Booz Allen Hamilton

2021 Summer Games Internship

Posted on: 15 Mar 2021

Mclean, VA

Job Description

2021 Summer Games Internship

The Challenge:

The Summer Games is an innovative internship program that attracts some of the nations best and brightest students. The goal is to develop a breakthrough idea or solution for one of our clients most pressing, complex, and multidimensional problems while developing valuable consulting skills. This competitive and collaborative program attracts thousands of applicants each year. Simulating a real-world startup accelerator environment, the interns are divided into teams, each working on a different challenge project. Throughout the Games, interns receive mentorship from senior leaders, solve problems using Booz Allens products and unique engagement models, and leverage the power of collaboration in a virtual environment. The summer culminates with a final Challenge Cup competition and presentation to senior leadership. A past winner took the challenge of helping blind individuals navigate by using new technology and developing a business and market penetration plan. Teams have also helped develop an app that gives military commanders an easy way to track real-time and open-source information about developing situations, including sudden attacks, fighting human trafficking, and even tracking the spread of a disease worldwide. This position requires 100% remote delivery.

You Have:

-Experience with conducting research

-Ability to work independently and in teams
-Ability to work remotely 100% of the time

-Ability to obtain a security clearance

-Scheduled to obtain a BA or BS degree between Winter 2021 through Spring/Summer 2024

Nice If You Have:

-Ability to produce technical documentation and create design artifacts

-Possession of excellent critical thinking and analytical skills

-Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information

About Booz Allen:

At Booz Allen, were empowering people to change the worldstarting with you.

On our team, youll enhance the security, economic well-being, health, and safety of people at home and around the globe. Were setting (and raising) the bar in analytics, consulting, Cyber, digital solutions, and engineering & science. We do it by finding the brightest minds and giving them a place to collaborate, take risks, and get even brighter.

Our focus on people isnt corporate jargon: its essential to our success. Its the reason Fortune, Forbes, Corporate Equality Index, and other organizations have consistently rated us a best place to work. And its how were going to leave the world better than we found it. Because products alone cant create progressbut people can. And our people do.

Were an EOE that empowers our peopleno matter their race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristicto fearlessly drive change.

Booz Allen Hamilton

McLean, VA

We are a global firm of approximately 26,300 diverse, passionate, and exceptional people driven to excel, do right, and realize positive change in everything we do.

We bring bold thinking and a desire to be the best in our work in consulting, analytics, digital solutions, engineering, and cyber, and with industries ranging from defense to health to energy to international development.

We celebrate and value diversity in all its forms; it’s something we truly value as a multicultural community of problem solvers. We believe in corporate and individual citizenship that make our communities better places for all.

We have one guiding purpose—to empower people to change the world. Our founder, Edwin Booz said it best: “Start with character… and fear not the future.” We bring a ferocious integrity to not only train our clients to tackle the problems they face today, but to help them change the status quo for tomorrow. Each day, we imagine, invent, and deliver new ways to better serve our employees, our clients, and the world. 

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