistrict-related program areas including housing affordability and anti-displacement efforts, green energy innovations, infrastructure and mobility and more

Squirrel Hill Historical Society

Squirrel Hill Historical Society (SHHS)

Historical Researcher

  • Research: contribute to the ongoing research and compliation of historical data about Squirrel Hill, working towards publishing blogs and a potential book
  • Events: contribute to or attend monthly programming on local history and reconstruction of sites such as the Neill Log House

SHzoom Technologies

Data Analyst Intern and Research and Digital Marketing Intern
  • Business related: market research, lead generation, team brainstorming
  • Information systems related: regular system testing, customer technical support, CRM database management

Smart Futures

eLearning Curriculum Builder
  • Content Creation related: animated educational videos and/or interactive web content
  • Youth/Education related: use programming, psychology or writing to build K-12 learning modules

The Children's Home of Pittsburgh

The Children's Home of Pittsburgh

Project Management Intern

  • Marketing & development: assist the team with in-kind donations, planning of events, creation and posting of images on social media, and etnering data into donation platform
  • Data entry & management: contribute to and oversee projects related to Human Resources processes such as ATS systems

The Dragon's Den

The Dragon's Den

Summer Programs Intern

  • Project development: assist in planning and implementing daily summer camp activities, including STEAM projects, arts, sports and educational games; develop and distribute surveys to gather feedback from staff, participants and families on the summer camp experience
  • Program delivery: participate in leading special programs like the "Mindful Young Minds" curriculum, fostering social emotional learning (SEL) and resilience; contribute to a comprehensive end-of-summer report with key findings and actionable recommendations for improving next year's programming

The Equity | Impact Center

Social Impact Intern and Community Outreach Intern
  • Research and data collection: support EIC programming through research and data collection
  • Community engagement related: outreach and relationship building, event planning, grants

The Forbes Funds

Social Impact and Data Intern
  • Data science: creation of data collection tools to measure regional impact, analysis, research

The Japan-America Society of Pennsylvania

Nonprofit Management and Program Analysis Intern
  • Community engagement related: event planning and management

The Legacy Arts Project

The Legacy Arts Project

Dance Africa Intern

  • Fundraising & event coordination: assist the team with a signature summer event, Dance Africa Pittsburgh; work on fundraising and sponsorships, support the organization of the African marketplace, as well as promote and market the event

Trying Together

Data Analyst Intern
  • Data Science related: data collection, cleaning, reporting, validation, dashboard creation

velo.ai

UX/UI Intern and Marketing Intern
  • Technical related: open to machine learning, UX/UI or data analysis intern
  • Business related: assist with business growth and promotion of the first product

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

Web Development Intern

  • Accessibility & web development: fix broken links across the sites, implement aria labels across all hyperlinks, re-structure webpages to meet current accessibility guidelines
  • SEO enhacement: create and implement alt text for images and videos across sites and write meta descriptions

Wilkinsburg Borough

Wilkinsburg Borough

Special Events Coordinator

  • Program delivery: develop an archery program for the summer, including promotions for the program, recuritment of families, etc.
  • Community enagagement: intern will also assist in planning, promotion, execution and post-production follow-up for local concerts and special events

WORK

WORK

Engagement Intern

  • Community engagement: assist with researching community events and fundraising efforts, provide support to our Run Series campaign and more
  • Program delivery & workforce development: contribute to training for our youth and young adults, with a focus on reversing impacts of climate change and cleaning up the environment;  learn about and advocate for policy changes and how to create a workforce that we need for the future

Xpogo, LLC

Xpogo Intern
  • Data science: Analyze sales and financial data, R based data work, CRM
  • Event Management: Event production for Pogopalooza, business strategy, SEO, social media

Youth Enrichment Services

YES Summer Programs Intern
  • Youth/education related: design unique apprenticeships and mentor youth