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Beats by Dre Creative Advertising Strategy Externship
Beats by Dre Creative Advertising Strategy Externship
Step into the role of a junior creative strategist for Beats by Dre. You’ll analyze video ads across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, conduct consumer research, and build a creative strategy framework grounded in real platform best practices.
By the end, you’ll develop an original creative concept—walking away with a portfolio-ready deliverable that shows you can turn research into strategy.
Project Output
Develop a comprehensive creative strategy framework for Beats by Dre video advertising, then demonstrate its application through an original creative concept.
- Catalog and analyze 20-30 video ads across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube into a structured, insight-ready repository.
- Design and execute a consumer survey to capture real reactions to advertising content, combined with social listening insights.
- Build a Creative Strategy Framework including platform best practices, brand creative standards, effectiveness rubric, competitive analysis, and strategic recommendations.
- Develop an original creative concept with a creative brief, framework compliance evaluation, and a 5-minute strategic presentation.
By the end of this Externship, externs will have created:
- Ad Repository Database (20-30 tagged ads)
- Consumer Feedback Report
- Creative Strategy Framework Package
- Creative Concept Presentation
Skills You'll Gain
Beats by Dre, founded in 2006, is a leading audio brand known for its premium headphones, earphones, and speakers. As a company focused on innovation and customer satisfaction, Beats by Dre uses data-driven insights to ensure its products stay ahead of market trends and meet the needs of its global audience.
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Beats by Dre Creative Advertising Strategy Externship
Center for Improving Youth Justice Data Analytics
Center for Improving Youth Justice Data Analytics
Someone found something interesting in these datasets that changed how detention centers dress their staff across the country. Facilities where staff wore polos and khakis instead of guard uniforms had significantly lower rates of violence. One data point. Real kids. Real change. For more than 20 years, data has been collected from inside juvenile justice facilities across the country: incident reports, safety outcomes, surveys from the kids living there. But most of it has never been rigorously analyzed. Almost none of the data has reached the people with the power to act on it. In this externship, you'll dig into one of the most comprehensive juvenile justice datasets in existence — 300+ facilities, nine operational areas — build real research questions, run statistical analysis in Python, and deliver a findings package that mirrors what actual policy research teams produce. The analytics skills you'll build are ones any data role will demand. When you walk into an interview and explain what you found — and who it affects — hiring managers will remember you and your resume.
Project Output
Analyze a real multi-file dataset spanning 300+ juvenile justice facilities to develop research questions, conduct statistical analyses in Python, and deliver a professional findings package — including a written brief, data visualizations, presentation deck, and recorded presentation — that goes directly into CIYJ’s advocacy work with state agencies and legislators.
Skills You'll Gain
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Center for Improving Youth Justice Data Analytics
Attronica Financial Planning & Analysis and Private Company Valuation
Attronica Financial Planning & Analysis and Private Company Valuation
A 40-year-old IT and AV integration firm wants an honest assessment of what their business is worth. Students build a 4-page financial story using real financials, AI tools, and Excel — led by the CEO who built the company.
Project Output
Deliver a professional FP&A consulting package and company valuation for Attronica:
- Organize and analyze historical financial statements: Review Attronica’s audited financials, restructure data for clarity, and identify key trends across revenue, margins, and operating expenses.
- Build a financial forecasting model: Develop a forward-looking financial model in Excel incorporating revenue drivers, cost assumptions, and goal-seek analysis to project multiple growth scenarios.
- Conduct operational and competitive analysis: Evaluate Attronica’s market position within the IT hardware and services landscape, benchmarking against industry peers and identifying strategic advantages.
- Produce a comprehensive private company valuation: Apply DCF, comparable company, and precedent transaction methodologies to arrive at a defensible valuation range supporting strategic business decisions.
- Deliver a final strategy presentation to the CEO: Synthesize all findings into a polished slide deck presenting the FP&A assessment, valuation summary, and strategic recommendations for Attronica’s next chapter.
Skills You'll Gain
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Attronica Financial Planning & Analysis and Private Company Valuation
BeReal Product Management
BeReal Product Management
How should BeReal grow without losing what makes it... real? In this 8-week Product Management Externship, you’ll step into the role of a Product Manager tackling one of the most important challenges in consumer tech: how to grow MAUs, boost retention, and explore monetization—without breaking the product’s core mission of authenticity.
You’ll build real, resume-ready product skills by:
- Mapping the user journey to spot friction and drop-off
- Benchmarking competitors like TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat
- Prototyping a new feature using Replit Agent
- Running peer usability tests and analyzing feedback
- Synthesizing your work into a high-impact stakeholder pitch deck
By the end, you’ll have a portfolio project that shows off your UX, strategy, and communication skills—and a deeper understanding of how real PMs make decisions that shape products used by millions.
Project Output
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.
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
Skills You'll Gain
Founded in France, BeReal is a fast-growing social app with 40M users worldwide. They’re changing the way people connect—by encouraging users to share a real, unfiltered glimpse of their lives every day. In a landscape dominated by filters and algorithms, BeReal is fighting to let us all be “real” again.. BeReal is betting big on genuine connection—and wants your help in crafting features that stay true to that mission while growing engagement and reach.
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BeReal Product Management
Breaking Games SQL & Database Architecture
Breaking Games SQL & Database Architecture
Six messy CSVs, no database, and one question nobody can answer: what’s actually working?
Picture your first week at a fast-growing game company. There’s no database, nobody who knows SQL, and the business needs to know where to spend its next marketing dollar and where to pull back. Over 8 weeks, you’ll build two skills at once: questioning data with SQL, and working alongside Claude the way real analysts do now — it does the typing, you do the thinking. You’ll design the database that makes sense of the chaos, write the SQL that connects everything, and finish with a live HTML dashboard and a real recommendation for the business. No past database or SQL experience needed — just curiosity and a willingness to learn by doing.
Project Output
Deliver a working analytics database and a clear, data-backed recommendation that tells Breaking Games where to spend and where to pull back.
- Load and explore the raw data: Get six separate data files into a database and write your first queries — feeling firsthand why messy, disconnected data is so hard to work with.
- Design a database that connects the data: Structure proper tables, link them with keys, and join them to follow one customer’s journey from first ad click to purchase.
- Find out what’s actually selling: Rank the full product catalog by what drives revenue, build summary tables, and turn the numbers into a clear restock recommendation.
- See which marketing is working: Clean hundreds of messy traffic sources into tidy channels, then calculate which ads and channels actually pay off.
- Investigate why carts get abandoned: Dig into thousands of abandoned carts, uncover which “shoppers” are bots skewing the numbers, and calculate the real abandonment rate.
- Build a dashboard and make your recommendation: Pull everything into a clean, shareable HTML dashboard and make your case to the team.
Skills You'll Gain
Breaking Games is the publishing arm of AdMagic—the powerhouse behind hits like Cards Against Humanity and Exploding Kittens. But they’re more than just a traditional publisher. They help invent, test, launch, and distribute both their own games and others’, working across the entire tabletop ecosystem. This externship offers a rare peek behind the scenes of how digital marketing powers the business side of play.
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Breaking Games SQL & Database Architecture
Healthcare Operations & Consulting
Healthcare Operations & Consulting
This externship places you alongside case management leaders in acute mental healthcare to understand and improve how care coordination actually works in practice. Working with the Institute of Mental Health, you examine how case management workflows across inpatient care, emergency settings, and post-discharge follow-up shape patient experience, safety, and continuity of care. You will map real workflows, identify gaps and hidden risks, and make invisible coordination work visible through clear process diagrams and simple operational metrics. By the end, you will have created practical tools that help healthcare leaders better understand workload, risk, and care transitions, and support more patient-centered, reliable mental health care delivery.
Project Output
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.
Tools being used: Claude, Perplexity, Gamma
Skills You'll Gain
The Institute of Mental Health (IMH) is Singapore’s national acute psychiatric hospital, with over 1,950 beds and a mission to deliver holistic, integrative mental healthcare. It serves children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly through multidisciplinary teams that include psychologists, nurses, occupational therapists, and social workers. IMH combines evidence-based care with operational excellence to support mental health at scale.
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Healthcare Operations & Consulting
Deal Sourcing & Startup Analysis with Mangusta Capital
Deal Sourcing & Startup Analysis with Mangusta Capital
Mangusta Capital was founded by a member of SoftBank Vision Fund's founding team — the $100B+ fund behind Uber, Slack, ByteDance, and NVIDIA — and backed by the Luxottica family office, the group behind Ray-Ban and Oakley. As an extern, you'll work as a venture analyst on a live fund actively deploying capital into Vertical AI — startups building AI tools for healthcare, law, finance, and education. You'll source real companies, evaluate founders and markets, run competitor analysis, and write investment memos that reflect how professional investors actually build conviction. The skills you build here — market judgment, structured research, and investment communication — are the exact ones that get people hired at VC firms, growth equity funds, and startup strategy teams
Project Output
Create a professional slide deck and present your investment thesis to Mangusta's Partners:
- Source early stage startups you want to pitch: Search for and identify early-stage startups through diverse discovery methods to uncover under-the-radar companies for further evaluation.
- Conduct comprehensive due diligence: Gather and analyze company data, including fundraising history, team composition, press coverage, and financial metrics, to build reports for investment assessment.
- Generate and refine a targeted list of key competitors: Conduct an in-depth analysis of competitive positioning and differentiation to evaluate a startup’s potential within its market.
- Analyze B2C traction data: Interpret key metrics such as user engagement and app downloads. Leverage and develop AI-driven strategies to help synthesize customer sentiment data to identify product strengths and areas for improvement.
- Complete comprehensive startup analysis on core areas: This includes Market Opportunity, Technology & Core IP, Competitive Landscape, Go-to-Market Strategy, Team Assessment, and Risk Analysis, translating due diligence findings into actionable insights.
- Produce a strategic synergy report: This report should align the startup’s potential with the VC fund’s objectives, articulating collaborative value and strategic fit.
- Design and deliver a concise 3-slide investment memo: Deliver a polished, data-driven presentation in Google Slides to communicate key findings to potential investors as you would if you were a VC associate on the team.
Skills You'll Gain
Mangusta Capital is a venture capital and growth equity firm with origins in Italy, founded by SoftBank Vision Fund’s founder and backed by the family behind Ray-Ban/Oakley. The mission is to shape the world for future generations by supporting technology innovations that move humanity forward.
They invest in audacious founders building mission-critical capabilities across AI and software. As they reach the tipping point in the advent of AGI, we see the inevitability of unlocking massive productivity gains in complex workflows across all industries.
They invest in the next generation of great consumer brands and technologies enabling delightful consumer experiences. In the past, consumers trusted brands; today, consumers trust influencers. Mangusta searches for the trendsetters changing the way we eat, play, and live.
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Deal Sourcing & Startup Analysis with Mangusta Capital
Center for Improving Youth Justice Data Storytelling
Center for Improving Youth Justice Data Storytelling
Somewhere in America right now, a Black teenager is spending longer in solitary confinement than a white kid who did the same thing. A facility is overcrowded past capacity. A youth who never got a home visit is heading back to the same circumstances that landed them there.
CIYJ has the data to prove it — 20+ years of surveys, incident reports, and outcome measures from juvenile facilities across the country — and they need people who can turn that evidence into something decision-makers can’t ignore.
In this externship, students use Flourish and Canva to transform that research into dynamic, public-facing visuals built for the audiences who actually hold power: state legislators, facility directors, and funders. The work lands directly in CIYJ’s advocacy publications and policy presentations — not a portfolio piece that sits in a drawer, but something that could genuinely move the needle on how this country treats incarcerated kids.
Project Output
Design and deliver professional data visualizations using Flourish and Canva Magic Studio that translate CIYJ’s juvenile justice research into advocacy-ready materials. Your work will be used directly in CIYJ’s policy presentations and publications to influence state legislators, facility directors, and funders.
Skills You'll Gain
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Center for Improving Youth Justice Data Storytelling
HP Tech Ventures Venture Capital: Deal Sourcing & Startup Analysis
HP Tech Ventures Venture Capital: Deal Sourcing & Startup Analysis
Curious how venture capitalists spot the next big tech unicorn before it takes off? How do large companies stay ahead of competitors through strategic investments? In this externship, you'll learn how to discover, research, and evaluate innovative tech startups poised for success. Learn from an experienced investor and senior executive at HP. Master techniques to analyze market opportunities, perform due diligence, and create compelling investment memos. This program is perfect for anyone interested in startups, investing, or the fast-paced world of venture capital.
Project Output
Investment memo you’ll have a chance to present to the Investment Partner for investment consideration.
- Startup Sourcing: Learn how to find new, innovative tech startups using online tools.
- Company Research: Conduct research on potential startups, looking at things like their market and finances.
- Competitor Analysis: Research competitors in the same market to see how the startups compare.
- Investment Memo: Summarize your findings in reports that highlight key insights and recommendations.
Skills You'll Gain
HP Tech Ventures is the venture capital arm of HP Inc. Operating across teams in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, HP Tech Ventures is fostering an ecosystem of innovation and reinvention that will define tomorrow’s world and experiences.
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HP Tech Ventures Venture Capital: Deal Sourcing & Startup Analysis
Hydroficient Advanced: IoT Cyber Defense
Hydroficient Advanced: IoT Cyber Defense
In 2016, two college students exploited weak default passwords to hijack over 100,000 IoT devices, taking down Twitter, Netflix, Reddit, and Airbnb. The Mirai botnet proved how easily insecure connected devices can be weaponized. Nearly a decade later, the same vulnerabilities still exist—except now they control physical infrastructure.
In this externship, you’ll learn to think like an attacker before becoming the defender. You’ll break into a live IoT system, intercept unprotected data streams, spoof commands to devices, and identify real security weaknesses. Then you’ll switch sides: encrypting data pipelines, locking down device access, and building AI-driven detection to flag suspicious behavior. Your target is Hydroficient’s smart water management platform, where sensors stream data every 0.1 seconds and a single breach could disrupt critical operations.
By the end, you’ll deliver a Security Improvement Report designed for real-world use—and a portfolio artifact that proves you can secure production systems, not just discuss them.
Project Output
This externship places students in the role of cybersecurity engineers protecting IoT pipelines. You will deliver the following:
- 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.
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.
Skills You'll Gain
Hydroficient is a climate technology company building automated systems to optimize water usage in commercial and industrial buildings across North America. Their research shows that up to 95% of buildings are over-serviced, meaning excess water flows every time a tap runs. Hydroficient’s IoT-enabled HydroLogic platform dynamically adjusts water delivery based on actual demand, typically reducing water consumption and sewage output by around 20%. Awarded the Canadian Federal Government’s ElevateIP Grant, Hydroficient works with major restaurant chains, hotels, gyms, schools, and other large facilities used by millions of people every day.
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Hydroficient Advanced: IoT Cyber Defense
NY Racing NASCAR Sports Analytics
NY Racing NASCAR Sports Analytics
NY Racing is one of the few Black-owned teams in NASCAR, and they need to prove to sponsors that their investment pays off. Build real data pipelines in Python, score sponsorship visibility across a full season, and deliver a strategy deck John's team actually uses. For students who want serious Python reps on their resume, this is it. But the NASCAR brand and ownership story will pull in marketing, consulting, and sports business students too.
Project Output
Students analyze publicly available NASCAR race performance data and sponsorship exposure metrics to estimate "visibility ROI" for sponsors. Using Python, Google Sheets, and accessible free APIs, externs produce a unified dataset, a sponsorship visibility scoring model, and actionable recommendations for NY Racing's sponsorship strategy.
By completing this externship, learners will be able to:
- Collect publicly available NASCAR race data and organize it into structured datasets using Python and web scraping techniques
- Clean and merge data from multiple sources (race results, social media, news) using Python Pandas
- Analyze relationships between race performance metrics and sponsorship visibility indicators through exploratory data analysis
- Build a weighted scoring model to rank sponsorship opportunities by exposure efficiency
- Evaluate model results to identify the highest-value sponsorship targets for NY Racing
- Present data-driven recommendations in a professional stakeholder deck with clear methodology documentation
The goal is to research and present 2-3 actionable, data-backed recommendations for where NY Racing could target future sponsors.
Skills You'll Gain
NY Racing is a motorsports organization competing in the NASCAR Cup Series, where teams battle across 36+ races per season in front of millions of viewers. Like every NASCAR operation, NY Racing depends on sponsorship revenue to fund competitive performance — from engine development and pit crew salaries to travel logistics and driver marketing. With sponsorship dollars under increasing scrutiny, the team needs data-driven insight into which partnerships deliver the strongest return on visibility. As an extern, you'll help NY Racing evaluate the sponsorship landscape by building an analytical framework that quantifies exposure value and identifies the highest-efficiency opportunities in the series.
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NY Racing NASCAR Sports Analytics
Yinan Zhao Investing & Financial Modeling
Yinan Zhao Investing & Financial Modeling
Value investing is one of the core tenets of wealth creation. Learn how to analyse companiy financial to make investment decision based on the fundamentals of investing.
Project Output
Present and communicate your investment thesis to an investment committee.
- Financial Statements Analysis: Analyze SEC filings and company financial reports to determine financial health and identify key risks.
- Macroeconomic & Industry Trends: Investigate macroeconomic conditions and industry-specific trends influencing stock market performance.
- Risk & Catalyst Identification: Identify potential risks and market catalysts that could impact company valuations and stock performance.
- Trading Activity & Analyst Ratings: Review insider transactions and analyst ratings to gauge investor confidence and market sentiment around the company.
- Financial Model Development: Construct robust valuation models to forecast financial performance and price targets.
- Investment Memo & Presentation: Prepare professional, detailed investment memos and present recommendations clearly to stakeholders.
Skills You'll Gain
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Yinan Zhao Investing & Financial Modeling
TikTok Social Media Content & Brand Strategy
TikTok Social Media Content & Brand Strategy
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Step into the role of a junior brand strategist in this Brand and Content Strategy Externship, a four-week program designed in collaboration with Sapphire Studios and TikTok’s Head of Agency. Externs will learn to shape a brand’s personality across Instagram — crafting a unique brand voice, designing social content systems, analyzing virality patterns, and pitching final campaign concepts to real clients.
What makes this externship truly special? One of your mentors is Tara Pettus, Head of Agency at TikTok and former strategic leader at Apple and Meta. Tara’s deep experience leading revenue and partnerships for the world’s biggest platforms brings a level of insight and industry access rarely available to early-career talent. This is your chance to build agency-level creative systems and present your work to one of the most accomplished leaders in tech and media.
Project Output
Deliver a client-ready pitch deck that showcases your Instagram designs, campaign strategy, and brand voice systems:
1) Discover How Brands Build Trust Online: Map personas, define archetypes, and design mood boards to visualize OPM Pro Crew Gear’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.
Skills You'll Gain
TikTok's mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. The platform strives to create new jobs, drive revenue for businesses of all sizes, and contribute to the growth of economies around the world.
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TikTok Social Media Content & Brand Strategy
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