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Akamai 2026 Project Ideas Form
DATES AKAMAI INTERNS WILL BE ON-SITE FOR PROJECTS: June 8 to approximately August 7, 2026 (end dates vary with location and symposium schedule)

Please use this form to submit an 8-week project idea for this year’s Akamai Internship Program.

Note: This year’s program will be fully in-person. Mentor or host organizations will need to provide interns with a work station; and mentors will need to be available in-person at least 50% time at that site.

Following your submission of this form:
- We will follow up with you to collect additional project details to ensure we are able to appropriately match applicants with projects. You are able to revise your project submission form and details later.

- Your submission of this project form is not an obligation to host an intern; however, if circumstances do change after form submission, please make sure to let us know by sending an email to akamai@ucsc.edu.

* Required fields

Host Site and Mentor Details

Last Name*

First Name*

Site (Company)*

Job Title*

Location*

Email*

Phone*

Co-Mentor Information (If Applicable):

Please list no more than one person as a Co-Mentor if the primary mentoring responsibility is shared.

Co-Mentor Name

Co-Mentor Email

Permissions / Approval

Do you have approval to mentor an intern this summer?

Approver Name

Approver Email

Individual Submitting this Form

The person who is completing this form is the

If you’re neither mentors, please let us know who you are:

Name of person submitting this form

Email of person submitting this form

Project Details

Please complete these questions to tell us about your project. We are planning for all projects to be onsite (no remote projects).

Project Title*

Description *

Primary Type Work Environment (e.g. lab, computer workstation, summit, etc.)

Mentor Location and Availability

Mentor Availability During Program Dates

Mentor Physical Site

Intern Physical Site the Same as Mentor’s?

Intern Physical Site (If Different from Mentor’s)

Qualifications & Majors

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Best Fit Majors (provide 1-3 majors; please avoid responding “any STEM major”)

Other Considerations

What the intern will gain, such as skills, techniques, training, or other aspects of project or site experience that will help us make an attractive offer to applicants?

Additional Notes

Is there anything else we should know about the project, mentor, site, or other comments

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