45 UMD students will work with companies for micro-internship program.
The University of Maryland Computing Catalyst partners with Break Through Tech to deliver Sprinternships™ in the D.C. Metro area. This year, the Computing Catalyst is collaborating with 11 organizations to host micro-internships for 45 UMD undergraduate students.
This January, these Sprinterns will spend three weeks tackling real business challenges while immersed in their host companies’ culture. Employers are gaining access to emerging tech talent while advancing the Catalyst's mission. Meanwhile, student participants build their resumes and networks to become more competitive job and internship applicants.
“We are so excited to have these 11 host organizations for our fifth cohort of Sprinternship,” said Caitlin Rudy, program manager for industry partnerships in the Computing Catalyst. “By hosting our students, they are making a clear commitment to our inclusive computing community. The depth and breadth of projects are so impressive year after year, and I am looking forward to seeing the final project presentations at the end of January.”
Eight of this year’s Sprinternship hosts (with asterisks below) are returning after participating in previous years of the program.
Easy Dynamics* – Sprinterns will focus on architecture documents in the Education unit, leveraging GitHub for version control.
Exiger* – Sprinterns will help map real-world supplier networks using data, research, and technology to uncover hidden connections that reveal how everyday products reach consumers.
Flywheel Digital – Sprinterns will work on a project with the digital commerce platform's artificial intelligence team.
Intergenerational DetectAIves – Sprinterns will learn about generative artificial intelligence alongside older adults from the Prince George's County community. Then, they will propose, produce and publish a demystifying GenAI project.
KPMG* – Sprinterns will develop a data-driven solution that empowers the customer success team of a digital product company to enhance client engagement and retention for their subscription-based product(s).
MTech Ventures* – Sprinterns will develop a full-stack system that ingests interview documents, extracts relevant information, and processes it using a Large Language Model to find actionable insights and analyze key points. This system will include an intuitive user interface for viewing analysis results and exporting summaries.
Ticketmaster* – Sprinterns will build a website that sells tickets, gaining experience with cloud development, deployment, pipelines, full-stack, and front-end development.
University of Maryland Career Center – Sprinterns will support the University Career Center campus-wide data report, including data analysis and visualization with Python, Tableau, and Power BI.
University of Maryland Libraries* – Sprinterns will work with the in-house scrum team at UMD Libraries to design and build a replacement IP Manager web application using Python and Django.
Find more information about the Computing Catalyst's 2026 Sprinternship cohort.
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