Ohio State students gain work experience through summer internships
Students in a variety of majors gained practical work experience this summer by participating in the Wheeler and Wolstein Internship Program. The students made presentations highlighting the projects they worked on at central Ohio companies during an Aug. 9 event at The Ohio State University’s Student Entrepreneurs’ Center, home of the Keenan Center for Entrepreneurship.
The program provides scholarship funding to undergraduate and graduate students in internships with startup companies and small businesses. Students are matched with organizations offering project-based internships throughout Ohio State’s summer term (May-August).
“This is an exciting program for us because it gives students an opportunity for real world work experiences and to do some fun things,” said Cheryl Turnbull, senior director of Ohio State’s Keenan Center for Entrepreneurship, a campus-wide hub for the development of student entrepreneurs and part of Ohio State’s Enterprise for Research, Innovation and Knowledge.