Over 600 students have interned at nearly 150 organizations with support from the Maryland Technology Internship Program (MTIP) since 2018.

After reading UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski’s op-ed about a similar program in Massachusetts, I introduced the bill creating the program.

Governor Hogan has funded it.

The people at UMBC who administer MTIP suggested that we change the minimum GPA average from 3.0 to 2.5.

Qualified students are unable to participate, they’ve told me.  I respect their judgment.

But I couldn’t resist calling our legislation to bring about that change the “Belushi bill.”:

At the Senate hearing today, Christine Routzahn from UMBC testified about Ben Cichy, a Mission Systems Engineer at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, who had mediocre college grades.

House Bill 307 is now the Cichy bill.