WRITTEN BY SAGE CORPS SUMMER 2018 FELLOW, MEGAN REYNOLDS. “What’s it like to be a Sage Corps fellow in Paris?” you ask? Megan, an Accounting major and an Applied Psychology and Human Development minor from Boston College, is here to tell you all about her experience interning abroad: HOUSING “I live in a two-bedroom apartment…
WRITTEN BY SAGE CORPS SUMMER 2018 FELLOWS, TATUM PUGH AND JACOB HUBERT. What’s it like to be a Sage Corps fellow in Dublin, you ask? Tatum, a Convergence Journalism major from the University of Missouri, and Jacob, a Business Administration-Information Systems major and Economics and Psychology double minor from California Polytechnic State University, are here to…
WRITTEN BY SAGE CORPS SUMMER 2018 FELLOW, VIVIAN KINIGA. One of the fellows on our Austin, Texas pilot program this summer, Vivian, an Information Science major and a Business minor from Cornell University, shares her experience as an intern in the Lone Star State: HOUSING “I live in an apartment in a student housing center that…
WRITTEN BY SAGE CORPS SUMMER 2018 FELLOW, ANDREW FAGIN. Curious to see what your summer would look like interning abroad as a Sage Corps fellow in Melbourne, Australia? Andrew, an Informatics major and Business, Human-Computer Interaction, AND Psychology minor from Indiana University, has the inside scoop for you: HOUSING “I live in a hotel (Oaks on…
Last month, we announced our new diversity scholarship aimed at making the intern abroad experience accessible and affordable to underrepresented populations. We’re incredibly impressed by the outstanding applications we’ve been getting from diverse candidates all over the world, so we’ve decided to open up additional scholarship funds to another group that we feel needs better…
¡Viva México! This week, Sage Corps traveled to Mexico City, our newest program location for Summer 2018. We can’t wait to tell you all about this beautiful Latin American center of business, culture, and really, really good food. WHAT TO KNOW With a central population of 8.9 million and an even larger number of people in…
WOW, WHAT A YEAR IT’S BEEN SO FAR. This morning 1871 dropped the news that they had been named #1 university-affiliated business incubator in the world by UBI Global. The news was met with overwhelming excitement, both in the Chicago startup community and around the world. While we can’t say we’re surprised – who didn’t…
Since Sage Corps’ first cohort in 2013, it’s been our mission to make the intern abroad experience accessible and affordable to as many young people as possible, regardless of race, gender, culture, background, or identity. Our efforts have been met with extreme success; while 70% of college students who study abroad are white, 50% of our alumni come from…
In fall of 2013, Sage Corps was born at 1871, Chicago’s leading startup incubator and tech hub. 1871 was instrumental to our growth in many ways. Weekly workshops and office hours with mentors offered guidance and insights about key building blocks of our business; visits from foreign diplomats helped us access countries that would later…
If you’re a fan of ABC’s Shark Tank, you might have seen Chicago-based startup ChangEd appear on this past Sunday’s episode. ChangEd is an app that rounds up every purchase you make with your credit card to the next dollar and puts that spare change directly towards your student loan payments. We’re proud to also call them one…
