Comet’s Student Advisory Board

Comet’s Student Advisory Board is a responsible team of emerging creative and innovative leaders. Join our Student Advisory Board to gain valuable leadership skills, help us develop Comet and the internship program, and be a voice for students around the world. 

The mission of the Student Advisory Board is to represent students’ thoughts, ideas, and needs, and to lead by example through value-adding contributions in advancing Comet’s college applications platform and evolving internship program.

As representatives of the student base, Advisory Board members are encouraged to freely express their opinions and suggestions. The input of the board will lead to continued program growth, effectiveness, and opportunities within Comet’s organization. SAB leaders are dedicated to making Comet an active, inclusive community by keeping interns engaged with resources and supplementary learning opportunities.

The SAB term covers the Summer and Fall internship programs, and lasts for 7 months (05/07 - 12/07) with a short break in between sessions. 

Requirements:

• Available to meet 2x a month with the SAB team (via Zoom)

• Able to attend all webinars and meetings with interns during the duration of the internship program. You will be required to host separate meetings with interns to go over group projects. Expect to meet 2x-3x per week. 

• Contribute to Comet’s growing community by sharing resources and developing new projects for students to work on

• Great organizational skills. As a leader you’ll be responsible for keeping your interns on track of group projects and working collaboratively with your SAB partner. 

• Have a high degree of flexibility. We’re constantly solving new challenges.

• Must have participated in Comet’s Flight Test Internship Program 

• Must be based in the US due to meeting schedule

Responsibilities

• Get Familiar with Comet: Understand our brand’s purpose, vision, mission, and voice

• Brainstorm: Use imagination and creativity to develop new experiences, projects, features, and services designed to expand Comet’s value offering to students

• Advise: Attend monthly meetings to advise on both Comet’s College Application Platform and Flight Test Internship Program, and discuss ways in which both can be more beneficial resources for students - topics may include business operations, product features, product design, marketing solutions, social media strategies.

• Moderate Discord: Evaluate the needs of our diverse intern and student community and keep them engaged by sharing relevant resources (I.E Scholarships + volunteer opportunities) and leading brainstorm sessions and topic discussions) 

• Host a learning workshop - This can be on a topic of your choice as long as it’s relevant to the pillars of the internship (start up, college apps, design, coding, marketing, entrepreneurship, career, etc)

• Participate in Meetings: Be actively involved in attending and leading the Flight Tests, as well as being a part of and initiating workshops and meetings that would be beneficial to the internship team. 

Benefits:

• Develop your leadership, team-building, and problem solving skills. You’ll also become familiar with organizational protocol and best practices for influencing change within workplace environments.

• Network with Student Advisory Board members from across the country

• $200 appreciation gift at the end of term

• Letter of recommendation from manager

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