Carviou keeps calm and carries on with exclusive FOX Sports internship during COVID-19
In the winter of 2020, Marley Carviou ’22 landed a summer internship most can only dream of. With her plans set to complete an internship with FOX Sports in Los Angeles in the summer of 2020, COVID-19 derailed any chance of fun under the California sun. But there was a rainbow on the other side of stormy clouds when Marley’s Los Angeles internship was rescheduled for the summer of 2021. Meanwhile, she was offered a virtual internship in place of her planned trip.
Marley completed a virtual four-week studio programming internship made possible by “FOX NFL Sunday” co-host and Coe Trustee Curt Menefee ’87. The internship is exclusively available to Kohawks through Coe’s C3: Creativity, Careers, Community center. C3 facilitates networking and internship opportunities between alumni and students. With nearly 4,000 alumni in the Cedar Rapids corridor alone and thousands more across the globe, Coe’s efforts have been recognized by The Princeton Review as one of the Top 25 Best Schools for Internships in the U.S. for three years in a row.
“I’ve never been in a newsroom, and I’ve never done anything behind a camera other than the simple stuff. It definitely opened my eyes a lot more. You don’t realize how many people it takes to do one small thing and how many facets of the job there are. We talked to music composers and the people who do the camera work and the editing. It was very cool to see how these high-end producers and top executives led the teams and how they got to where they are,” Marley said.
During the virtual program, interns attended master classes, networked with the staff of FOX Sports and worked on group projects creating ads. Marley added the best part of the internship was the connections she made with the staff of FOX Sports and her fellow interns. Working with people from all over the country and with different backgrounds presented her with networking opportunities she didn’t have before the internship.
“[The people from the master classes] were willing to give out their contact information. I found a lot of them on LinkedIn really easily and have been able to connect with them from there. It’s just great because now in the future if I need help, I have those connections. I’m very thankful to Curt for providing me with the opportunity to partake in the internship,” Marley said.
Marley will travel to Los Angeles this summer to participate in the eight-week internship as originally planned. The paid position with FOX Sports includes travel expenses to and from California, the cost of summer housing, transportation and meals all provided thanks to Curt’s generosity.
Read more about this internship opportunity made possible by Curt at www.coe.edu/marley-carviou-fox-internship.