HIGHER EDUCATION
A Scalable, High-Impact Alternative to Traditional Internships
Teamship turns classrooms into project-based internships. Students work in teams to solve real problems for real businesses — building the skills today’s employers demand.
Trusted by colleges and universities nationwide:
Teamship Fits Your Schedule, Structure, and Students
Teamship adapts to your institution. Whether embedded in a course, offered as a capstone, or part of a co-curricular track, it fits your structure and students.
First-Year Experience Courses
Introduce collaborative problem-solving early in the student journey.
Marymount is doing Teamship as a Standalone Course.
Capstones or Project-Based Courses
Replace simulated case studies with real stakes and real outcomes
UNCW does Teamship as a module within a course.
Career Readiness or Leadership Programs
Build the mindsets and confidence students need to succeed beyond graduation.
“It wasn’t a mock experience. We were actually helping a company with something they were actually struggling with. Now I know how to talk to professionals and am comfortable presenting new ideas.”
McKensi, Norfolk State University
Honors or Interdisciplinary Seminars
Apply diverse thinking to real-world challenges in a structured environment
How to Adopt Teamship at Your Institution
Define Your Goals
We Help Integrate Teamship Into Your Course or Program
We’ll work with you in a short planning process to identify where Teamship fits:
- Its own course
- Module within a course (first-year seminar, capstone, etc.)
- Co-curricular experience (leadership, career readiness, honors)
By the end, you’ll have a clear integration plan, identified coaches, and a student onboarding model.
Empower Your Faculty
We Prepare Your Faculty to Facilitate Teamship
Your nominated faculty complete the District C Coaching Institute, a professional development program that equips them to lead high-quality Teamship experiences.
- Builds interdisciplinary collaboration skills
- Strengthens experiential learning capacity
- Supports diverse learners in open-ended work
We’ve Got Your Back
District C Provides a Fully Supported, High Impact Experience
- Coaching tools, planning guides, and student resources
- Business partner matchmaking and problem scoping
- Ongoing support from our team
Your faculty focus on what they do best: coaching students through meaningful, real-world work.
How We Help You Succeed
We set you up for long-term success. From planning to employer partnerships, District C provides the structure, tools, and support your faculty need to launch and sustain Teamship.
Implementation Support
Get started with confidence.
We guide you through planning and launch so Teamship fits seamlessly into your courses and programs.
Employer Partnerships
Connect students with real businesses.
We recruit, prepare, and manage employer partners — so your faculty can focus on teaching, not cold-calling companies.
Faculty Playbook
Everything your faculty need, in one place.
A digital resource hub with coaching guides, templates, and tools to run Teamship effectively.
Ongoing Development
Keep growing, together.
Continuous training and community support for faculty coaches, including events and updated resources.
Teamship coaching is different from traditional teaching.
Putting students in teams to solve real problems is powerful but it only works with skilled, intentional coaching. That’s why every Teamship experience is led by a certified educator trained to guide teams through ambiguity, process, and growth.
FACULTY LEARN TO:
Manage an experience
NOT
Deliver a curriculum
Embrace uncertainty
NOT
Have the answer
Coach on process
NOT
Explain content
Provide dynamic feedback
NOT
Score to a rubric
Promote autonomy
NOT
Hold control
FAQs
Yes. We maintain a statewide and national network of vetted employers of all sizes—corporations, startups, nonprofits, and local businesses. District C manages the outreach, scoping, and logistics so your faculty can focus on coaching students.
Faculty from any discipline. Our certified coaches include professors, advisors, and staff from across departments. What matters most is a passion for student success and interest in facilitating team-based, problem-solving experiences—not specific business knowledge.
High school and college students.
The Playbook is a digital resource for District C certified coaches. It contains a curated set of documents, artifacts, best practices, training videos, templates, examples, and roadmaps, all arranged and sequenced to provide a start-to-finish guide for implementing Teamship.
We recommend around 25 total hours of students’ time with as much as possible done in-class for live observation and coaching from the certified instructor.
Workplaces are diverse—and the best teams know how to leverage different strengths and perspectives. Teamship helps students practice inclusive teamwork, preparing them for the environments they’ll enter after graduation.
Every Teamship project is grounded in a real, meaningful, and urgent business problem. Examples include:
- A regional hospital system exploring new ways to reduce patient wait times
- An accounting firm designing strategies to attract and retain Gen Z talent
- A public health nonprofit developing outreach strategies for underserved communities
- A tech startup evaluating product-market fit for a new software solution
- A manufacturing company improving sustainability in its supply chain
- A real estate firm building culture alignment across multiple divisions
When we ask students what they liked most about the District C experience, the opportunity to add real value to a real person or organization is almost always at the top of the list. Regardless of the problem, student teams have a chance to engage in real work that has real consequences and the potential to make a meaningful impact. Not only is this a huge motivator, but it also provides students with an authentic work experience that any college or potential employer will want to hear more about.