The Digital Tech Year program
The Digital Tech Year is a software engineering specialization program for high-potential talents hosted by CentraleSupélec. A highly selective program, only 50 out of over 1000 students are selected to take part in the Digital Tech Year. The year-long program comes between the first and the second year in addition to the core Master of Engineering curriculum and is composed of two semesters.
You can join the program either for the fall session (beginning in early september) or for the spring session (beginning in early february).
The first semester is an intensive full-stack engineer training
Working in small teams of 3 or 4 on 7-week projects, the students are in charge of developing Minimum Viable Product, using Design Thinking and Agile methodologies to prototype solutions in answer to real-world business cases brought on by major companies and start-up clients.
The students learn low-level programming, web front-end, back-end, scripting, databases, mobile development, internet of things, artificial intelligence, reverse engineering, security, and more.
They master the main coding languages, practise cutting-edge technologies and learn to rapidly acquire new ones as needed.
While building their prototypes, students are in charge of everything: coding, testing, documenting, shipping, monitoring, scaling, client meetings and presentations.
Dates of the projects of the Spring Session cohort :
- Project #1 starting on the beginning of February
- Project #2 starting Mid April
- Project #3 starting on the end of May
Dates of the projects of the Fall Session cohort :
- Project #1 starting on the end of August
- Project #2 starting on the end of October
- Project #3 starting Mid December
The second semester is a 6-month internship
The second semester is a 6-month internship to put in practice this training with a leading innovator in the field of digital technologies, finalized with the presentation of a lessons-learned internship report.
After completing the program, graduates will have honed their programming and creative skills to be at the vanguard of the digital revolution, leading the disruption of the technological paradigm.