Welcome to the students joing our intern program in 2019

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A warm welcome to the students joining the HPCC Systems Intern Program this summer!

As always, the standard of proposal submissions from students this year was extremely high. The review panel had a difficult task evaluating which proposals to accept, given the limited number places available. We know a lot of hard work goes into each proposal, so we'd like to say thank you to all students who took an interest in our intern program this year.

Five students have started work on their projects already, with five more joining the team by the end of June. Read our blog Meet the students joining our intern program in 2019 to find out more about the students who have been accepted on to the HPCC Systems Intern Program this year.

We encourage our interns to get involved with our open source community in a number of ways. In addition to their contribution to our open source project we encourage students to:

• Register as a user on our website and forums, read our blog and subscribe to our newsletter to keep informed about what is going on in our community.
• Keep a blog journal to document their intern experience and progress.
• Present at one of our Tech Talks later in the year. You can catch up last year's student Tech Talks presentations included in these editions: August 2018, September 2018 and November 2018.
• Enter our Technical Poster Presentation Contest held at our annual Community Day Summit in the Fall. Read this blog to find out about the posters entered into this contest in 2018.
• Present on the main stage or in a breakout session on Community Day itself.

Every year, the students who join our intern program achieve a lot in what is a relatively short period of time (12 weeks). We greatly value their contribution to our open source platform and community and are proud of their achievements.

Each student is mentored by one of our LexisNexis Risk Solutions colleagues and in many cases, additional mentoring is provided by university professors from our Academic Partners. We thank all our mentors for the encouragement and support they provide to our interns and for giving up their time to support our program.

Application to join the HPCC Systems Intern Program is by the submission of a proposal to complete a specific project during the 12 week internship period. Students can choose from our list of available projects, or they can suggest one of ther own, but it must leverage HPCC Systems in some way.

The proposal period reopens in the Fall for internships in 2020. Watch this forum for announcements. More information about the HPCC Systems Intern Program is available in our blog: Join the HPCC Systems team as an intern.