Placement
Hawaii, Fiji, Thailand, New Zealand

Placement Choices
On the application form, applicants will be asked to choose between several placement options for each country. Please note that it is acceptable to skip between categories when choosing topics. You should be willing to accept any of the placements listed. Those applicants interested in interning in more than one country, or in more than one site within a country, should contact our staff.

Pricing Schedule

FOUR-WEEKS ~ $1895
EIGHT-WEEKS ~ $2970
TWELVE-WEEKS ~ $3850
THIRTEEN-WEEKS & UP ~ Contact I.C.E. Staff

Expenses Covered
Your I.C.E. Internships tuition covers: housing, in-country support, office support, Lonely Planet Guidebook, airport pick-up, monthly bus pass (if applicable), introduction to internship site. Extended placements (3 1/2 months to 12 months) are available for a discounted fee.

Expenses Not Covered
Round-trip airfare to internship location(s), taxi and other ground travel apart from bus fare, academic credit fees (optional).

Internship Placement Conditions
It is not in our interest, nor the interest of our sponsoring organizations, for you to leave an internship site early. We ask that you work through the challenges that may accompany your internship, including: personality conflicts, distaste of host country's culture/food, loneliness, and other unforeseen challenges. We do not offer refunds except in cases where gross misconduct on the part of an internship host has taken place. The refund amount will not exceed 50% of fees paid to I.C.E. An internship is a "real world" undertaking in a professional environment. As with most paid jobs, you will be expected to perform at a high level. And, just like a paid job, you will have to negotiate some of your job duties as well handle any differences you may have with individual managers or company policies. Your I.C.E. contact person is there to help. However, he or she has an equal obligation to listen to and assist the internship host as well as the intern. The internships that work best are those in which the intern enters with realistic expectations about what a host can provide. While it is important to ask the right questions before arrival to formulate a general impression about the content of the internship, it is equally important to arrive with a mind open to the experience that presents itself. Interns should expect a shifting set of responsibilities that may vary from start to finish.

I.C.E. remains independent of internship providers. We have chosen hosts based on positive feedback offered from former interns; for new positions, we use our best judgment based on the host's reputation and our on-site assessment. We act on the information presented to us and try to provide interns with an accurate portrait of life within a given organization or company. We cannot guarantee or promise anything about a given internship owing to the host's autonomy from I.C.E. We can only do our best to mediate on your behalf and to portray what our hosts convey to us in informing you about the internship.

Further, host organizations reserve the right to terminate an internship placement at any time for any reason. Where said termination of the arranged internship has resulted from an intern's misconduct or poor performance, the participant/intern may be dropped from the program without refund. If an internship host, for whatever reason, terminates the position owing to concerns outside of the intern's performance, this will not void the present contract (except by request of the intern). I.C.E. will then make an effort to arrange for an alternate placement for the intern, taking into account the stated preferences of options, location, etc.

The maintenance of I.C.E.'s working relationship with each host organization is critical, and I.C.E. expects each intern to complete the duties and responsibilities with energetic participation and a strong collaborative attitude. Interns are encouraged to remain committed to their selected internship and to the associated responsibilities for the duration of the internship period. Moreover, interns are encouraged to discuss with their designated I.C.E. contact person(s) any disjuncture or dissatisfaction with the internship conditions. I.C.E. support staff stands ready to assist the intern with any difficulties he/she may experience with the location, housing arrangements, or the duties of the internship itself. It is the intern's responsibility to contact staff immediately should a problem arise--this includes a phone call or e-mail message to the Hawaii office. If an intern fails to show up for his/her duties without contacting a staff member, she/he may be dropped from the program.