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Baldwin
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by JUSTIN HERBERGER
News Reporter
After seeing a flier advertising international internships, then Appalachian State University freshman journalism major Chelsea J. Baldwin decided to become involved in the world’s largest student-run organization, the International Association of Students in Economics and Commerce (AIESEC).
The summer after her sophomore year, Baldwin traveled to Mexico to practice her Spanish language skills and complete an internship working with a camp that hosted students and employers for leadership education.
“It’s an international internship program that’s put together by students around the world,” senior economics and management major and AIESEC local community President A. Devin Moretz said. “Each university involved in the organization contacts surrounding businesses to raise internship opportunities for international students.”
Appalachian’s
chapter of AIESEC will hold an information session Tuesday from 4:30
p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the New River Room of Plemmons Student Union for
students to learn how the organization can help them find internship
opportunities abroad through AIESEC’s exchange program.
Moretz
said students search for internships based on criteria such as
location, field, duration and pay. AIESEC’s internships range in
duration from two to 18 months.
Baldwin,
now a senior journalism major and local community executive director
for Appalachian’s AIESEC chapter, said she took a lot out of her
experience in Mexico.
“I was not living with any other Americans,” she said. “It was a complete total immersion in the culture.”
Baldwin
said she hopes to utilize the organization’s resources again this
summer to travel to India following her graduation in May.
After
Tuesday’s session, Moretz said students who decide to take the next
step and initiate the planning of a trip meet with AIESEC leadership
for a follow-up meeting and additional help.
Moretz said any student can become involved or use AIESEC to travel abroad.
“No
matter what your major is, if you want to get a cultural experience, do
an internship abroad and live in another country, you can do it,” he
said.
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