From left, MBA students Alex Rouse, Taariq Lewis and Ayodele Alaran speak during a networking event at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, Calif. The event in Silicon Valley was part of a "Tech Trek"--an annual trip organized by MIT Sloan students to test the economic waters and meet with prospective employers in the technology sector. Since they began more than a decade ago, the treks have grown in terms of student popularity and company interest. This year, nearly 200 MIT Sloan students fanned out across the country on three such trips. Separate teams visited with well-known companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft, but also targeted smaller firms and startups. Photo / Stephen Marcus
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on February 6, 2008 (download PDF).
