T1 IT Camp — An Intensive Program for Students and Graduates with Internship Opportunities
T1 IT Camp is a free educational intensive program for students from all over Russia. Online learning, team project work, an in-person competition, and paid internships for the top finalists. Start your IT career with the T1 team.
T1 IT Camp is a practical intensive program for students that combines teamwork on real cases with a paid internship. Participants go through the full cycle of IT product development: from understanding the task to developing a solution and final defense.
How It Works
The program takes place in the format of an intensive big tech shift.
May-June
Online
Application and Onboarding at T1
Participant registration, testing, onboarding of successful finalists, and team assignment.
July-September
Online
Team Project Work
Project work on a T1 business case: meeting the team, understanding the task, and developing a solution with mentor support.
October
Hybrid Format
Project Defense
Final competition between teams: defending developed solutions, networking, and sharing experiences in the IT Camp atmosphere.
Why Participate
We have been running the IT Camp for the third year to allow students from any city in the country to try their hand at large IT projects and decide on a career path with the support of T1 experts.
Team Project Work (Online Format)
You will be officially employed by the T1 IT holding company for an internship and will meet your project team. Together, you will work on a real business task. Over 2.5 months, you will go through the full cycle of IT solution development with mentor support. Masterclasses, meetings with experts, and immersion in company processes will help you develop a successful prototype.
Solution Defense in the Final (Hybrid Format)
With your team, you will develop a product prototype and, in the final, present your solution to business stakeholders. Finalists will receive certificates of participation in the project.
Specializations
- Applied Administration (DevOps)
- Manual Functional Testing
- Backend Development (Java)
- System Analysis
- Frontend Development (React)
What We Expect from Participants
If you are a university student, interested in IT trends, and dream of working in a large IT company — you are definitely on the right path with us.
Applied Administration (DevOps)
- Studying in the 1st-3rd year of Bachelor's, 1st-4th year of Specialist, or 1st year of Master's programs in technical and IT specialties;
- Desire to undertake a paid remote internship;
- Willingness to dedicate 30-40 hours per week to the project;
- Understanding of Grafana, Zabbix, Prometheus principles;
- Basic Linux proficiency, knowledge of commands for OS interaction;
- Basic SQL knowledge (DML, DDL);
- Knowledge of microservice architecture principles;
- Understanding of the ELK, Jaeger, Fluentd technology stack.
Manual Functional Testing
- Studying in the 1st-3rd year of Bachelor's, 1st-4th year of Specialist, or 1st year of Master's programs in technical and IT specialties;
- Software testing theory: understanding types, methods, and techniques of testing;
- Understanding of software development models (Agile, Waterfall, etc.);
- Working in the Linux command line;
- Experience reading logs, analyzing errors;
- Understanding of TCP/IP stack principles;
- Knowledge of REST architecture, SOAP protocol;
- Knowledge of SQL basics.
Backend Development (Java)
- Studying in the 1st-3rd year of Bachelor's, 1st-4th year of Specialist, or 1st year of Master's programs in technical and IT specialties;
- Algorithms, data structures, patterns;
- Knowledge of Spring Core, Spring Boot, Spring Context;
- Understanding of Java Core, OOP;
- Experience in software testing and writing unit tests;
- Understanding of fault tolerance, performance, vertical scalability;
- Knowledge of information security principles.
System Analysis
- Studying in the 1st-3rd year of Bachelor's, 1st-4th year of Specialist, or 1st year of Master's programs in technical and IT specialties;
- Ability to build business models and define system boundaries;
- Understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC);
- Understanding of system interactions;
- Knowledge of databases and their design;
- Understanding of software security principles.
Frontend Development (React)
- Studying in the 1st-3rd year of Bachelor's, 1st-4th year of Specialist, or 1st year of Master's programs in technical and IT specialties;
- Knowledge of algorithms, data structures, patterns;
- Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JS Core, React;
- Experience in software testing and writing unit tests;
- Understanding of microservice architecture;
- Knowledge of message brokers, system integration;
- Understanding of information security principles;
- Understanding of data storage in the browser, storage types, caching.
What We Offer
- The program allows you to immerse yourself in big tech and understand how processes work in a large IT company.
- Practical work experience at T1, a certificate, and a project for your portfolio.
- The center is wherever you are: we offer full remote work and create comfortable offices. We operate from 400+ cities in Russia and Belarus.
- Community and atmosphere: we unite participants into a large community and organize informal events.
- Paid internship.
Selection Stages
- Submit your application (by June 30).
- Pass the test.
- Pass the interview (online).
- Find out the results.
- Join the big tech shift.
