Real-world projects that get you hired

During this Externship, externs will:

• Ingest and parse scanned documents
• Extract and structure key data fields from multiple document types
• Implement intelligent search using RAG pipelines and metadata filters
• Build and test modular routing and classification logic
• (Optional) Deploy a lightweight user interface for search and querying

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Technologies used:

• Python (scripting, data processing)
• PyMuPDF, pdfplumber (PDF parsing)
• OpenCV, PIL (image preprocessing)
• OCR Engines: Tesseract, PaddleOCR, EasyOCR
• Vector Search: LlamaIndex, FAISS, Chroma
• LLMs: Gemini API or open-source models (e.g., Mistral, Phi-2)
• UI Tools: Streamlit, Gradio (optional)

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Final project outputs:

• Python pipeline to process document files
• Structured JSON output with field-level data and coordinates
• Functional RAG pipeline (Gemini or open-source)
• Searchable UI using Streamlit or Gradio
• Final report, system documentation, and demo

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Why should you care? Here’s what you’ll get out of this Externship:

• Develop a portfolio-worthy AI/ML project
• Gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge tools and models
• Learn to build robust, production-level systems
• Improve data parsing, extraction, and visualization skills
• Tackle a real-world, high-impact business use case

Deliver a client-ready pitch deck that showcases your Instagram designs, campaign strategy, and brand voice systems:

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1) Discover How Brands Build Trust Online: Map personas, define archetypes, and design mood boards to visualize All Basics Uniform’s voice.

2) Shape the Brand’s Instagram Personality: Create a visual identity system with Canva templates, grids, highlight packs, and caption frameworks.

3) Figure Out What Makes Content Go Viral: Compare Instagram and TikTok algorithms, track analytics, and reflect on growth insights.

4) Plan a Creative Social Media Campaign: Design a cross-platform campaign plan with content calendars, KPIs, and iteration strategies for Instagram and TikTok.

5) Pitch Your Brand Playbook: Synthesize all work into a client-ready deck and present your Brand Voice & Content Playbook with Instagram + TikTok assets.

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Present and communicate your investment thesis to an investment committee.

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1. Financial Statements Analysis: Analyze SEC filings and company financial reports to determine financial health and identify key risks.
2. Macroeconomic & Industry Trends: Investigate macroeconomic conditions and industry-specific trends influencing stock market performance.
3. Risk & Catalyst Identification: Identify potential risks and market catalysts that could impact company valuations and stock performance.
4. Trading Activity & Analyst Ratings: Review insider transactions and analyst ratings to gauge investor confidence and market sentiment around the company.
5. Financial Model Development: Construct robust valuation models to forecast financial performance and price targets.
6. Investment Memo & Presentation: Prepare professional, detailed investment memos and present recommendations clearly to stakeholders.

This externship places students in the role of cybersecurity engineers protecting IoT pipelines. You will deliver the following:

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- AI-driven anomaly detection prototype for identifying suspicious device behavior;

- A structured security review of IoT pipelines;

- Practical playbooks and runbooks adapted for engineering teams;

- Design recommendations for securing critical water shutoff controls;

- A mock incident response report highlighting risks and mitigations.

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Tools you'll be learning and using:

- Python

- Mosquitto (MQTT Broker)

- Streamlit

By the end you will deliver a Security Improvement Report to Hydroficient that provides them risk insights, documentation, and design recommendations that better protect their systems. Through this, you gain practical, portfolio-ready cybersecurity and AI skills.

Externs will analyze publicly available reviews and testimonials from Amazon Fulfillment Center employees (via Glassdoor, Indeed, Reddit, and YouTube) to identify common workplace pain points—such as communication gaps, lack of recognition, or burnout. 

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After identifying a key theme, each extern will select a key employee persona and explore how that issue uniquely affects them. You'll thendesign a persona-specific solution that a team leader could use to improve the associate experience.

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• User insight synthesis
• Qualitative analysis and data-backed storytelling
• Operational problem framing
• Business-ready recommendation design
• Presentation to Amazon

Present your dashboards and synthesis of insights to the senior leaders at Beats by Dre via a presentation. 

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You will analyze the consumer journey of Beats customers, analyze survey data, perform sentiment analysis, and visualize findings using AI tools. By the end, you will synthesize their insights into presentations and dashboards, effectively communicating data-driven conclusions in professional formats.

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By the end of this Externship, externs will have created:

• Google Colab Notebook
• Gamma Presentation
• Claude Artifact Dashboard

Design and prototype a feature aimed at boosting BeReal's monthly active users metric (MAUs). Demo and present to BeReal leadership at the end of the externship.

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Project deliverables include:

1) A visual representation of BeReal’s user behavior pattern highlighting common usage habits, motivations, and frustrations of BeReal users

2) A competitor analysis matrix highlighting engagement-driving features and gaps

3) Prototype Flow Map (photo or text storyboard) and Prototype Link (+ README with click path)

4) Focus group test summary report

5) Final feature proposal deck (5–7 slides) presenting the feature, supporting evidence, and rollout plan

During the course of the externship, externs will:

• Analyze how case management workflows influence patient experience, continuity of care, and risk across inpatient, emergency, and post-discharge contexts.
• Identify process gaps, blind spots, and unaccounted risks by applying root cause analysis to real care coordination scenarios.
• Map real-world case management workflows to reveal hidden work, handoffs, delays, and intervention points.
• Quantify coordination work by defining operational metrics and prototyping a dashboard that communicates workload, risk mitigation, and value.
  
  

By the end of the externship, externs will have created a:

• Stakeholder map and scope-of-practice summary clarifying the case manager’s role in patient-centered care coordination.
• Workflow risk and root-cause analysis table highlighting gaps, risks, and invisible coordination work.
• Process maps and visual flowcharts showing how case management work actually unfolds across follow-up, default management, and escalation.
• Work-quantification dashboard prototype that translates coordination activities into measurable, communicable operational value.

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Tools being used: Claude, Perplexity, Gamma

Design and create a professional-grade Canva demo asset that Enterprise Teams at Canva will use as Sales & Marketing collateral to demonstrate the power of Canva against other data visualization tools in the growing competitive landscape of tools. Top projects will be showcased publicly, showing employers your design, storytelling, and data capabilities.