Co-Op
In the School of Print Media students are required to fulfill two semesters of cooperative education (co-op), which consists of ten weeks of employment within the print media industry. The co-op program provides students with first-hand experience in the workforce and allows students to apply what they've learned in the classroom to real life applications. Co-op's offer students insight into a perspective career field and an opportunity to create professional contacts, develop career goals, and strengthen their resume. The strong reputation of RIT students encourages over 1,900 employers to recruit RIT students to work at their companies.
For more information visit the Cooperative Education and Career Services website.
Print Minor Helps Student Get Internship
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Over the past summer Arianna Valentini, a 4th year visual media student on the printing track at RIT, interned at Image City Photography Gallery on University Ave in downtown Rochester. Within the Image City Gallery structure there are no sole owners but a series of twelve partners who rotationally manage the gallery on a year-by-year basis, each with a stake in the outcome of that specific year.
In working with the gallery, Arianna was elevated to “partner status” and was endowed with responsibilities equal to those of the other partners. Arianna was responsible for gallery sittings 2-3 times per week in which she would monitor activities within the gallery and survey individuals who visited on that day. During openings, she was responsible for greeting visitors, replenishing refreshments, and counting the number of people entering and exiting the gallery. While the internship was unpaid, Arianna was given a stipend of one hundred dollars for purchasing schoolbooks for the upcoming year and was able to exhibit her personal photography for four months with no fee except a 15% commission charged on sold photographs.
While working at Image City, Arianna’s main task was to edit and proof the gallery’s exhibition catalog for their ‘2009 Portfolio Show.’ Arianna employed skills learned within the School of Print Media as well as in the School of Photography in order to connect between photographers wishing to exhibit their work in the show with the production crew at Lumiere Framing and Printing. She also created a public relations packet for surrounding area hotels to help publicize the gallery.
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Cunard Co-ops Information Sessions
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There will be Information Sessions about the Cunard co-ops aboard the Queen Mary 2, the Queen Victoria, and the Queen Elizabeth cruise ships. The Sessions are scheduled for this Thursday, October 29th from noon to 1:00 p.m. and again on Friday, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. in the Faculty Conference Room, #1265. Bring your questions!
Interviews for these co-op positions will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, November 3rd and November 4th. You many sign up for an interview time in the front office (#1135) beginning on Wednesday morning (October 28th). You should bring two copies of your up-to-date resume to the interview.
Professor Riordan and Professor Birkett will be conducting the interviews, and we will be happy to answer any of your questions if you cannot attend one of the Information Sessions.
These co-ops are a great opportunity to develop independence and self reliance along with having a unique travel experience! Do give them serious consideration.
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Kadley Gosselin Coops with Hasbro!
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Entering her 4th year in the New Media Publishing Program, Kadley Gosselin returned from a two quarter co-op at toy-maker, Hasbro in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Hired as a pre-press intern, Kadley was responsible for final proofing artwork, uploading electronic packaging files to their asset management system and distributing hard press proofs from Hasbro Far East.
Kadley describes her time at Hasbro:
“My actual responsibilities were pretty close to what was described to me when I was hired. I had a constant workload of releasing packaging artwork files to Hasbro Far East (HFE) in Hong Kong, which required filling out a “Final Art Release” form with the print specs, material, and part numbers and sending it with the art files via an FTP client. I also had the responsibility of uploading electronic packaging files to the Hasbro Asset Library for the prepress department. I created hard press proofs for the graphic designers to approve, and also received and distributed daily shipments of proofs from the print vendors in Hong Kong. My general support to the prepress department including everything from filing, assorted organizational projects, and training other interns.”
“Learning to be incredibly attentive to detail was the most important thing I took away from my experience. When working with HFE it was very important that all information I gave to them had been double-checked. Prepress is the last set of eyes to see the packaging art files before they go to HFE so it was important that I did not make any mistakes, otherwise it could cost the company.”
“My biggest achievement was filling in for the Prepress Manager while he was on vacation. While I was terrified before he left, I learned a tremendous amount in the week that he was gone. Keeping track of all of his brands and working with new people showed me how much I had learned in the months prior. After a day or two, I felt comfortable and could manage his workload better than I had ever expected.”
Kadley’s coop experience exhibits a major facet of the New Media Publishing program. Classes in pre-press operations allowed her to excel in here time at Hasbro.
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My Co-op at Peeq
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This past summer, I spent three months at Peeq Media working on various projects that were heavily oriented around web-development. Peeq offers several publishing solutions for creative needs including digital, wide format, and conventional printing, as well as web-to-print services. Peeq has locations in both Manhattan and Queens, New York.
During my co-op at Peeq, I was responsible for accompanying the Chief Information Officer of the company on business meetings with various clients, understanding their individual needs, and creating tools based on the PHP scripting language. PHP is used to pull information that is stored in a database, and then display the information as html in a browser. This provides users with a unique experience, because the information of a website changes based on specified criteria. PHP is also preferred for most web-development positions, because of its open source nature.
I was fortunate enough to accompany the CIO of Peeq on a business trip to meet with the Director of Design and Development at CBS Outdoor, who was located in the Chrysler building in Midtown New York City. My primary project was to build a tool that acted as a website and would collect data on various printing specifications of outdoor advertising, while keeping the experience of the user in mind. This tool gave CBS Outdoor the ability to synchronize their data across many departments. Their data was previously placed in several different locations, causing inconsistencies and redundancy, which is never an ideal situation. Ultimately, after I had created the tool for CBS Outdoor, I was given the opportunity to present what I had accomplished.
Living up in Rochester all my life and then moving to NYC for the summer was a little overwhelming. The size and complexity NYC is far greater than Rochester. Not only did my co-op teach me more about my career, but it gave e confidence as I mastered my way around the city. I feel this experience has strengthened my character and has prepared me for whatever challenge may come next. Overall, it was a very rewarding experience that I will be able to look back on and be proud of for years to come.
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