Welcome to the MIT Club of Puget Sound!

The MIT Club of Puget Sound, part of the MIT Alumni Association, is an all-volunteer run organization for MIT Alumni living in the greater Seattle area. Each year we host a number of exciting events like these:

• Monthly lectures and events featuring prominent local speakers and visiting professors from MIT
• Monthly Happy Hours/Networking Events in Seattle and the Eastside
• The Science and Engineering Program for Teachers (SEPT), in which we select five teachers each year to attend this one-week summer program for primary, middle, and high-school teachers to take a "drink from the fire hose" that is MIT
• Discounted attendance to MIT Enterprise Forum of the Northwest events
• A December luncheon with current MIT students from our area during their Winter break
• A dinner honoring new students admitted to MIT for the following year
• Our Annual Summer Picnic, a great chance to meet old friends and make new ones

Our Club is supported 100% by volunteers and dues/donations from members — we hope you'll join us.

Student/Alumni Externship Program

Bring the best and brightest MIT students into your workplace by volunteering to be an Externship Sponsor! The MIT Alumni Association's Externship Program is looking for alumni sponsors for the 2012 Externship Program. This program is a great opportunity to connect with current MIT students, to gain access to summer interns and future employees for your company, and to increase student awareness of your company and industry.

• Externships take place during the Independent Activities Period (IAP). IAP 2012 is scheduled for January 9-February 3, 2012.
• You can host an extern for one, two, or all four weeks of IAP.
• Go to http://alum.mit.edu/externships to review our timeline, learn about our matching process and access the online submission form.
• We are accepting opportunities from sponsors online until September 20, 2011.
• As long as an MIT alumnus/a in the company, lab or organization is willing to serve as sponsor, we are happy to work with a non-alumnus/a staff person/HR representative to administer the online paperwork.
• Contact Katie Maloney, externship@mit.edu or +1 617.452.3372, at anytime with questions.

Externships are primarily offered in the Boston, New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco areas, but we would like to encourage anyone who is interested to submit an opportunity! For more information about being an Externship Sponsor, please email externship@mit.edu or visit the Externship web site: http://alum.mit.edu/externships.