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LAUNCHING TECH CAREERS

Landing one or more summer internships nearly doubles the likelihood of landing a job within six months of graduating from college. We also know that employers look for internship candidates that have some tech experience on their resumes, so it is a classic Catch-22. If you don’t have a ‘connection’, how do you land that first tech internship?

The Winternship program, a series of career development workshops and a paid, three-week, mini-internship experience, is an innovative program that creates a new pathway into those coveted summer internships. In just three weeks, ‘Winterns’ get immersed in their host company’s business and work on a challenge project.

Over 80 companies have hosted almost 500 Winterns in the last few years and the results have been amazing in terms of launching students into tech careers.

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For Students

The Winternship program is a series of career development workshops and a paid, three-week, mini-internship experience in January for students at CUNY who are interested in pursuing a career in tech. This immersive experience exposes you to job opportunities in tech and computing while helping you build a strong resume, a larger community of CUNY students, and a professional network.

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For Companies

Everyone knows that you need real world experience to get that first job and Break Through Tech New York’s Winternship program provides just that. Break Through Tech works with 80+ companies to ensure that CUNY students are given the opportunity to get their foot in the door of the tech ecosystem through their participation in a paid 3 week Winternship during CUNY’s winter recess.

The Winternship immerses students in their host company’s business and allows them to work collaboratively on a challenge project. At the end of their Winternship, students have a resume credential that has proven to be transformational in terms of their ability to successfully land a summer tech internship. 

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WINTERNSHIP PARTNERS

Accenture

AccuWeather

ActionIQ

Aetna

Analytical Flavor Systems

AppNexus, a Xandr Company

ASAPP Inc.

Averon

Bitly

BlackRock

Blackstone

Bloomberg LP

Citigroup

CLEAR

Cognizant

Company

Cornell Tech K-12 Computer Science Experience

Credit Suisse

Deloitte

Dow Jones

eBay

Etsy

Exiger

Fiera Capital Inc.

General Assembly

Girl Scouts of Greater New York

Group Nine Media

Hospital for Special Surgery

IBM

Intersection

JPMorgan Chase

Kargo

KPMG, LLP

LinkedIn

Mastercard

Moody’s

Morgan Stanley

Mount Sinai Health System

New Lab

New York Cares

Numina

NYC First

OppenheimerFunds

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

Peloton Interactive, Inc.

Pfizer

Ready Set Rocket

RubiconMD

RWJBarnabas Health

Society of Women Coders

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation

Teachers Pay Teachers

Teladoc Health

The HOPE Program

The New York Foundling

The Student Leadership Network

UNICC

Union Settlement

United Way of New York City

URBAN-X

Verizon

Warby Parker

WebMD

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