Program Description
The Extreme Blue™ program is IBM's premier internship program for top-notch students pursuing technology research, software development and MBA degrees. It is an incubator for talent, technology and business innovation. Through the program, interns have submitted over 500 patent disclosures (Sept 2007), helping to create solutions for key clients and bring-to-market the next generation of IBM products.Extreme Blue challenges project teams of technical and MBA interns (along with their technical and business mentors) to Start Something BIG in just 12 weeks by developing new high growth businesses starting with a promising idea, market, or technology.

Its core attributes are the cool projects, innovative teams and dynamic places.

Please find more information about the internship program on our website at www.ibm.com/extremeblue or www.ibm.com/cn/ibm/crl.

IBM China Research Lab (CRL) introduced the program into China and has hosted it jointly with China Development Lab, SWG, UR and HR since then. Every year the program receives thousands of applications from China universities and finally about 20 excellent students were invited to research and development lab working on cool projects from early July to Sept. Currently, we have over 100 China Extreme Blue Alumni and some of them have joined IBM.