Minnesota Aspirations in Computing Internship Opportunities

Company Mission:
Our mission is simple yet profound: “LEAVE IT ALL ON THE FIELD.” This statement reflects our unwavering commitment to giving our absolute best in every aspect of the game, both on and off the field. We strive to foster a culture of excellence, determination, and integrity, where every team member is encouraged to pour their heart and soul into their performance. Our goal is to provide our fans with unforgettable experiences and a source of pride through our relentless pursuit of victory and sportsmanship.

Company Culture:
The culture at the Minnesota Twins is collaborative, innovative, and passionate. The organization values teamwork, integrity, and excellence, fostering a supportive environment where employees are encouraged to grow and contribute their best. With a strong focus on fan engagement and community involvement, the Twins aim to create memorable experiences both on and off the field.

Position Summary:
As an intern in our Technology Department, you will be an integral part of the Business Systems team, working on exciting and impactful projects. You will collaborate with our experienced data engineers to structure and optimize data for our web application using SQL and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You’ll work on data architecture, develop, and integrate APIs, and perform data preprocessing to ensure the integrity and usability of our data systems. Additionally, you will support the daily operations of the department, including providing limited game support. This internship offers a fantastic opportunity to grow professionally and contribute to meaningful projects in a dynamic environment.

Workplace Immersion:
You will gain hands-on experience with a diverse tech stack, including T-SQL, SQL Server, Python, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Power BI.

Preferred Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will be a curious and motivated individuals who is eager to learn and contribute to our team.

Work Status:
Hybird

Age Requirements:
16 years and older when the internship starts.

Company Mission:
Our mission is simple yet profound: “LEAVE IT ALL ON THE FIELD.” This statement reflects our unwavering commitment to giving our absolute best in every aspect of the game, both on and off the field. We strive to foster a culture of excellence, determination, and integrity, where every team member is encouraged to pour their heart and soul into their performance. Our goal is to provide our fans with unforgettable experiences and a source of pride through our relentless pursuit of victory and sportsmanship.

Company Culture:
The culture at the Minnesota Twins is collaborative, innovative, and passionate. The organization values teamwork, integrity, and excellence, fostering a supportive environment where employees are encouraged to grow and contribute their best. With a strong focus on fan engagement and community involvement, the Twins aim to create memorable experiences both on and off the field.

Position Summary:
As an intern in our Technology Department, you will be an integral part of the Business Systems team, working on exciting and impactful projects. You will assist with various programming tasks, helping to achieve the department’s objectives while honing your own skills. Your responsibilities will include designing and coding new features and enhancements, as well as collaborating with team members to identify and fix bugs. Additionally, you will support the daily operations of the department, including providing limited game support. This internship offers a fantastic opportunity to grow professionally and contribute to meaningful projects in a dynamic environment.

Workplace Immersion:
You will gain hands-on experience with a diverse tech stack, including JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, and SQL Server.

Preferred Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will be a curious and motivated individuals who is eager to learn and contribute to our team.

Work Status:
Hybird

Age Requirements:
16 years and older when the internship starts.

Company Mission:
We are a market- and customer-driven cooperative committed to optimizing the value of our members’ dairy, crop and livestock production.” Land O’Lakes Vision Statement: “Our vision is to be one of the best food and agricultural companies in the world by being: Our customers’ first choice; Our employees’ first choice; Responsible to our owners; and A leader in our communities.” 10,000 employees in 50 states and 50+ countries with three business divisions: Crop Inputs, Dairy Foods and Feed. To learn more about our company, please visit our website: landolakesinc.com/Company.

Company Culture:
Land O’Lakes, Inc. is one of America’s premiere member-owned cooperatives. We offer local cooperatives and agricultural producers across the nation an extensive line of agricultural supplies, as well as state-of-the-art production and business services. We also are a leading marketer of dairy-based food products for consumers, foodservice professionals and food manufacturers. Since 1921, we have been member-owned and directed. Today, we are the second-largest cooperative in the nation with approximately 9,000 employees, 3,200 direct producer-members and 1,000 member-cooperatives serving more than 300,000 agricultural producers. We handle 12 billion pounds of milk annually, produce a plethora of dairy foods products, are home to our respective industries’ top value-added brands and are a trusted partner to many of the nation’s top food companies and manufacturers. We do business in all 50 states and more than 50 countries. As a farmer-owned cooperative, it’s in our DNA to deeply invest in the communities where our members live and work. Historically, we have called these efforts Corporate Social Responsibility, but that language is starting to change. The traditional interpretation of Corporate Social Responsibility is sometimes viewed as being socially responsible independent of business objectives. In contrast, Creating Shared Value is all about improving the economic, social and financial well-being of local communities while generating a profit. To read more visit: www.landolakesinc.com/Responsibility.

Position Summary:
Join one of the Product/capability teams to support the digital strategy and execution to defend the Land O’Lakes brand as a category leader. The intern would partner with marketing, sales and IT to bring a customer-centric experience to life.

Workplace Immersion:
On the Product team, the intern deliverables could include:

• Supporting the development process (Agile story writing, website content contribution, testing) of a new ecommerce system
• Website content management and business partnership
• Real world experience and exposure to scrum software development. Be part of an enthusiastic and collaborative cross-functional team
• Development of Power BI reports
• SQL data extracts from systems, verification and file transfer to source location
• Export-transform-map data files and configure for use
• Training manuals, documentation
• Project coordination tasks
• The intern would gain real world experience on a major software development project that is critical to our business
• The intern would gain exposure to software development lifecycle working with some of our top technical and project management team members

Preferred Qualifications:
Excellent communication skills. Strong problem solving, organization, task and time management skills. Self-starter and self-motivated. Eagerness for learning and applying new technical skills

Work Status:
Hybrid

Age Requirements:
No age requirement, but the student must be authorized to legally work in the United States.

Company Mission:
Datasite helps businesses safely manage important financial information during big deals, like when companies buy or merge with each other. Think of it like a super-secure online vault where companies can store, organize, and share sensitive documents. Their mission is to make this process faster, easier, and safer, so businesses can focus on making smart decisions instead of worrying about paperwork.

Company Culture:
At Datasite, we value curiosity, creativity, and lifelong learning. We’re a fast-moving, global tech company that builds modern, cloud-based products using the latest technology. Twice a year, we run Innovation Jams (hackathons) where teams come together to brainstorm and build new ideas. We also host monthly Community of Practice events, where you can collaborate across teams, solve real-world problems, and have fun while learning from others.

Position Summary:
The kinds of projects/tasks our interns work on:

• Creating apps using Python
• Developing automation
• Learning/applying languages to use on software development projects such as:
  • Python, Javascript (React), Java (and/or Kotlin), or similar languages
• Using AI, scripting and/or automation to solve business problems
• Creating reusable and versatile services for consumption by a web application
• Building accessible and beautiful user interfaces
• Dependency management and maintenance projects

Workplace Immersion:

• Experience working in a product-driven, agile, software engineering organization
• Full onboarding to our company and organization with training on our products and tools
• Opportunities to learn, innovate, build, get feedback, give feedback and collaborate
• We offer a competitive, hourly rate

Preferred Qualifications:

• Learning agility
• Is interested in technology engineering
• Is interested in improving team productivity
• Basic computer science knowledge
• Beginner to intermediate Python, Javascript, etc

Work Status:
Hybrid

Age Requirements:
Must be 18 years or older on June 9, 2025.

Company Mission:
SPS Commerce creates the technology that allows all retail trading partners to talk with each other so that goods can move from one place to another without delay. Retail trading partners include: Retailers (Companies that sell goods Target, Walmart, Best Buy, Costco); Suppliers (Companies that make goods: think of any of your favorite brands); Logistics companies (companies that ship goods: FedEx, UPS).

Company Culture:
We are a learning culture. Interns will be integrated into teams just like any associate level software engineer would be but they’ll have some additional layers of support. They will have a manager who sets their projects and tasks for the summer. The manager will be in touch with them regularly and schedule weekly 1:1 meetings. They will have a mentor who will be the student’s day-to-day contact. They will have a Tech Mate. A TechMate is someone who works in Tech but is not on their direct team. The goal with this relationship is to expose the student to another area of Tech. Last, they will have an intern coordinator who will bring the entire intern cohort together for twice a week intern cohort activities that focus on professional development, building a professional network, and connecting with other interns.

We want students to feel that their work is meaningful and impactful to our business.

Position Summary:
We will have 4 different roles:

1. Network and Data Center: Students will actively participate in maintaining and enhancing our network footprint by working on a plethora of projects, such as our Wifi improvements, Datacenter expansion, and Environment migrations.
2. System Operations: The student will become part of the SysOps team by working on the same operational task as all the other L1/L2 SysOps engineers. This initials a wide variety of task on the multiple tools the team uses to help keep SPS up and running. They’ll also be in scrums, writing code and deploying their project to production.
3. Trading Partner Development Engineering: Students will directly participate in the in the open, collaborative, and energetic lifecycle of software development. This lifecycle consists of planning, designing, implementing, testing, and deploying software solutions. Students will also have the opportunity to interact with internal and external customers to generate feedback that can be incorporated back into the product.
4. Microsoft Development: Students will become a part of the MMT Tech Team in the same role as our App Engineers. This will include a wide variety of tasks including installing new client environments, completing environment upgrades, and troubleshooting issues with environments beyond the scope of the Technical Support Teams.

Workplace Immersion:

1. Network and Data Center: Interns will be exposed to the Infrastructure that powers robust Datacenters. This includes an overview of how hardware, such as storage arrays and SDWAN routers, and software, such as VMware NSX, are used to create a scalable, redundant & secured environment to host shared services and production solutions.
2. Sys Ops: The student will be exposed to several of the monitoring and observably tools used across the tech org. They will be contributing to a full stack web application using either Java or Python and React to add new features that increase implementation efficiencies and add to services that automate business processes.
3. TPD Engineering: A vibrant, progressive, fast-paced learning environment in which employees collaborate to solve problems and build solutions. The student will be contributing to a full stack web application using Python and React to add new features that increase implementation efficiencies and add to services that automate business processes.
4. MS Development: The student will learn about installing and upgrading new environments. They will be exposed to Technical Support assistance ticketing systems and practices. Networking, a little bit of Powershell, Microsoft SQL, Rest and Odata API, exposure to Windows Server environments (including IIS and Windows Services), Active Directory and Azure directory are many of the systems and tools they will be exposed to.

Preferred Qualifications:
The skills below are only desired skills. Students should not be scared to apply for our roles if they do not possess every single skill.

1. Network and Data Center: The student should have a good understanding of network devices, such as firewalls, routers, switches and VPN devices.
2. Sys Ops: The desire to learn new things, working with remote teammates, and to work alone. Some basic exposure to programming in any language like Python, NodeJS, React, Angular, JavaScript, Golang, C/C++, SQL, Pascal, Android or IOS app development is required. Though it is not required. The student should have strong math and analytic skills, and possess effective written and verbal communication skills. Experience or interest in containerization and/or virtualization is a plus.
3. TPD: The student should have strong math and analytic skills, and possess effective written and verbal communication skills. The student should also have had basic exposure to programming in any language such as Python, Java, NodeJS, React, Angular, JavaScript, Golang, C/C++, SQL, Pascal, Android or IOS app development. Familiarity with development environments, containerization/virtualization, and code management with GitHub is a plus but not required.
4. MS Development: Some SQL (Microsoft best, but not required) skills, API knowledge, Azure, and Networking exposure will all be helpful skills to get started with this Team. .NET exposure would be a huge plus. The comfort of working with an entirely remote team will be critical.

Work Status:
Hybrid

Age Requirements:
We have no age requirement but the student must be authorized to legally work in the United States.

Company Mission: 
General Mills makes food the world loves. Our family of iconic and well-known brands includes Cheerios, Totino’s, Nature Valley, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Annie’s, Blue Buffalo, and so many more.

Company Culture: 
At General Mills, we have a core set of values that we strive to live up to every day. For example, one of our core values is “Grow and Inspire”: this means we seek to constantly learn and grow, inspire people to be their best, and focus on building diverse teams that reflect the world around us. Another one of our values is “Play to Win”: this means always putting the consumer first, delivering market-leading innovation, and creating exceptional value for our consumers, customers and shareholders.

Position Summary: 
Technology at General Mills is all about supporting our company and helping the business to succeed every day. As you might imagine, every part of our business requires technology: Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, Sales, and HR are just a few of the many business functions you may have a chance to work with. We provide each intern with their own project, focused on a specific technology and business area, to own from start to finish during their summer. In the past, we have had interns work on things like data visualization, web development, process design and automation, proof of concepts for new technologies like chatbots, virtual reality, machine learning, and many more. We do not yet have our summer 2025 intern projects finalized, but we will be working hard to collect and confirm all projects this spring, well in advance of the summer.

Workplace Immersion: 
Interns are assigned an individual project to own, and get to learn new technologies related to their project as well as much more about the business area that they are supporting (Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance, HR, etc). Interns have a great support system to make sure they have what they need to be successful: a Manager, a Technical Buddy/Mentor, and a supportive network of colleagues and peers. We provide onboarding, training, and fun events to help Aspirations interns learn how to do their jobs and meet one another. We also have combined events with our college interns, such as our Senior Leader speaker series, where all interns can meet one another and learn more about the company from one of our leaders. At the end of the summer, all interns present on the work that they did for their projects and discuss what they learned through the experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
Some experience learning/working with any programming language would be very helpful, though not required. Candidates should be self-motivated and excited to learn new things. Openness to collaborating virtually through a variety of channels (email, chat, video call, etc) is key, as our Technology team members like to leverage our flexible work arrangement and work from home regularly.

Work Status: 
Hybrid

Age Requirements:
Must be 18 years old by June 9, 2025.

Company Mission: 
Since 1880, Securian Financial has been committed to providing insurance, investment and retirement solutions that give families the confidence to focus on what’s truly valuable: banking memories with those who matter most. We provide financial products and services to four key markets through a variety of distribution channels. Some examples of our products are individual life insurance, group life insurance, investments, financial planning services, and retirement plans. We’re driven by our purpose: helping our customers build secure tomorrows. It’s why our company was founded, and it’s why we get up and come to work everyday. We do what we do to enable our customers to celebrate family, every day, no matter how you define it.

Company Culture: 
At our core is a set of values — values that we live and work with, and also share with our customers. These values guide how we do business and how we conduct our work: trust, strength, integrity, quality, respect, and community. To stimulate greatness inside and outside work, we invest in your aspirations, provide meaningful experiences and offer opportunities to give back to our community. Our intern will work with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to solve important problems. Many times, our associates describe “the people” as what makes our company great!

Position Summary: Our intern will receive valuable, applicable work experience and gain exposure to many of Securian’s business systems. The majority of the internship will be spent working on development teams developing, testing, and maintaining new and existing systems. Projects vary based upon real time business needs. Interns will receive training and coaching, based on their background and project work needs. Creating engaging customer experiences, while ensuring our customers’ data is safeguarded is core to how we operate. Securian’s engineering teams use a variety of technologies in maintaining Securian’s competitive edge. Our intern will be a part of a team that strives towards continuous advancements and improvements to meet our business and customer needs.

Workplace Immersion: 
Our interns will be placed within the Enterprise Technology division. This division is responsible for all areas of technology at Securian Financial. The interns will be placed on an agile team within this department. Each intern is assigned a leader and job coach to help train, mentor, and make connections within Securian. Technologies used will vary by assignment, but typically will include Java, JavaScript, Spring, SQL, and AWS.

Preferred Qualifications: 
Strong analytical and design skills, creative problem-solving skills and high attention to detail. Sound verbal and written communication skills in order to effectively work as a member of a team. Desire to continuously learn new things and contribute in a collaborative environment. Ability to take the initiative, have strong sense of urgency and willing to seek help when needed.

Work Status:
Hybrid

Age Requirements:
Must be 18 years old by June 9, 2025.