HIGH POINT, N.C., Aug. 3, 2016 – High Point University rising junior Catherine Vogt is spending her summer sharpening her planning skills by coordinating international events with one of the world’s largest banks. The Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, native is an intern at the worldwide headquarters for Commerzbank, a leading international bank, in Frankfurt, Germany.
As an event management intern for the second largest bank in Germany, Vogt has a variety of responsibilities. She works in Commerzbank’s Life Marketing department and attends meetings, translates documents from German to English, plans and leads client training and creates presentations for bank events.
She also has the opportunity to plan seminars for employees from banks all over the world. These seminars are designed so that employees from across the globe can come together to collaborate and learn from one another.
Vogt says she was very excited to attend one of the seminars she planned.
“This was a huge accomplishment for me, because I could see all of my hard work being executed,” she says.
Vogt has really enjoyed having an internship that directly ties to her event management courses in the Nido R. Qubein School of Communication. She says HPU has helped by stimulating her creative side, which she uses regularly to come up with innovative ideas for her company. She felt 
inspired to pursue an internship in event management by Vernon Biaett, assistant professor of event management at HPU.
“This internship has made me realize that event management is the field I would like to pursue as my career,” Vogt says. “I am looking forward to exploring the major in various capacities at HPU before I make a final decision on what particular branch I would like to go into after college.”