The Tech Center Internships

The Language Flagship Technology Innovation Center at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa offers an Internship Program to qualified graduate students who are Flagship alumni or current undergraduate students in a Flagship program who are interested in gaining experience working with innovative language technologies and language learning professionals. The purpose of the program is to facilitate student participation in an intensive language technology project. Interns are supervised by Tech Center faculty and are expected to be working towards a technology-related major, such as computer science, educational technology, applied linguistics and technology, or a related field, or have a strong interest in technology.

2024/2025 Hybrid Internship Program

This academic year, the Internship Program is offered in a hybrid mode that includes a one-week on-site period at the Tech Center in Honolulu, HI; remote project work; and in-person participation at the Hack the Flagship hackathon, which will be held at Arizona State University (ASU). The Tech Center will provide a stipend to cover travel-related costs incurred by the intern as part of the onsite period in Honolulu and participation in the Hackathon at ASU.

Read more in the information sheet.

➡️ Internship Information Sheet

Topics for internship projects vary, depending on a student’s interest. For example, a recent Intern was directly involved in the development of an Arabic text summarization algorithm using probabilistic topic modeling techniques (see short video above). 

Areas of expertise that typically overlap with Tech Center projects include natural language processing, human language technology, computational linguistics, data science methods/techniques, digital audio/video data processing and analysis, human computer interaction/design, and learning technology design/implementation.