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"It combines my two sports and giving back to the said Roczko. It helps that she's also a Penguines fan. She works with donation request and helps organizethe team's charity work. who will receive an MBA in is one of the thousands of collegw students interningwith Pittsburgh-area employers this She hopes her work with the Penguins will lead to a permanentg job. "Hopefully they will keep me on; if not, it will be great for networking andmy resume," she Ramzi Qaabar, a student, found his curreng internship as a software engineer at Downtown-basef through , a CMU Web site that helps to put studenta in contact with prospective internships.
For Qaabar, an internshio is important because it helps him to expanx his experience beyondsoftware engineering. "I want to enhancw my knowledge about the business aspectsof engineering, to work in both the businesas side and the technical side," said Qaabar, a Palestinian who came to the Unitecd States to complete a master's After he graduates, Qaabar plans to retur to home and continue his work there, and hopez that learning about both business and technology will increasee his job options back home. Leah Tsikalas wanted a photojournalism internship withthe , but the group didn'tg have a need for a photography or so its executive team thought.
Caroo Greco, assistant director in the Office of Career Developmentt at PointPark University, where Tsikalas is a senior, talked to the foundation, whichy then decided to create the "She told them that they needed someone who was well-roundeds enough to both plan events and photograph Tsikalas said. She expects to gain valuabls career experiencethis summer, planning and photographing events and helpinbg to design a new look for the Foundation, possiblh including a new logo and brochure.