SMMA’s Integrated Internship Program Gets Underway for 2022

L-R: Cole McCormack, Aidan Wills, Joey Hurley, AJ Gutierrez, Becca Schalip, Nathan Freyburger, Noah Ellingwood, Victoria Mickelson.

SMMA has re-launched our summer-long Integrated Internship program after a two-year pause. 

14 interns are participating in this year’s program, with interests including architecture, engineering, project management, IT, and administration. 

SMMA’s Integrated Internship provides students and young professionals with leadership opportunities and a fully integrated experience that takes advantage of the firm’s multidisciplinary design model.

“The goal is to not have interns do ‘intern work’, but for them to learn what their career will be like,” said Ronald Wassmer, an architect at SMMA and one of this year’s mentors. “Many of them are interacting with the entire project team, being exposed to clients and external consultants, and working with the contractor during the design and construction process. 

“The idea is to expose them to as many potential facets of their career as possible, in the short amount of time they're here.”

This year’s architecture interns are Nathan Freyburger (Ball State University), Becca Schalip (Harvard Graduate School of Design) Noah Ellingwood, and Nathan Power (both Roger Williams University), . The interior design interns are Juliet Bolger and Victoria Mickelson (both Endicott College). 

Other interns include landscape architecture intern Collin Stanifer (Purdue University), mechanical engineering intern Aidan Wills (UMass Amherst), plumbing/FP intern Joey Hurley (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), IT interns Cole McCormack (Westfield State University) and Chris Rocha (UMass Lowell), administration intern AJ Gutierrez (Princeton), HR student Juanita Asapokhai (Tufts University), and project management intern Knar Krafian (Northeastern University).