Student Employment & Internship Opportunities

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Student Assistant Positions

Each semester, the ATLAS Institute engages hourly student assistants to fill a variety of roles. We encourage interested students to email us: cuatlas@colorado.edu.

    • Assisting students in courses. 
    • Students who have taken the course previously are preferred.
    • Manage students and assist with questions / homework help in the BTU Lab
    • Maintain lab including: Reorder, stock supplies, clean and troubleshoot lab equipment and general cleaning 
    • Teach workshops and facilitate with others teaching workshops
    • Administer orientations and train laser masters
    • Create content for the lab including social media, documentation, posters and projects
    • Assist in maintaining culture creating a welcoming, inclusive and diverse lab environment
    • Update ATLAS website
    • Curate and post social media
    • Take photographs and record video
    • Promote upcoming shows in the B2 Center for Media, Arts and Performance
    • Promote ATLAS Speaker Series events
    • Post ATLAS events to campus calendar
    • Edit stories and posts for website
    • Photo and video editing
    • Graphic design
    • Support ATLAS Expo and similar institute events
    • Upload and maintain videos on Vimeo and YouTube
    • Support email marketing
    • Help support undergraduate recruiting as a BS-CTD Ambassador ($19/hr)
    • Check-out of materials
    • Answering email and phone
    • Answering student and visitor questions
    • Cleaning and organization
    • General equipment setup and maintenance
    • Assisting with events hosted at ATLAS

    The B2 Tech Staff is a unique team of individuals who are excited to connect with media and cutting edge technology in a variety of production platforms including projection, lighting and sound. The positions will work approximately 10-12 hours per week (some evenings and weekends required). Work-study is preferred.

    Duties: 

    • Mixing and recording audio 
    • Programming and operating lighting control systems 
    • Recording and capturing video/still camera footage 
    • Projection mapping and image warping 

    Qualifications: Experience and interest in the following software platforms are encouraged.

    • Ableton
    • Reaper
    • Max MSP
    • Dante Controller/Virtual Soundcard 
    • Pro Tools
    • Garage Band
    • Logic
    • Q-Lab
    • Resolume
    • Touch Designer
    • Isadora 

    Global Sustainability Scholars (GSS)

    GSS Fellows (Paid, graduate students)

    GSS brings together the brightest young professionals from under-represented groups to work with leading scientists on critical sustainability challenges that will face communities and environments in the future. The program offers 10-week, paid professional development and research opportunities for graduate students who are interested in sustainability/environmental sciences. 

    Responsibilities: Co-author a manuscript focused on Environmental Data Science (EDS). Contribute to educational research through generating research questions, data collection and analysis, literature review, collaborative text development, and data visualization. Participants will assist with program assessment and evaluation of the Earth Data Analytics - Foundations Professional Certificate, working with data collected from certificate students (2018-2023).

    Skills: Participants will develop fundamental environmental data science skills in popular programming languages (R & Python), open science best practices (GitHub), surveying tools (Qualtrics), and statistical techniques including Rasch measurement to analyze Likert surveys. Word processing and ability to work in a collaborative team setting including the Google suite and Slack are desired.

    Job Description and How to Apply

    Posted on 11/14/2023

    Fiske Planetarium

    Exhibits Assistant (Paid, P/T)

    At Fiske Planetarium we create innovative, immersive, and inclusive experiences to engage and inspire communities by connecting science, technology, and the arts, and it is our student staff who help make it all possible. From handling administrative work, to selling tickets, to leading live shows, to building exhibits, it’s a group of passionate and hard-working students like you that help us run our daily operations and connect with our audiences of learners, artists, scientists, technologists, and community leaders.  Fiske is currently accepting applications for student positions for an Exhibits Assistant. Apply here by Wednesday, September 27th at 11:59 pm. If you require additional time for any reason, then please email us. You must be a CU student to apply. The start dates for these positions are flexible, but nominally by October 5th and would continue for a year minimum. 

    Detailed Job Description

    Posted on 09/18/2023