Certificate of Completion for Artificial Intelligence Pre-Internship Program.
Issued by Aptitude.
Conducted over a five-week period over the August to July 2023 timeframe, the objective of the AI Pre-Internship Program is providing participants the opportunity to gain valuable industry exposure and hands-on experience through a capstone project to careers in Artificial Intelligence. This program was offered in partnership with the Citi US Personal Banking Analytics organization.
The program will expose and put into practice technical skills in AI along with professional workplace skills through progressive Sprints working with Citi mentors on team projects. Building up to a final presentation of their respective capstone projects findings to executives to showcase what they learned skills and insights gained.
Modeled around the hybrid workplace with in-person kick-off and final presentation sessions, remaining portion delivered remotely to provide greater accessibility and teach modern work practices and protocols.
For clarity the pre-internship program is a career discovery and development experience and is not a direct employment relationship with Aptitude, Citi or any other affiliated partner.
Pre-program: Successful completion of an AI project building a basic recommender engine to learn basic principals and get set up on common tools such as Jupyter, Github or Google Colab.
Sprint 0: Applied synchronous and asynchronous learning sessions to build AI foundational skills, get acquainted to how AI is used at Citi and meet mentors.
Break into Agile teams with introduction to Capstone Projects. Implementing Sprint methodologies including Stand-up and End-of-Sprint Reviews.
Ongoing applied skills-based lessons.
Focus on data classification for Capstone projects.
Ongoing applied skills-based lessons.
Focus on implementation of learned skills and analysis within context of Capstone Project.
Ongoing applied skills-based lessons.
Preparation and delivery of insights through a final business presentation to company stakeholders.
