Xtern Fall Finalist Day

Xtern Finalist Day 2021 Sets Up Largest Class Yet

TechPoint recruits hundreds of the best and brightest young people from colleges and universities around the country every year for a chance to interview with fast-growing and influential Indiana tech companies. At stake for these students are full-time internships for summer 2022, free housing and a place in the elite and lauded Xtern program.  This […]
The Speak Easy

How coworking spaces like the Speak Easy help launch new tech companies

It takes a special kind of bravery to start your own company. The endeavor comes with a never ending stream of challenges, complications, and proverbial hills to climb. To overcome these obstacles, it’s helpful to have a strong support system—a community you can lean on when the going gets tough. The Speak Easy coworking space […]

Making A Home In Central Indiana’s Growing Tech Ecosystem

The people who make up the tech scene here in the Crossroads of America have many faces. Some are those of born and raised Hoosiers, those who grew up to the sounds of John Mellencamp, watching games at Assembly Hall, and enjoying pork tenderloins the size of their face. But many are the faces of […]
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Tech’s Growing Yield In Agriculture & Food Systems

Technology is playing an ever-increasing role in the world of agriculture and food systems. However, the current crop of Indiana tech companies making a noticeable impact in these areas might surprise you because they aren’t the conventional farming products and services you might think of when it comes to agriculture. “I’m seeing companies coming out of […]

New Verizon program prepares small businesses for increasingly digital world

Small businesses strive to endure and benefit from the constant change we all face in today’s marketplace. Verizon is working to help make the drastic changes the economy and our society have undergone since March 2020, more manageable and productive for small businesses through its new Small Business Digital Ready Program that launched September 13. […]
Xtern Leaders from the Xtern Class of 2021

Reflections On Xtern 2021

Thoughts on a summer like no other from student leaders Every year in the Xtern program the TechPoint Team selects a handful of students to serve as Xtern Leaders. Their purpose is to create meaningful and intentional opportunities, strengthen communication lines and keep a close pulse on overall engagement and sentiment throughout Xtern’s ten-week program.  […]

Xterns honored for exemplifying core values

With the 2021 Xtern program having come to a close, we take time to reflect on the unique summer internship experiences of 150 top performing college students from across the country. These promising young tech and business skilled students have overcome many challenges during the past year-and-a-half, and have now come out of their 10-week […]