Companies reach out to younger students for on the job training

BOULDER — David Davenport is one of the success stories.

Davenport started his career in the high-tech industry as a college intern, working for United Technologies Micro Electronic Systems in Colorado Springs for four summers. Now Davenport, 24, works as an information technology specialist at IBM Global Services and says his interning experience was a definite advantage when he entered the job market.

“It put me ahead of everyone else graduating from college,” he says. “It also gave me some early experience to figure out what I wanted to do as a…