TyRex Internship Program Continues to Thrive and Innovate
The TyRex Group is on fire via its innovative summer internship! Over the past 3 summers, TyRex has hosted more than 100 interns – 80% high school age – and provided a unique work-based learning opportunity for students. Armed with basic 3D design training / mentorship and 3D printer operation, students use TyRex-created AI-driven software to hunt through more than 453,000 base-level product ideas which can each be 3D printed. AI delivers a market analysis, technical probability of success, relevant industry codes, IP conflicts, and other helpful research along with a generated image of what the product’s design may look like.
From there, students jump off into their own designs, eventually optimizing and producing market-ready, real-world products. Entrepreneurship training is provided for those who want to pursue starting their own business with their product, and those that choose to end the process at prototype stage have valuable project experience to reference in college applications or job interviews.
As a company with a headcount of 150, hosting 30+ interns for several weeks is certainly a big lift for TyRex staff, but the program’s designed “sandbox” structure along with a light curriculum improved over new iterations each year allows for a large number of students to gain valuable internship experience. Moving forward, part of the TyRex internship program will involve singular projects with estimated design skill required (beginner through expert) and estimated hours to complete. Through these work-based learning projects, TyRex hopes to expose even more students to the valuable experience gained by rapid product development.
- 2023: 27 students, human research
- 2024: 44 students, AI-led research, 20+ completely unique products created
- 2025: 30 students, AI-led research, 60+ new and unique products created
TyRex Group is a 30-year old advanced manufacturing company, built to last. Founded by John Bosch, Jr. and Andrew Cooper – intended to be a “resident, not a renter” in Austin. Long history of solving manufacturing problems for both established OEMs and rapidly growing startups.
