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Recently, there has been a major focus on education and training from within the Drupal community – and with good reason. Dries himself has emphasized the importance of training-related initiatives on several occasions, since the future of Drupal hinges on constantly fostering new talent. One of the ideal ways to advance the Drupal community is by mentoring new individuals (developers, designers, users, etc.). There are a number of awesome endeavors like the Google Summer of Code that are tremendously beneficial to the Drupal project. There are also Drupal-centric consultancies, like Mediacurrent, who may have implemented their own Drupal summer intern program or others that have been contemplating. We just finished our first internship program, and this post will share some thoughts from our experience.

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