I am helping Stanford ATI to do fellow recruitment this year. In this post I will dump some information about the program, so I can link to this from other places later.

What is Stanford ATI?

ATI is a student organization in Stanford. Accompanied by a course in enigeering school, ATI sends out 6 to 8 students to Asia companies do global internship every year in summer since 1999. They also select the same ammount of local students to help Stanford students to finish their overseas programs.

Local students will team with Stanford students to attend summer internship and help with the annual conference. This is an oppertunity for local students to cooperate with foreign students and learn how to do an overseas program.

Who am I?

My name is Chen Luyi. I am graduating PhD student in SJTU. I am one of the ATI co-directors in Shanghai this year. I will be responsible for seeking qualified local students and help them perform well in the program. I was an ATI fellow two years ago.

How to apply?

This is not a job recruitment. So a formal resume is not necessary. But if you send me, I will read it carefully. What’s more, I would like you to write a short application letter including the following points:

  1. What’s you unique qualification? This is important to standing out from your peers and forming the teams afterwards.
  2. Do you have any experience to show us that you have great understanding of entrepreneurship and full of ideas? We want you to provide more details in this section.
  3. Please describe a new idea about anything, for example a new web2.0 startup or anything else. I would like to know how you refine your ideas. So it doesn’t have to be a finished proposal. Only some analysis is enough.
  4. Tell me what have you learned about ATI and its history. Yes, I know we haven’t prepare a good homepage for you. But if you want to join us, you should collect some information about the program first. There are lots of tools out there, like google and technorati, etc. After you have done these homework, and you still want to join. Great, welcome!

The application to me is limited to SJTU students. We will select 2 students from SJTU this year. (My email is lychen@sjtu.edu.cn)

Where to get more information?

ATI home http://www.stanford.edu/group/ati/
My unofficial thoughts http://www.chenluyi.com
Forum http://groups.google.com/group/ati2006sjtu

So any open question should post to ati2006sjtu group. Before you post, please search old posts first.

Disclaimer: What I wrote about ATI in my blog only represent my personal thoughts. They are not official annoucement from Stanford ATI.