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The ACTR Student Summer Internship

ACTR is happy to announce a new opportunity for college students who seek to sharpen their professional and administrative skills at our annual summer internship program. Although this is an unpaid internship, we strongly encourage future applicants to seek out financial support from their respective colleges or external sources (see a list of potential funding opportunities at the bottom of this page).

Term: June -- August
Length: between 4 weeks and 12 weeks
Hours: flexible, upon the agreement
For external internship funding: minimum 240 hours

The next cycle for the 2025 summer internship will start in January 2025.

     For questions, contact
     Olga Klimova
     vok1 at pitt.edu

Unpaid Internship Funding Sources
Click below for a comprehensive list of summer funding opportunities for unpaid internships

Internship summer funding
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The 2024 ACTR Summer Research Internship includes responsibilities pertaining to research, applied technologies, and DEIAB curriculum materials development.

Meet the 2024 Summer Intern

Katrina Brazhnikov is an undergraduate Russian Flagship student at Bryn Mawr College double-majoring in Russian Area Studies and French and Francophone Studies. She is passionate about cultural immersion, having participated in the 2020-2021 NSLI-Y Virtual Academic Year Program in Chisinau, Moldova; the 2022 Critical Language Scholarship Summer Program in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; and the 2023-2024 Russian Overseas Flagship Program in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Prior to this, Katrina participated in a two-week Russian homestay program in Saint-Petersburg during her sophomore year of high school at Friends School of Baltimore. During the fall of her junior year, she traveled to the International Olympiada in Moscow on the ACTR U.S. Delegation. The following summer, she worked as an arts and crafts instructor and social media intern in an English language immersion camp for Russian children in Nerekhta, Russia.

The 2024 Summer ACTR intern will support the ACTR Board of Directors in advancing their diversity, equity, access and inclusion objectives through work on two special summer projects: the creation of online instructional Russian language learning materials that expand and diversify cultural representations of the Russophone world and address social justice themes; the online compilation of a list of organizations that provide Russian-language based internship and employment opportunities.

1. Assist in the creation of innovative online DEIAB-focused Russian language learning modules (search for online authentic materials, create online instructional activities, and do online formatting)
2. Research and create content for the ACTR website:

research already existing DEIAB-focused Russian language materials, reach out to members of the Russian language field working on such materials, collect links to already existing materials to post on the ACTR website, write summaries for posting on webs
identify organizations providing Russian language-based internship or employment opportunities and collate information to post on website;
view and create summaries of past ACTR webinars, download webinars to ACTR youtube channel.

3. Website design and maintenance:

learn to create content and design pages on the ACTR website using WildApricot;
create additional website pages to feature the projects the intern works on;
assist the ACTR webmaster in the maintenance of other ACTR webpages.

4. Create promotional fliers to advertise ACTR events:

learn how to create promotional fliers using Canva
collect information for promotional fliers and create promotional fliers