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Women and students of color are often at a disadvantage when it comes to taking on internships, hindering their opportunities to build relationships and connections in the technology sector.

To help close the gap, Break Through Tech launched a new idea called a “Sprinternship,” which gives women and other underrepresented students a shot at interning at tech companies over the course of a traditional break during the academic year.

Piloted at the City University of New York, Cornell Tech, and other schools since 2018, the program provides paid internships to computer science students over the three‐week winter break between the fall and spring semesters. Students build connections with potential employers and develop portfolios of their work experience to be used as they complete their computer science degrees and enter the workforce.

The program has since expanded to Chicago and Washington, DC.

Over 80 companies have hosted over 700 student internships since the program's inception. Students are making connections and getting access to networks they might not have otherwise had it not been for the existence of the program.