Hane also had the support of the Berkshire Interns program as he worked through his 2019 internship, and attended plenty of BI networking events. With opportunities to attend summer activities in the Berkshires for free while gaining full-time work experience, “It was a great mix,” he said. “BI is an incredibly unique program in that it provides real good hearty experience for students in careers, and at the same time gives them the tools to succeed in that capacity.”

Hane and the 1Berkshire team clicked, and he ended up doing remote support work for the organization in early 2020, then a remote summer internship, which he wrote about for the 1Berkshire site.

“While working from home certainly did provide its own new set of challenges, it was easy enough to adjust to a remote internship,” Hane said. “Through one-on-one calls and Zoom team meetings, I was able to learn new skills and work with new programs to carry out any novel sets of tasks, but most of what I had learned the previous summer transferred fairly well. I was able to meet the challenges head-on and keep working.”