As I moved from table to table at our lunch time event during Project Open Doors in Menlo Park, I couldn't help but think of Kermit the Frog singing " Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection - the lovers, the dreamers and me"
...At the risk of comparing myself to Kermit, my version of the song was slightly different and went something like "Sun has found it, the intern connection - the marketers, the techies, and more" (I know it doesn't rhyme as well...but we all can't be as cool as Kermit)
We hosted a wonderful group of students from the Coro Exploring Leadership program. They had a full day of events and were given the opportunity to meet in small groups with the employees and executives from across the company, and lunch was no exception.
I was able to organize about 15 interns to meet with the visiting students during lunch. About every 4 students were paired with an intern and had the chance to ask a range of question from what working at sun as an intern is like, to what college is like. At the end of the 1 hour, both the students and the interns walked away feeling like they had learned something new. At the end of the day the Coro students filled out their evaluations about what they thought about their day, and by far the activity they most enjoyed was meeting the interns!
Way to go MPK interns. It isn't often that we find a job that we can feel we are really making a difference in others lives, especially as an intern. So it was a win-win situation, and I can't wait to do it again!
Here are some pictures that captured the "intern connection" (Can you guess who the interns are?)
