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Future Scientists and Engineers Get a Leg Up at TMT-Sponsored Summer Internship Program

A highly successful internship program run by the Akamai Workforce Initiative (AWI) is starting another summer session this week, thanks in part to funding from the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project.
In Hawaiian, akamai means "smart, clever or expert," and those words certainly characterise the college students who take part in the eight-week program. Since 2003, AWI has helped advance local Hawaiians into careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Some of the very jobs that will be created by the TMT project in the years ahead will likely be filled by AWI alumni.
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