YOULOBE (Your Life Only Better); Teen Tech Advanced Internship - 1871 Building

YOULOBE Summer Intern: Conducting research that aligns with our business goals, social media, customer relationship building, marketing. We begin each summer internship with a full day training session where we teach them the fundamentals of who we are, how we work, goals and objectives for summer, and expectations we have for them as a team. We run the entire program as a cohesive team unit leveraging Agile and Lean Start-up processes. We break down the summer program into either weekly or bi-weekly semesters. In the corporate world we use the word iteration or sprint. Each semester begins with a planning session where work is planned and objectives set. We leverage technology such as Trello or JIRA to capture the work and the acceptance criteria as well as to make things visible. During the semester we work both together on site at 1871 (a few times per week) as well as remotely (a good amount of our work relies on driving more connections to the community and working with businesses, other teens and community members). We conduct standup calls 3 times per week either on the phone or in person. These are 15 minute calls where each participants must speak to what they have accomplished, what they plan on working on today and tomorrow and what issues they have. At the conclusion of each semester we conduct a full demo of the work completed by each teen and sub-team. After this we perform a full team retrospective on what we can improve on and make those changes.