Senior Project

The Senior Project is an internship program that began in the spring of 2004 with the goal of helping our Seniors apply their education, experience, and problem-solving skills in a real-world work environment. Students can choose to spend the last 4 weeks of their senior year immersed in a professional environment with the support of a site supervisor and SAAS faculty advisor.

Students participate in a variety of projects including hands-on technology work, research, engineering, presentation development, they build things, they help businesses organize and transform systems, or they can develop a social media program, among other duties that benefit the business/organization. Students are immersed in a professional environment where they can apply the skills they’ve acquired at SAAS in a real-world professional work environment. They get to do all of this while still benefiting from the support of SAAS mentors.

Organization’s typically host the student(s) four days per week, Monday - Thursday, and students are back on campus on Fridays. They work no more than 25 hours per week either in-person, remotely for the month of May.

Seniors want to do a good job, and for some, this might be their first job experience. Some students need more support than others when it comes to managing time and the project work.  We communicate with organizations to make sure that the site supervisor is clear about expectations and provides adequate feedback to students.