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Washington State University Vancouver’s Creative Media and Digital Culture department
The program director, Dene Grigar can be reached at dgrigar@wsu.edu 360-546-9487 (office) or 214-641-4033 (cell). While they do not offer a free internship they have two amazing tracks to help small business and nonprofits.
Option 1: A student can work directly at BGHC for $15.00 an hour (Junior level) or $18.00 (Senior level)
Option 2: Sponsored Fellowship for $15.00 an hour (Junior level) or $18.00 an hour (Senior level) – this student works 1⁄2 time at BGHC and 1⁄2 at WSU Vancouver using all their equipment, technology, platforms and programs. All work done by the student is supervised by Dr. Grigar. This works out to be about $1500.00 to $2500.00 a semester.
Both options can provide web design (normally $60.00 an hour), Application development, background server (normally $120.00 an hour) design, info graphics, animation, video (normally $40.00 an hour) all social media platforms, and more. When the student has completed the fellowship or work WSU Vancouver will make sure BGHC knows how to use everything the student implemented. They actually will teach all staff giving them “digital literacy.” Option 2 can be tax deductible.
Dr. Grigar said she is looking at developing a program next semester and is very interested in offering some options to BGHC. She encouraged me to have them call her for more detailed information, specifically what their needs are. I could not give her specifics because 1. I am only providing a road map to get to this point 2. I do not know their budget 3. I do not know how much they want to develop and grow this area.