The Pittsburgh Summer Internship Program (PSIP) provides financial support and resources to connect Dietrich College undergraduate students to their first internship experience at a non-profit, start-up or small business in the Pittsburgh area.
The program is designed to support students who have limited professional experience by providing assistance with the application process, ongoing career workshops and host sites that offer direct mentorship and supervision.
Students who participate complete 175-200 hours of work at an organization in the Pittsburgh area and receive a $3,500 stipend.
Eligibility
The program is open to any undergraduate student with a primary major or BHA concentration in Dietrich College with continuing enrollment in the following fall semester. Students from any class level are eligible to apply, but preference is given to students who have not yet had a meaningful internship experience.
Past program participants are not eligible to apply. Past participants include those who completed an internship through the program or declined an internship offer. Students who were not accepted or were accepted but did not receive offers are still eligible to apply.
Application Process
The application period for PSIP in summer 2026 has closed. Students are encouraged to reach out to the experiential learning team at DietrichExperiential@andrew.cmu.edu to explore other experiential learning opportunities and resources.
Meet Your Peers
"I came out of the internship more confident in the kind of future I want to lead once college is over. I am and always will be grateful for my first, and most unique, internship experience and all that I will take from it."
Elizabeth Rodriguez
Past & Anticipated Internship Opportunities
The projects listed below represent an idea of opportunities for the intern at the site, not everything they will be expected to do. Interns and host sites are encouraged to be flexible in identifying projects that align with professional goals and organizational mission. This list may change and more opportunities may be added.
Ascender
Branding & Operations Intern
- Consulting: Market research and trends for entrepreneurship to support Ascender clients
- Technology: Identify ways to use AI and automation to improve business efficiency
- Data Science: Utilize data visualization and design storytelling; utilize search queries from Crunchbase to identify fundraising trends and key players
Assemble
Events & Marketing Intern
- Event/Project Management: Assist with planning large scale event, support recruitment and outreach efforts
- Operations & Design: Collaborate on graphic design, improving documentation and contribute to long-term projects
Avenu Workspaces & Innovate PGH
Operations & Resource Development Intern
- Collaborative Knowledge Capture: Work with the team to identify gaps in the current documentation, interview staff, and codify best practices
- Platform Research and Migration: Evaluate different platforms for hosting resources and lead the transfer and organization process
Behaivior
Business Development Intern, Outreach Intern, Design and Marketing Intern
- Marketing related: Market and product strategy, customer/partner outreach
- Content Creation: Creating and editing videos and animations, blog posts
- Technology related: implementing and testing SEO and other analytics strategies
Bike Share Pittsburgh
Data Specialist
- Data science related: analyze and communicate data for a 5-year growth plan
Bloomfield Garfield Corporation
Greenzone & Public Safety Program Assistant
- Project management related: volunteer events and coordination, large project oversight, direct community engagement around sustainability initiatives
Brothers and Sisters Emerging
Information Systems Assistant
- Information systems: evaluate and assess technological status of organization
- Develop a system for data collection and documentation
- Enhance organization's website, social media and email system
Building New Hope
Research & Marketing Intern
- Data Collection: Gather and organize data from online databases, surveys and interviews
- Market Analysis: Conduct market research to identify trends, competitors and opportunities in the market
- Event Coordination: assist in organizing and coordinating evens, fundraisers or promotional activities - with plenty of coffee!
Casa San Jose
Information Technology Intern; HR and Accounting Office Aide
- Organizational management related: organizational assessment of policies and HR metrics
- Information systems: database management, website design and maintenance D
- ata Science: Data analysis and visualization
Center for Employment Opportunities
Communications Associate Intern
- Business development & writing: creation of a monthly newsletter
- Development of employer partner portfolios
- Creation of profiles for potential institutional giving or private funders and accounts for contract partners
Chalfant Run-Thompson Run Watershed Association
Web Development Intern
- Web Enhancement: Improve and design new features to optimize user experience
- Interactive Mapping: Develop a GIS-powered interactive map that highlights key resources, including hiking trails, water sampling locations and partner organizations
Charles Street Area Corporation
Outreach & Community Engagement Coordinator
- Data analysis: carry out projects to provide insight into efforts to achieve a better quality of life in the Charles Street Valley area
- Community-engaged projects: contribute to ongoing developments for accessible community assets and building generational wealth
The Children's Home of Pittsburgh
Project Management Intern
- Marketing & development: assist the team with in-kind donations, planning of events, creation and posting of images on social media, and etnering data into donation platform
- Data entry & management: contribute to and oversee projects related to Human Resources processes such as ATS systems
City of Asylum
Public Programming Intern and Marketing & Administrative Intern
- Project and event management: Full arc of public programming - booking, planning, implementing and evaluating
- Non-Profit operations: brand marketing, publicity, non-profit management
Davis Consulting Solutions
Data Management Intern
- Process Improvement: Streamline data workflows and improve the efficiency and reliability of data collection and analysis processes
- Reporting & Visualization: Prepare data summaries to inform decision-making
The Dragon's Den
Summer Programs Intern
- Project development: assist in planning and implementing daily summer camp activities, including STEAM projects, arts, sports and educational games; develop and distribute surveys to gather feedback from staff, participants and families on the summer camp experience
- Program delivery: participate in leading special programs like the "Mindful Young Minds" curriculum, fostering social emotional learning (SEL) and resilience; contribute to a comprehensive end-of-summer report with key findings and actionable recommendations for improving next year's programming
Dress for Success
Communication, Marketing, and Events Intern
- Project and event management: large-scale event, communications
EDM Association
Marketing & Data Analysis Intern
- Marketing Analytics & Reporting: Analyze campaign performance and engagement trends
- Website Analysis & Optimization: Use Google Analytics and conduct audits for SEO improvements
- Data Analysis & Visualization: Interpret marketing and web data to inform strategy
EKTO VR
Software Development & Digital Marketing Intern
- Development: Collaborate on VR GUIs, motion calibration tools, product firmware, etc.
- Operations: Assist in executing marketing plans, templates and designs, and automation for crowdfunding
ERIN
Customer Success Operations Intern
- Data Science: Data analysis, visualization, reporting and storytelling
The Forbes Fund
Social Impact and Data Intern
- Data science: creation of data collection tools to measure regional impact, analysis, research
Hardly
Software Development Intern
- Data & Development: Collaborate on building and testing user features as well as integrating CRM management and data analysis tools
HeadStrait Labs
Data & Technical Development Intern
- Data analysis & visualization: process and analyze collected data to create visual reports and dashboards to communicate findings
- Business development & strategy: assist with stakeholder engagement and relationship management to support fundraising, sales and strategic planning
Healthy Start Inc
Equity & Operations Intern
- Data Analysis & Process Improvement: Create auditing protocols and synthesize data findings into a centralized resource
- Survey & Improvement: Develop satisfaction surveys, with the option of reaching out to participants for their feedback
Hello Neighbor
National Network Intern and Marketing and Development Intern
- Program growth: research and evaluation of existing nationwide initiatives
- Information systems: build out and create grants management system, information entry
Honeycomb Credit
Data Analytics Intern
- Data science related: collect, manage, and analyze investment and small business data from Honeycomb’s crowdfunding platform, and create a centralized dashboard for key metrics.
Industrial Arts Workshop
Summer Welding Bootcamp Student Outcomes Specialist
- Data science related: data collection, evaluation of participant experience, data analysis
InformUp
Software Engineering & Outreach Interns
- Data & Dashboards: Create and/or extend a publishing dashboard for community reporters to easily cover their local meetings
- Outreach: Develop processes and materials to help high school students deliver news and collect community feedback
International Poetry Forum
Student Intern
- Research: conduct research on the history of poetry in Pittsburgh
- Production: help with developing and producing a podcast series
- Marketing: assist with outreach and planning for future events
The Japan-America Society of Pennsylvania
Nonprofit Management and Program Analysis Intern
- Community engagement related: event planning and management
Macedonia FACE
Senior Center Program Assistant, Family and Community Engagement Services Program Assistant
- Community engagement related: Event management, outreach and engagement with seniors
- Education related: Facilitate workshops and events for Hill District Early Literacy Initiative
Oakland Planning and Development Corporation
Community Engagement & Marketing Intern
- Events & Engagement: Develop and support a variety of community programs from affordable housing efforts to reuse and recycling events to better the neighborhood
Peachy Day
Data Analytics Intern
- Development & User Experience: Collaborate on data analysis initiatives, improving quality and documentation, and help direct product development for a health app
Pittsburgh Hispanic Development Corporation
Business Analyst Intern
- Business related: consult with small business owners to create plans, industry research, business acceleration, community reinvestment
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy
Advancement and Development Intern
- Information systems: evaluation of CRM systems, database entry cleaning, systems improvement
- Data Science: engage in stewardship initiatives to collect data and survey donors
Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise
Data Intern and Marketing Intern
- Data Science related: data analytics, compilation and analysis of historical data, data interpretation
- Marketing related: develop marketing plan/timeline with emphasis on branding and social media
Reclamation Factory
Machine Learning or Data Analysis Intern
- Data analysis: work data collected during spring plastics recycling projects to structure this data, develop machine learning models to optimize operations and/or develop a user-friendly web app and API to help clients
- Process development: provide insights to improve data collection for future pilots and potential implementations
Sharpsburg Neighborhood Organization
Community Engagement Intern
- Community-engaged projects: collecting and analyzing community needs through assessments and housing-related data
- Sustainability & justice: review ecodistrict-related program areas including housing affordability and anti-displacement efforts, green energy innovations, infrastructure and mobility and more
SHzoom Technologies
Data Analyst Intern and Research and Digital Marketing Intern
- Business related: market research, lead generation, team brainstorming
- Information systems related: regular system testing, customer technical support, CRM database management
Smart Futures
eLearning Curriculum Builder
- Content Creation related: animated educational videos and/or interactive web content
- Youth/Education related: use programming, psychology or writing to build K-12 learning modules
Squirrel Hill Historical Society
Historical Researcher
- Research: contribute to the ongoing research and compilation of historical data about Squirrel Hill, working towards publishing blogs and a potential book
- Events: contribute to or attend monthly programming on local history and reconstruction of sites such as the Neill Log House
Trying Together
Data Analyst Intern
- Data Science related: data collection, cleaning, reporting, validation, dashboard creation
WESA
Broadcast & Digital Journalists
- Story Research & Writing: Pitch, write and produce stories for broadcast and web
- Audio & Visual: Utilize photography, audio and potentially video equipment for field reporting and story writing
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy
Web Development Intern
- Accessibility & web development: fix broken links across the sites, implement aria labels across all hyperlinks, re-structure webpages to meet current accessibility guidelines
- SEO enhacement: create and implement alt text for images and videos across sites and write meta descriptions
Wilkinsburg Borough
Special Events Coordinator
- Program delivery: develop an archery program for the summer, including promotions for the program, recuritment of families, etc.
- Community enagagement: intern will also assist in planning, promotion, execution and post-production follow-up for local concerts and special events
Wilkinsburg Shade Tree Committee
Web Development & Communications Intern:
- Web Development & SEO: Improve and build dynamic and informative web elements, including graphic design and mapping tools
- Outreach & Social Media: Revamp and integrate social media updates, design a logo and data stories, promote the committee events in the community
Xpogo, LLC
Xpogo Intern
- Data science: Analyze sales and financial data, R based data work, CRM
- Event Management: Event production for Pogopalooza, business strategy, SEO, social media
Youth Enrichment Services
Summer Scholar & Technical Interns
- Project Development & Program Delivery: Help youth in the community engage with research and develop programming efforts for the summer
- Accounting & Operations: Plan and execute programs, track and analyze participant data, gain Salesforce and accounting experience and more