Open Source Internships

2025
CodeDay + Washington State SBCTC
https://www.codeday.org/; https://www.sbctc.edu/
WashingtonTyler Menezes
Experiential Learning, Flexibility, Employer Partnerships and Collaborations
CCB programs often lack the “brand recognition” of large R1 universities, which makes it hard for CCB students to find internships. Additionally, many CCB students aren’t able to participate in internships because they are a primary caretaker or work part-time jobs to pay for school. These students graduate without many critical workplace skills and with limited experience to put on their resume.

This practice has CCB students studying computer science (and related fields) contribute to open source software projects under the joint supervision of CodeDay and partner company software engineers. These projects are collaborative initiatives in which an application’s source code is made freely available online, and the published invites contributions from software engineers at many companies. Most computer software today is either itself open source (such as Google’s Android OS) or based on open source.

Students can participate in open source internships as part of a class capstone, as a short-term extracurricular activity (micro-internship) or an intensive summer experience (akin to a traditional internship).
Internships