Dear all, Please find the memo attached below.
A very motivating opportunity with a wonderful and a great adviser. Students looking for internship and with a passion towards video making and community citizenship should apply. Regards, Manu --- Internship Opportunity: Make a short and exciting Video this Winters! An exciting and interesting opportunity for first/second year students to utilize their winters in a fruitful way learning plethora of new things. The internship constitutes creating a three-minute video to be launched on National Youth Day in january. The video shall focus on Vivekananda, a pre-independence patriot and philosopher, who inspired Subhas Bose to fight for India's independence, inspired JRD Tata to setup the IIScs and who was called by the American media as the 'Cyclonic Hindoo'. The video will focus on making the young generation aware about Vivekananda, his philosophy and his influence on modern India. The internship would require putting together creativity with technical-knowhow to create a powerful media to introduce Vivekananda to the youth. The candidate shall work on conceptualization and design of the video under active guidance. The candidate will gain experience in product design and development which will highly develop & enhance his/her presentation and product-selling skills. The candidate shall also discover how to self-learn new tools/techniques on a computer and how, with concerted effort, an impressive and audience-relevant product can be designed. Skills Required * Pursuing first/second year of college. With Keen interest in learning new things. * Ease of working on computer and a fast self-learner of new tools and software. * Ready to work hard and patient. * Creative, good aesthetic and common sense. * Patient.* Positive towards new ideas and reviews. Period: 14 December till 7th January 2010. Stipend: A respectable amount will be paid to cover basic costs of the person. The motivation of the project should be immense learning and contributing to a live project. To Apply: Send your resume to "[email protected]" With a 100 words(maximum) answer to "Why you would like to be a part of this project?" OR "The most interesting project I have worked upon" Last date: December 11, 5 pm Who would you work with? The current project is the brain child of a set of NSIT alumni and current students.The group is led by Mr Varun Aggarwal, alumni, MIT(USA). This esoteric group of 'social technologists' have previously created two videos which have been covered by the likes of CNN-IBN, Hindustan Times, The Hindu, MTV, FM, etc. We like to work on projects with a social goal addressed through technological tools. We think, with our small well-intentioned strides, we can change the world. If you think similarly, welcome to the club! -- Varun Aggarwal EECS PhD Student, MIT, http://try2doit.com (http://web.mit.edu/~varun_ag/www/) MIT India Reading Group, http://india.mit.edu CURE, India, http://www.noragging.com --The delay in replying is not my indifference, but my incompetence -- The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/
