Launch your journalism career -- while earning course credit -- with this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work directly with Katie Couric and the staff of CBS News. It's all part of SPRINGBOARD, an exciting new journalism program sponsored by CBS News and U-Wire.



SPRINGBOARD invites aspiring print and broadcast journalists to provide a unique local perspective to a global topic, and submit the print or video result for consideration by the journalists of CBSNews.com and CBS News. We'll post the best submissions online, and award one entrant with a summer internship at CBS News in New York City.



Interested applicants must create an original story based on one of the following topics:


Climate Change: Provide a compelling, local angle to the national debate regarding global warming and climate change.



American Spirit: Find and report on a local "social entrepreneur," someone who is trying to bring a creative solution to a longstanding social, economic or community challenge.



Iraq War Veterans: Profile a veteran of the war in Iraq from your community.



Note: All stories will be screened first. Qualified stories will be made available to the CBSNews.com Web community.


Springboard has ended. An intern has been selected.
Thank you for all the quality submissions, reviews and commentary.



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