Step into a corporate workspace.
Build your professional portfolio.
Launch your career.
To prepare college students to be competitive applicants for Summer 2027 corporate internships through immersive, hands-on experience.
The Summer 2026 Career Simulation Lab pilot program is designed for students who have completed one year of college or university and want to prepare for corporate careers.
The program consists of these elements:
Participants meet in a corporate-style office immersed in a (simulated) professional corporate culture.
Participants act out company roles. During the Summer 2026 pilot, particpants will operate as junior consultants at a fictional consulting firm, allowing them to tackle diverse business problems.
Each session is focused on real world portfolio projects for students to work on. Participants use open source online data, present results of their projects, revise their work based on feedback, and add the projects to their online career portfolios.
Students conduct informational interviews with mentors matched to student interests.
Participants follow business processes by participating in onboarding and offboarding, corporate training, one-on-one meetings, staff meetings, and review and approval processes.
What you will gain:
Traditional Career Coaching: Create or update your resume, LinkedIn profile, and online career portfolio.
Targeted Skill Development: Identify a skill needed to compete for a 2027 internship and work on a related portfolio project.
A Professional Reference: Upon successful completion of the program, the program director can serve as a reference for future job applications.
Career Exploration: Learn about different careers, act out the job of a consultant, and learn more from mentors across various industries.
Core Professional Skills: Practice some of the key skills that employers say recent college graduates lack. Summer 2026 will emphasize verbal communication, team work, and technical skills.
Session 1: June 9, 10, 11 and June 16, 17, 18 (6 days)
Session 2: July 20-24 (5 days)
Hours: 10am - 4:30pm
Morning Location:
Los Gatos Public Library
100 Villa Ave, Los Gatos, CA 95030
Afternoon Location:
Office Evolution
16185 Los Gatos Blvd #205, Los Gatos, CA 95032
Cost:
$300 per person (summer 2026 only)
Your payment will be spent only on pilot program expenses.
Devices:
Participants must bring their own laptop each day and pay for any software subscription they need for their personal portfolio project.
Participants:
4-8 student participants per session
For the 2026 pilot program, the participants can propose their own project or choose a project created by the director. It should be a project related to a career you want or a skill you want to learn.
For the pilot program, you will be playing the role of a junior consultant at a fictional consulting company working on a project for a fictional client.
Example client projects:
Your client is a small business owner. Find a poorly designed or unattractive website for a real small business. Redesign it using the web publishing software of your choice.
Your client is a 75 year old woman suffering from chronic back pain. Her doctor recommends the Intracept procedure, but she wants a more detailed risk / benefit analysis. Review and analyze publicly available data and prepare a factual presentation for her.
Your client wants to invest in a rental property. Part 1: Do a simple analysis to determine how much income it will generate after expenses if your client takes out a traditional mortgage at the standard mortgage interest rate. Part 2: Design a floor plan and budget to convert the garage to a bedroom/bathroom suite, pave additional parking in the side yard for 1 car, and add a storage shed in the backyard.
Your client is a startup pro-football agency that wants to identify potential clients before they are drafted into the NFL. The client does not trust the draft metrics everyone else uses. Use open source data to identify the five most important variables and create a draft metric based on only those five.
Use the Roboto.ai engine to analyze open source robot or drone datasets from real companies. (Project still under development.)
Why are there two locations?
Mainly to make use of the advantages of both locations. But also to keep costs low for the Pilot Program.
The Los Gatos Library has an upstairs area that, besides all the books, is setup like a corporate workplace with unassigned open seating. This location will be used mainly for participants to work on their projects. It has a technology lab and two meeting rooms with tables and chairs but no white board or monitor. The library is near clothing stores, restaurants, cafes, 7-11, parks, a public pool, and Los Gatos Creek Trail. Participants are encouraged to arrive early to enjoy the downtown Los Gatos location before the session starts.
The afternoon location, Office Evolution, is a co-working space with a reception desk, two meeting rooms, free coffee and tea, cubicles and offices. It is very quiet, and other professionals will be working there, too. We will be using their 16-person conference room for collaborative afternoon sessions.
What will participants do for lunch?
No lunch is provided. Participants can find food at 7-11 or dozens of cafes and restaurants within walking distance. There are reasonable options like bagel and sandwich shops. But it would be very easy to bring a lunch and eat outdoors in one of the parks. The Pageant Grounds park is right behind the library and has clean picnic tables and low, wide cement walls to sit on.
What kind of prep do I need to do before starting the program?
The preparation is built into the application and interview process. Participants need to find at least two job postings of jobs that are similar to an internship they'd like to have in summer 2027. From these job descriptions, the partipant will identify a skill they need to learn to be a more competitive applicant. For example, there may be a type of software they need to learn. Together with the program director, they will decide on a a project to help them develop the skill.
Do I need access to a shared Google drive for this program?
The program has a Google Workspace setup like a business. On the first day, participants will go through an onboarding process that includes IT setup to access the Google workspace and get their @tomorrowinterns.com email. Many companies use Google workspace, and we will follow standard practices used by disciplined startups and small businesses. On the last day of the session, there will be an offboarding process. Participants will be given time to download or transfer their work and shared resources such as templates and lists of career resources before losing access to the Drive and email.
What does it mean to "simulate" a corporate culture?
Participants will learn corporate cultural practices similar to a big company and will practice them in the afternoon workspace. These include unspoken rules such as food/drink in the workplace, cellphone use, dress code, when/how to interrupt someone who is working, when/how to escalate a concern, how to express appreciation of others, what to do when you are unable to meet a due date, etc. The program will also use business workflows and follow IT practices similar to a small company.
What do I need to bring with me?
Participants are required to bring a laptop or Chromebook each day. A backpack is recommended. Don't leave it in your hot car during lunch!
How do you protect participants' safety and privacy?
All meeting rooms used for the program have at least two glass walls, and the people in the rooms will be within full view of other library or office occupants. This adds a degree of safety to one-on-one meetings. Both locations are in safe neighborhoods.
Participants will all link to one another's LinkedIn profiles, but no personal information (email, phone number, etc.) will be shared during any program activities. Application materials, interview notes, and other sensitive information is stored in a restricted drive not accessible by participants.