We celebrate the end of the internship with the Internship Showcase. This is an in person event with over 100 interns from three different internship and professional work experience programs on campus. Interns present from their laptop to guests and visitors that walk around for brief conversations.

More information is available throughout the year and in the ePortfolio Guide.

Presentation

You will present from the Internship page of your ePortfolio. For the showcase, we want you to add/embed an artifact to your Internship page to share the internship work. What does your team do? What do they study or try to understand or change? Was there a particular project or part that you took ownership on and are excited to share? Including this artifact as part of your ePortfolio will help visitors understand more about your work with the context of your reflections on what you did and learned all year. For an example of embedding, view the Internship page of Sparky’s ePortfolio. The images, Youtube video, slides, and Prezi are all embedded on the page.

This is your chance to share the “what” of your internship so be creative! You’ll create at least one artifact to add to your Internship page to share this knowledge. It can be a few slides, a manuscript or other scholarly writing, infographics and images related to your work, a Prezi, or even files you created as part of your internship work such as social media posts or recruitment flyers. You will discuss with your supervisor the appropriate items to share. Do not share data without express permission from your supervisor.

Examples

• Four slides to show off the research: outline the question, your contribution or techniques you used, the initial results or data summary, and what happens next. You could talk about the problem-solving and analysis skills you used and attention to detail needed for data collection.
• A collection of documents to show recruitment for a clinical study: recruitment flyer you created, social media posts to get people to sign up, and the (blank) form with screening questions you asked in phone screens. You could talk about the communication and design skills you used and the challenges of finding people who are qualified for the study.
• Scholarly writing: literature review to understand other research before your supervisor writes a grant proposal or to decide on a new direction for their research. You could talk about what you learned about writing, carefully reading and understanding the research of others, and what they did with the information.

Video of intern presenting his artifact to a visitor at the Internship Showcase.