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Fall 2026 recruitmentSHT 14A · APPLICATION

Apply to
the team.

Four sections, three short written answers, about ten minutes. We read for evidence you build things and follow through, not resume polish.

Due September 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM

Not sure what each team does? Read the team breakdown first.

Section 01

The basics

Use your Purdue email if you have one. Decisions go here.

For interview scheduling only.

Year in school

Minors and certificates too, if they matter.

Optional. Paste your profile URL if you have one.

Section 02

Which team

Here's what each team actually does week to week. Pick a first and second choice. Plenty of people get their second choice and love it, so rank honestly.

  • Events

    Produce The Forge, community nights, and workshops end to end.

    • Book speakers and lock in venue, catering, and run-of-show
    • Own an event's budget, promo timeline, and day-of logistics
    • Run the room: setup, check-in, teardown, and the follow-up

    You like owning a date on the calendar and hitting it.

  • Marketing

    Own the brand: content, photo, video, social, and this website.

    • Shoot and edit photo and video at events, then cut it for social
    • Run the Instagram and LinkedIn calendar week to week
    • Design graphics, flyers, and the templates everyone else uses
    • Write event recaps and founder stories for the site

    You already make things (design, film, writing) and want a real audience for them.

  • Finance

    Manage the budget and bring sponsors and partners to the table.

    • Build and track the semester budget across every program
    • Write sponsor outreach and manage the partnership pipeline
    • Handle reimbursements, invoices, and university funding paperwork
    • Sit in sponsor meetings alongside the exec team

    You want the commercial side: money in, money out, and real accountability for both.

  • BoilerLaunch

    Run Purdue's flagship startup competition: logistics, judges, founders.

    • Run competition ops: applications, judging rubrics, and rounds
    • Recruit and prep judges, mentors, and prize sponsors
    • Support founder teams as they move through pitch rounds
    • Own finals night production end to end

    You want one high-stakes flagship to carry from start to finish.

First choice team
Second choice team

What about this team's actual work do you want to do?

0 / 100 words

For Marketing applicants only. Link the one piece of work you are proudest of, not a folder of everything: a graphic, a photo, an edit, a post, a page you designed, something you wrote. It has to be work you made yourself. No AI-generated content, and no work you only art-directed. Google Drive, Behance, Figma, Instagram, or a personal site all work. If it is a Drive link, set sharing to “Anyone with the link can view”, because we can't request access.

Section 03

Two short answers

Specifics beat polish. A messy real story is worth more than a clean generic one.

A club event, a side project, a resale business, a research pipeline. Include how it ended, even if it flopped.

0 / 150 words

What did you actually do?

0 / 150 words

Section 04

Logistics

Answer these honestly. We would rather know now than lose you in October.

Realistically, how many hours a week can you give this?

Most team members spend 4–8 hours a week, heavier around flagship events.

Our all-team meeting is Wednesdays at 6:30 PM. Can you make it?

Other orgs, a job, research, athletics, heavy course load. Just the big ones.

0 / 80 words

Optional

Anything else

Optional. Anything else you want us to see.

How did you hear about The Anvil?

Finish every field marked with an asterisk to submit

Deadline

September 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM

Most team members spend 4–8 hours a week, heavier around flagship events.

What happens next

  1. 01Apply

    A short written application. No resume polish contest. We read for evidence you build and follow through.

  2. 02Conversation

    A conversation with current team members about what you want to work on and why.

  3. 03Decision

    We reply to every applicant, usually within two weeks of the deadline.

  4. 04Onboarding

    You join a team, get an owner's share of a real program, and start shipping.

Stuck on something?

Email TheAnvil@purdue.edu and someone on the team will answer. Every date for this cycle is on the recruiting page.