Get Involved

We want to help you create the space to learn from fellow technologists and system thinkers.  Whether you hire a CATLab intern to work through your company's backlog, attend the Impact Conference to connect with industry thought-leaders, or give a Tech Talk to grow your company's influence, the Center for Applied Technology is ready to help you innovate.  

How can we work together?

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Hire Santa Barbara's most promising young professionals

Hire an Intern

CATLab students are creative, motivated, and curious. Educated by one of the best Christian colleges in the nation, our students combine integrity, people skills, and technical ability. Our developers and analysts have extensive experience in Salesforce and coding, and our creative and ADR team members have wide-ranging communication and design skills.

During the summer, CATLab students work half-time at Westmont and half-time at professional internships. We've found that twenty hours per week (8am - 12pm every weekday) allows a company to get to know an intern, evaluate their success on a summer project, and decide if they're a good fit in the long term.

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Possible Intern Projects:

  • Salesforce Lightning Web Component development
  •  Salesforce Flow building
  •  Salesforce administration support
  •  Database clean up
  •  Data migration
  •  Business analysis and reporting
  •  Form building
  •  Website maintenance or improvement
  •  Marketing copywriting
  •  Email monitoring or sending
  •  Sales development representation
  •  Project management assistance

Please contact Zak Landrum, CATLab's program director, if you want to be on the list to interview CATLab students. He'll reach out in March with the best-fit candidates. You can make your offer to the person you see as the best fit for your company. Students are available to begin work the day after Westmont's commencement (usually the first or second week in May) and are available for 15 weeks.

Contact Zak

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Give a Tech Talk

Share your story and discover your next hire

We make it easy for you to connect with your next highly qualified hire. Our talented students want to learn from you!

Come share your professional story and any lessons you've learned along the way in a Tech Talk. (They're fun!) You'll find an eager audience of Westmont students looking to connect with industry professionals and learn from real-life experiences. This paves the road for relationship building and often leads to great intern hires!
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Start Your Own Program

Westmont's experience with CATLab has been transformational. Not only has Westmont received the creative energy and outstanding work input of dozens of brilliant young minds, the staff of the college have been re-invigorated with a sense of mission and purpose working alongside these students. The students are prepared for outstanding jobs in industry.

It's our hope to share this model and our findings with as many institutions as have interest in building a program like CATLab. Here we hope to curate a list of resources and example programs as we learn of them.

Programs and Resources

 

UCSB's Intern ProgramResource GuideImpact ConferenceSchedule a Q&A with Us