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Bright Minds Internship Program 2007

The Bright Minds Internship program was launched in the summer of 2005 targeting academically brilliant juniors and seniors of the twenty one school districts within the college district.

The program has been offered to the top five of the winners of the Academic Challenge competition offered at the Galesburg and Carthage Campuses in March of every year. The Academic Challenge is sponsored by Carl Sandburg College and the Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE) Organization and covers seven academic categories namely, Mathematics, Chemistry, English, Physics, Biology, Engineering Graphics and Computer Science.

Last year the students were involved in an "Information Research" project on the topic of Biotechnology. The project culminated in a fifteen-minute presentation to the Carl Sandburg College Board of Trustees at their regular Board Meeting in Carthage, IL on July 27, 2006.

This year, the program will focus on the topic of "Logistics and Supply Chain Management". The team is made of three students from the K-12 school districts, and one student from Carl Sandburg College. The four students will work as a team on a project and will present their work to the College Board of Trustees at their regular Board meeting at the Carthage Branch Campus on July 26th, 2007.

The Internship will start on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 and end on Tuesday, July 17th, 2007 and will involve the students spending one day a week at Carl Sandburg College campus in Galesburg and the rest of the days working at home or at a nearby CSC campus. During this time, they will go on field visits, conduct interviews, and do research on Logistics and Supply Chain topic.

The program is hosted by Samuel Sudhakar, vice president of technology services and Dr. Ken Grodjesk, education instructor at Carl Sandburg College.

Students will also maintain a daily journal and communicate with group members via a Blog.

Following are some of the benefits for the students:

  1. Gaining knowledge in a cutting edge field and an excellent experience.
  2. Field visits and opportunity to meet pioneers and leaders in the field
  3. A certificate of merit and a letter of recommendation from the President of Carl Sandburg College.
  4. Temporary use of a laptop and broadband Internet access
  5. Stipend - $100/week

Students will be spending every Tuesday from 9:00 a.m. until Noon at the College for the four weeks.

Scheduled Field Visits:

DCM Trucking Galesburg - Tuesday, July 3rd -- Meet @ CSC Circle Drive at 8:30 am

UPS Galesburg

Caterpillar, Peoria -- Friday, July 13th -- Meet @ CSC Circle Drive at 8:00 am

UPS, Chicago

 

Mr. Samuel Sudhakar
Vice President of Technology Services
Carl Sandburg College
2400 Tom L. Wilson Blvd.
Galesburg, IL 61401.
(309) 341-5297
ssudhakar@sandburg.edu