CVTC Student Internships

The following CVTC programs include student internship opportunities. New internship worksites are always welcome; employers are encouraged to contact us for more information. Program-by-program descriptions, below, indicate minimum hours needed to fulfill course requirements. Employers may require more hours, depending on the project or duties assigned. In addition, multiple internship experiences can sometimes be combined, allowing smaller projects at multiple worksites to meet total hour requirements.

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Accounting
This internship experience culminates the Accounting program with 80 hours of accounting experience. Students put into practice previously learned theory. Students may perform various accounting functions on the job such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, financial statement preparation, cost or tax accounting. This may be either a paid or unpaid internship for 80 hours, during the fall or spring semesters.
Contact:  Brenda Thalacker at 715-833-6392; e-mail:  bthalacker@cvtc.edu

Administrative Assistant or Office Assistant
The culminating internship provides the student with the opportunity to perform administrative assistant duties working with current computer software and hardware. Typical work tasks include composing and editing documents using Microsoft Office Suite programs, producing mailings, creating flyers and brochures, and serving clients. Students also complete a special project at their internship worksite. This may be an unpaid or paid internship that ranges from 70 to 130 hours and spans 10 weeks during fall or spring semester.
Contact:  Kathy Briggs at 715-833-6380; e-mail:  kbriggs@cvtc.edu

Agriscience Technician
Possible internships include the following assignments: herd manager and assistant herd manager duties, veterinary assistant, County Land Conservation Departments, Natural Resource Conservation Service Agency, agronomy-related jobs such as crop consulting, and crop protection applicator jobs, etc. This is a paid internship for 240 hours between the students' 1st and 2nd year during the summer.
Contact: Dwight Swenson at 715-833-6490; e-mail:  dswenson@cvtc.edu

Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Associate
In the first AODA internship, students observe, and in the second internship they get experience in the eight practice domains of addiction counseling: clinical evaluation, treatment planning, referral, service coordination, counseling, education, documentation, and professional and ethical responsibilities. These internships are unpaid for 8 hours a week (first internship) and 24 hours a week (second internship) for 16 weeks. The first internship begins in January, and the second internship begins in August.
Contact: Gail Kinney at 715-833-6482; e-mail:  gkinney@cvtc.edu

Child Care Services
Child Care Services students work under supervision as an assistant to childcare workers in a variety of settings, such as family day care, group day care, Head Start, preschool and kindergarten. This is an unpaid internship for 144 hrs per semester, for two semesters, during the fall and spring.
Contact: Linda DeMoe at 715-833-6361; e-mail:  ldemoe@cvtc.edu

Clinical Lab Technician
CVTC students are trained in all areas of the laboratory. The internship provides further on-the-job training in specific areas: chemistry, hematology, microbiology, blood bank, urinalysis, immunology, and phlebotomy. This is an unpaid internship for 40hrs/week over 16 weeks in January, May and September.
Contact: Pat Griffin at 715-833-6420; e-mail:  pgriffin@cvtc.edu

Criminal Justice - Law Enforcement
This is an orientation into the criminal justice system. The internship could be described as a 'ride-along', with the intern observing what goes on in law enforcement. This is an unpaid field experience for 80+ hours over 8 weeks during the summer semester.
Contact: Forrest Nutter at 715-855-7508; e-mail:  fnutter@cvtc.edu

Diagnostic Medical Sonography
The intern performs in the role of a staff sonographer. The first few weeks are spent becoming familiar with equipment, protocols, and the routine of the clinical worksite. Thereafter, the student works on obtaining the competencies for internship. This is an unpaid internship for approximately 890 hours over 7 months-January through July.
Contact: Kathy Kurshinsky at 715-833-6402; e-mail:  kkurshinsky@cvtc.edu

Diesel/Heavy Equipment Technician
This internship is designed to provide the student with a purposeful occupational experience in the medium/heavy truck field. Each internship is an individualized experience. A training plan is created for each student in conjunction with the training worksite and CVTC Diesel Technician Program to provide experience related to the skills and knowledge acquired in the program. This is a unpaid / paid internship for 144 hours during the spring semester.
Contact: Rusty Naylor at 715-855-7540; e-mail:  rnaylor@cvtc.edu

Fire Protection Technician
Interns perform general firefighting duties, in full-time departments only. This is an unpaid internship for 423 hours on 24-hour shifts during fall, spring or summer semesters.
Contact: Marcy Bruflat at 715-855-7503; e-mail:  mbruflat@cvtc.edu

Geographic Information Systems
The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Program requires a practicum for its students generally during their last semester. The practicum encompasses as many phases of GIS as possible including entering, updating, analyzing and outputting data. The practicum can be a paid or unpaid position which lasts approximately 144 hours.
Contact: Richard Mechelke at 715-858-1841; e-mail: rmechelke@cvtc.edu

Health Information Technician
HIT students are placed at a health care facility during three different semesters of the two year program. They first spend 24 hours focusing on ambulatory care (in their second semester) and next spend 24 hours focusing on long term care (third semester). During the final semester, students participate in an internship in an acute care setting. This final unpaid internship consists of 192 hours spread over 8 weeks.
Contact: Margie Konik at 715-858-1824; e-mail:  mkonik@cvtc.edu

Hotel and Restaurant Management
These interns perform any hospitality related position: i.e. front desk, housekeeping, night auditor, prep cook, server, tourism intern, etc. This internship is usually paid; students complete 144 hours, typically over the course of the 16 weeks of the fall semester.
Contact: Barbara Hoffman at 715-858-1844; e-mail:  bhoffman@cvtc.edu

Information Technology - Programmer/Analyst
   (formerly known as Computer Information Systems)
Student interns may perform duties such as the following: programming business applications, web page design and programming, spreadsheet applications, database applications. This is a paid internship that may start any time of the year. The number of credits depends on the number of hours:
1 credit = 64 hrs, 2 credits = 128 hrs, 3 credits = 192 hrs.
Contact: Kyle Loewenhagen at 715-858-1881; e-mail:  kloewenhagen@cvtc.edu.

Information Technology - Network Specialist
   (formerly known as Computer Network Specialist)
Duties that could be performed by CNS interns include: workstation installation and troubleshooting, and network administration for the following network operating systems: Windows 2000 server, Linux/Unix, Novell NetWare. This is a paid internship ($8 to $10/hr average) that may start any time of the year. The number of credits depends on the number of hours-1 credit = 64 hrs, 2 credits = 128 hrs, 3 credits = 192 hrs.
Contact: Brian Schwahn at 715-833-6233; e-mail:  bschwahn@cvtc.edu

Marketing
The student intern must be given assignments and receive on-the-job experience relating to at least one of the nine functions of marketing: promotion, selling, product/service planning, marketing-information management, risk management, pricing, purchasing, distribution and/or financing. This internship can be either paid or unpaid for 128 hours over 16 weeks during fall or spring semesters.
Contact: Jean Husby at 715-858-1854 or Dave Rowe at 715-833-6390; e-mail:   jhusby@cvtc.edu or drowe@cvtc.edu

Medical Assistant
The Medical Assistant extern will perform entry-level skills, including patient care skills (vital signs, injections, phlebotomy, catheterization, preparing patient for exam/procedures, EKGs, etc.) and administrative skills (scheduling appointments, transcribing, preparing charts, etc.). This is an unpaid externship for 36 hrs/week for 6 weeks in April/May, June/July, and November/December.
Contact: Brigitte Niedzwiecki at 715-833-6398; e-mail:   bniedzwiecki@cvtc.edu

Nanoscience Technology
The Nanoscience internship provides students with hands on training in industries related to nanotechnology. The internship may involve semiconductor processing, biotechnology, nanomaterials characterization, operating atomic force microscopes or scanning electron microscopes, working with vacuum equipment, plasma reactors, or chemical processing. The internship may be paid or unpaid.
Contact: Hans Mikelson at 715-874-4638; e-mail:   hmikelson@cvtc.edu

Paralegal
Interns perform substantive legal duties including drafting legal documents, completing legal research, performing investigations, interviewing witnesses, etc. This is an unpaid internship for 144 hours for one semester during the fall or spring.
Contact: Linda Oliver at 715-833-6466; email:   loliver@cvtc.edu

Radiography
Intern can perform most duties of an entry level Radiologic Technologist. Interns will assist with patient care, preparation and evaluation of images. This is an unpaid internship for 32 hrs/week over 12 weeks, April through June.
Contact: Shelly Olson at 715-833-6675; e-mail:  solson@cvtc.edu

Surgical Technologist
The Surgical Technologist student will be able to perform entry level skills, including first scrubbing minor and major general cases, minor orthopedic and ENT cases, and second scrubbing major orthopedic, vascular, and thoracic cases. These are unpaid internships that are six weeks in length for 32 hours per week, beginning in November and June.
Contact: David Yount at 715-858-1897; e-mail:  dyount@cvtc.edu

Wood Technics
Students should work on the job and work on a variety of different tasks. They should work as beginning carpenters. Interns should observe what the foreman does and what the owner of the business does. We want them to get a feel for the complete construction worksite work experience of a real job. This is an unpaid internship for 40 hrs/week for 1 week in April.
Contact: Joe Cook at 715-833-6333; e-mail:  jcook@cvtc.edu