The Intern

Amid all the games of chance at Red Rock, there will be one game of consummate skill.

The Intern is returning for SNDVegas and it’s your chance to win a summer job or fellowship at:

• The St. Petersburg Times
• The Arizona Republic
• The Hartford Courant
• The Dallas Morning News
• The Boston Globe
• Creative Circle Media Consulting
• One of three multimedia summer fellowships for graduating seniors at the Poynter Institute
• Additional participants will be announced over the summer as their 2009 budgets are firmed up

The Intern was a huge hit when it debuted at the Orlando Workshop and the competition was impressive last year in Boston as well. After a couple of years of very elaborate contests, the competition becomes simpler and considerably broader this year.

If you’re coming to Vegas for either the free student workshop and/or the professional workshop, you’re eligible to compete in the first round.

Your first step is to submit your application.

Semi-finalists will be chosen based on the application and performance in a live visual challenge exercise at the end of the student workshop. They will be announced poolside at the opening reception Sunday night.

The semi-finalists will then participate in group and one-on-one interview sessions with the judges at a Monday luncheon. After that, winners will be chosen and announced at our Tuesday morning general session.

Judges will be a representative from each of the organizations offering jobs, Northwestern University assistant professor Susan Mango Curtis (also a past president of SND) and year one intern winner Carrie Hoover, now with The Oregonian.

So, give it a shot. The odds are pretty good. And best of all, if you don’t win one of the competition spots, we’re arranging a mini “job fair” for students and potential employers so that everyone who comes looking for an internship still can walk away with a job.

If you’re planning on being here and would like to participate, download our “How We’ll Play It” and “Application” forms.

You have until July 16 to have your application to us in Vegas. Download the application.