Mandatory Architectural Internship

**Welcome** to the Internship that goes way beyond Architecture and civil engineering.

SPRAT - Society for Promoting Rationality - is
- a national award-winning NGO,
- committed to promoting rationality, scientific temper, inter-faith harmony
- and to empowering the poor by inventing and promoting gadgets and processes to ease everyday drudgery

This is a **challenging**, highly empowering on-job training opportunity (not suitable for the lazy, easy-going, ‘internship-holiday’ or ‘just-certificate’ seeking youth).
- in a professionally managed, digitally empowered social service organization that also seeks to improve everyday architecture and construction processes and tools.
- supported by the likes of Microsoft, Google, AutoDESK, US Sate Dept, Ford Foundation etc.
- that works on Office365, using the cloud, contemporary IT including using AI

**Stay and Benefits**

SPRAT is headquartered at central Ahmedabad. It is developing a 13K SYd integrated and digitally powered campus, called the TARKIK SADAN at **Matar**, 40 KMs from HO. The interns will largely stay at the serene campus (your internship site) and occasionally at Ahmedabad - at SPRAT provided accommodation

The advertised stipend range covers the gross benefit - and depends upon your proficiency and productive capacity. But if you opt for immersive format and stay with us then in lieu of this stipend we will offer Vegetarian / NV food and functional, shared bachelor [gender-specific] accommodation and on-the-house recreation. Plus a small pocket money Past interns have mostly opted for this format and fondly remember the food and fun-learning to date.

**Learning And Career**

You will work under sharp, experienced and informed leadership on a daily basis. Your architectural learning may be periodically examined by a very senior, certifying architect.

**They will**:

- guide you not only on architectural and civil engineering aspects but also on management, greening and everyday IT.
- offer rare insights into political and social life of India and the why and how of your inquiry zone, providing scientific explanation of foundational questions of birth, growth, death and thereafter

**You will**
- confront unconventional challenges of design, economy, pragmatism, regulation, innovation, automation, and above all, extensive Greenery including Hydroponics, Aeropoincs, Aquaponics and simple and plain vertical farming.
- learn and practice advanced AutoCAD, SketchUp, Excel, elementary use of AI.
- get to watch impacting documentaries, specially on science and rationality,
- participate in discussions, debates and videos through our Knowledge Meetings

You will commission all that you learnt at the college, and yet research and critically examine the issues that we will present, almost daily. And then
- Prepare outlines, parameter tables, rough and quick pencil sketches and then CAD and later 3D drawings and models
- Handle with finesse the finishing jobs of residential cum office spaces, including furniture and interior design, electrification, data and communication infrastructure, massive productive greening, harnessing and recycling, at our campus
- Monitor execution of structural designs of an OHT tower
- Should learn rapidly about Landscaping, horticulture including vertical farming, notably Hydroponics, Aeroponics and Aquaponics.
- Significantly contribute to the popularization of everyday science, and rational thinking, including by promoting/managing workshops and intellectual events, publication, films, social media, and if possible to design and develop products / gadgets that ease or empower rural life.

We blend productivity with critical thinking, and impacting knowledge - the fun-way Yes, we work hard, but in a fun-way. Knowledge and learning drive us and those around us. There is seldom a moment of boredom, and plenty of wow

If you are sufficiently motivated you will learn and develop the skills necessary for a successful career in professional management. Indeed, we will be glad to offer you a **junior management position** right with us, on satisfactory completion of your internship, at a starting gross annual package exceeding Rs. 2.5 lakh.

**Requirements**:You are / have
- Secular, rational and completely against religious extremism, bigotry and blind faith
- A record of strong empathy for the underdog, and resistance against discrimination and oppression
- Proficiency in AutoCAD and SketchUp / any 3D modelling software, and in Microsoft Word and Excel
- Deeply interested in horticulture powered architecture and interior
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and/or Hindi
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
- Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.
- While continuing to gather on-hand experience of architecture and civil engineering you should be