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The Ohio Third Frontier internship program for technology companies is back, after the Third Frontier Commission recently approved $1 million to restore it, Columbus Business First reports. The Ohio Development Services Agency (ODSA) manages the program; the agency “pledged to add outreach to schools to attract rural and minority students to apply,” according to the article. The state match has increased from 50-50 to 2-to-1, and the maximum intern pay has been increased to $15,000, “five times the limit under the 13-year program that ended in June — if companies need to attract graduate students with high skill levels.” Norm Chagnon, deputy chief of the agency’s Office of Technology Investments, said the agency will invest more effort in actively recruiting interns and trying to match them with employers, in contrast to the previous program that provided internship aid “only to companies that had already selected a student.” Companies that have been in business no more than seven years and have 75 or fewer employees are eligible for the program. For more, read the full article.