{"id":419,"date":"2009-08-10T10:54:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T14:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=419"},"modified":"2009-08-10T10:54:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T14:54:54","slug":"extreme-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2009\/extreme-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"eXtreme Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"

IBM<\/a> runs an internship (COOP) program called IBM Extreme Blue<\/a>.\u00a0 This is in addition to the regular internship (COOP) program, the difference is that the extreme blue program is the “best of the best”.\u00a0 There are only a few IBM labs that host these projects, but they select students from a very broad base of students who have worked for IBM in previous work terms.<\/p>\n

The teams are composed of 3 students focused on technical work<\/a>, and 1 MBA<\/a> who handles the business side of things.\u00a0 Their goal is to take a concept and create a compelling business case for further investment (by IBM).\u00a0 Think of this as a Start-Up<\/a> on steroids – they’ve got less than 4 months to do it all.<\/p>\n

This week all of the extreme blue students are gathered in Armonk, N.Y<\/a>. where they will deliver their finely tuned pitches.\u00a0 The audience will be composed of their fellow students, IBM mentors and most importantly IBM Executives.\u00a0 Sam Palmisano<\/a> is usually able to find time to take a brief tour of the booths that the students have setup, with a special stop at one of them for a deeper dive.<\/p>\n

The Ottawa J9 team hosted an extreme blue project this year.\u00a0 We used this to help take one of our prototype concepts further towards a complete business case.\u00a0 I have to confess this is a bit of a teaser post – since I can’t disclose very much about the project.\u00a0 You’ll have to speculate wildly based on the following image:<\/p>\n

\"java_unlimited\"<\/a><\/p>\n

You may want to check out the video clip from the local news station that talks about the IBM Ottawa Extreme Blue expo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Our team has a long history of hiring our COOP students, its a great deal both ways.\u00a0 The students know what they are walking into, and we’re got a better idea of what they are capable of.\u00a0 Even I was a COOP student for the VM team way back when.\u00a0 Each of the names involved with this project are top notch students -whoever manages to hire them will be lucky (and yes, we’ll be trying to).<\/p>\n

Good luck in N.Y. this week guys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IBM runs an internship (COOP) program called IBM Extreme Blue.\u00a0 This is in addition to the regular internship (COOP) program, the difference is that the extreme blue program is the “best of the best”.\u00a0 There are only a few IBM labs that host these projects, but they select students from a very broad base of … Continue reading “eXtreme Blue”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}