“You’re looking for somebody that has some usable skills, but we can also help them grow those skills. We have a student this year from the UDream program at Carnegie Mellon. It’s for minority architects, and we assign them a project where they can develop a whole series of skills. ... I’m starting to see this incredible influx of young people calling to come here from all over because Pittsburgh is now hip and cool.”
—Rob Pfaffmann, principal, Pfaffmann + Associates
“Our best interns have come from Slippery Rock because they have an intense program with an intern adviser. The one this summer is from Penn State. If they have a program that really looks for results, we like that better than places that seem to tell their students to just go do an internship.”
—Becky Rodgers, executive director, Neighbors in the Strip
“We have programs with a number of local schools, including Point Park, Allegheny College, the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State. But we also work with a number of national schools. …Our publisher and editor-in-chief, John Robinson Block, is a graduate of Yale, and the Block family has endowed a program to send a number of Yale interns to the Post-Gazette every year.”
—Chris Chamberlain, president, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette