It’s time to meet the Summer 2023 summer cohort. This year we received more than 1,800 applications to welcome 200 successful Sage Corps fellows who will be interning with global startups this summer. This year’s students come from 56 different universities. We especially want to thank a few of our amazing university partners for…
Sage Corps was honored to be a finalist in the 2021 GoAbroad Innovation Awards in the “Innovative New Program – Intern Abroad” Category! This award honors an inventive and unique internship program, focusing on successful program development and execution, as well as overall creativity. Since 2013, Sage Corps has run international internship programs for thousands…
For our fourth Startup Spotlight, we interviewed the Senior Marketing Manager of PourMyBeer, Tana Rulkova. PourMyBeer is the leading self-pour beverage system with over 8,000 taps in service in over 24 countries supporting large brands like Buffalo Wild Wings, Caesars Entertainment, and Whole Foods.
At Sage Corps, we’re lucky enough to work with amazing universities around the country. We create unique programs based on the goals of the school and our own expertise in experiential, global learning. This spring, we worked with a group of talented Freshman at University of Illinois’ Grainger School of Engineering. As Freshman, these students…
With so many aspects of our daily life affected by efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19, going out of the house to intern is a challenge. We know that summer internships provide valuable work experiences that prepare you for your next step in college or after graduation, invaluable experience you shouldn’t miss. Remote work…
If you know anything about Sage Corps, you know that what makes our program so unique is the invaluable experience our fellows have interning with startups. That being said, it’s about time we start highlighting some of our favorite startup affiliates! First up: Let’s Eat, Grandma. FOUNDING STORY Matthew and Chris Villanueva, brothers who studied…
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…
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…
