CS4016: SunStart Program General SunStart is an industrial placement scheme run by Sun Microsystems, and supported by Scottish Enterprise. Students accepted on this programme work for Sun for a year, usually in the USA. It appears that SunStart are no longer offering the substantial numbers of placements they did before 2007. What follows below describes the situation before 2007. Aberdeen students who have returned from SunStart have described it as a wonderful experience. On a personal level, its a chance to live in and explore the USA for a year, on a salary comparable to what many graduates get; plus in many cases students come back with much more self-confidence, after seeing how much they can contribute to a company like Sun. And on an intellectual level, its a chance to "learn by doing" at one of the leading IT companies around; I suspect most of our returned students think they learned more in their SunStart year than in their three previous years at university. Although joint honours CS/Maths students cannot normally do placements, we will try to make special arrangements for such students if they are interested and if Sun wants them. SunStart 2006/2007 (July 2006 - July 2007) Number of internship roles open: 6. Application deadline: 31 Jan 2006. As usual, the department internally screens candidates before allowing them to formally apply for SunStart positions. Therefore, if you are interested in joining the SunStart program 2006/2007, send your Placement organiser your CV and a cover letter BEFORE 23 Dec 2005. Please explicitly use "[SunStart]" as the beginning of the title of your email. Qualified and interested students should submit their CVs to josie.martinez@sun.com. In-person interviews (about 30 mminutes) are anticipated to take place between 1 Feb 2006 and 15 Feb 2006. Offers of employment: no later than 28 Feb 2006. Eligibity See CS4016: Information for Prospective Students