{"id":6277,"date":"2021-07-29T15:17:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T19:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randpc.com\/blog\/?p=6277"},"modified":"2021-07-29T17:00:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T21:00:50","slug":"interns2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/interns2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating RAND Interns, Current and Former, on National Intern Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6278\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6278\" class=\"wp-image-6278\" src=\"https:\/\/randpc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-Andrew-Miller-Structural-Intern-435-West-19th-Street-2editweb-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"RAND Intern Andrew Miller on site observing the 7th floor steel framing of a new residential development under construction.\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-Andrew-Miller-Structural-Intern-435-West-19th-Street-2editweb-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-Andrew-Miller-Structural-Intern-435-West-19th-Street-2editweb-485x364.jpg 485w, https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-Andrew-Miller-Structural-Intern-435-West-19th-Street-2editweb-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-Andrew-Miller-Structural-Intern-435-West-19th-Street-2editweb-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-Andrew-Miller-Structural-Intern-435-West-19th-Street-2editweb-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-Andrew-Miller-Structural-Intern-435-West-19th-Street-2editweb.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RAND's Summer Internship Program is back in the office and on site for 2021. Above, intern Andrew Miller observes the 7th floor steel framing of a new residential development under construction.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAND\u2019s summer internship program returned to the office this year, and in recognition of National Intern Day, held on the last Thursday of July each year, we\u2019re treating our interns to lunch to celebrate their hard work and contributions to RAND. All our interns, both remote and in-office will also be receiving a gift certificate as a token of our thanks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year, we have two returning interns who participated in our Summer 2019 internship program before the COVID-19 pandemic, and we\u2019re happy to announce that two other interns from that same program have graduated from their respective universities and just recently became full-time staff at RAND this past month. Welcome to the team, former interns Facade &amp; Roofing Project Associate <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/randpc.com\/blog\/internship2019\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alex Saglamer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Forensics Team Project Associate Brendon Huang!<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6279\" style=\"width: 399px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6279\" class=\"wp-image-6279 \" src=\"https:\/\/randpc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-First-Workings-Zoom-meeting-Silvia-and-Yolany-e1627585718210-300x188.png\" alt=\"RAND Project Associate Yolany Heredia meets virtually with First Workings intern, high school student Silvia.\" width=\"389\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2021-First-Workings-Zoom-meeting-Silvia-and-Yolany-e1627585718210-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2021-First-Workings-Zoom-meeting-Silvia-and-Yolany-e1627585718210-485x305.png 485w, https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2021-First-Workings-Zoom-meeting-Silvia-and-Yolany-e1627585718210-150x94.png 150w, https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2021-First-Workings-Zoom-meeting-Silvia-and-Yolany-e1627585718210-768x482.png 768w, https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2021-First-Workings-Zoom-meeting-Silvia-and-Yolany-e1627585718210.png 906w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RAND Project Associate Yolany Heredia meets virtually with First Workings intern, high school student Silvia.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also joining us remotely this year is high school student Silvia via <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/firstworkings.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First Workings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a non-profit organization RAND has teamed up with over the years that works with students from underrepresented and underserved communities. RAND Project Associate Yolany Heredia has been working one-on-one with Silvia, looking at colleges and career paths in engineering and architecture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Out of RAND\u2019s over 100-person staff, seven current staff members are former RAND interns, including our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/randpc.com\/blog\/from-intern-to-principal\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">greatest intern success story<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of all, RAND Principal Peter Varsalona, PE, who joined RAND as an intern in his junior at Columbia University in 1992. Via RAND\u2019s internship program, interns gain hands-on experience and guidance from mentors in the field of their interest and make lasting professional connections. The mission of our program has been to open doors to new opportunities and start bright young minds on the path to fulfilling careers and lives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Happy National Intern day to our interns and all the interns out there!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a look at some of our past intern\u2019s experiences, read more on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/randpc.com\/blog\/?s=intern\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">our blog<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Isabelle Walsh is RAND's Human Resources Manager.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAND\u2019s summer internship program returned to the office this year, and in recognition of National Intern Day, held on the last Thursday of July each year, we\u2019re treating our interns to lunch to celebrate their hard work and contributions to...<\/p>\n <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/interns2021\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read More\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":6278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,64,608],"tags":[603,104,697],"class_list":["post-6277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architects-2","category-engineers-2","category-training","category-volunteering","tag-interns","tag-internship","tag-mentoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}