Innovation internships

Internships offer a mutual learning experience for partners and students. Students learn from real-world practices in your organisation, and in return offer a fresh and dynamic approach to complex problems. We are seeking partners who are prepared to co-create an internship experience with our Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation (BCII) students.

We invite organisations to consider hosting students for internships outside their ‘normal’ disciplinary talent pool. Consider the discoveries and insights that come from a fresh perspective. Our BCII students are learning to work across disciplines to be future change-makers; handling complexity and promoting adaptability.

Upcoming dates

In their final year, BCII students can undertake internships for course credit over Summer and Winter:

• Innovation Internship B – between 10 June and 25 July 2025. Students must have their placements confirmed by 20 June 2025.
• Innovation Internship A – between 3 November 2025 and 6 February 2026. Note: there is a blackout period from 1-12 December 2025 where students are unable to undertake internship hours due to an intensive subject. Students must have their placement summary submitted by 12 December 2025.

BCII attracts and develops students that are curious about thinking and doing things differently. They are equipped with tools and processes that let them solve contemporary commercial problems ahead of the years of experience that is usually required.

– Murray Stubbs, Co-founder and Systemic Designer, Snowmelt

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My name is Joseph. 
Hi I'm Chloe. 
My name is Annette. 
Having the students here was an amazing experience. Joe, Chloe and Annette did a fantastic job. 
We love working with our students and we really hope that everyone else does. 
The feedback we've been getting is that they're making an extraordinary contribution to the workplaces that they're going out to. 
I now have the skills and the confidence to be able to go out into any workplace and be given any problem and any team and have conficence as to how I can approach solving a problem. 
I learned to be comfortable with failure and making mistakes. 
I was a little bit apprehensive about the challenge, in terms of, okay we've got three students coming - I'm going to really need to hand-hold. However, what I learnt was, by appreciating upfront what the students were looking to achieve, we could then design an experience where they could all bring to the table their own knowledge, perspectives and experiences.
My mentor Nathan- it felt that anytime I wasn't able to answer or get more information or something, he would always connect me to someone within CBA or even outside of CBA. 
Trust university students with professional problems. 
 

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Internship requirements

Find out the requirements for hosting a TD School intern.

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1. Find out how to recruit TD School interns.
2. Check out our resources for internship hosts to support you in recruiting and onboarding TD School interns.