[Stratoscope]

I think you may be mistaken about this. If it helps any, I wasn't one of your downvoters; I upvote comments that may be incorrect but lead to an interesting and informative discussion.

I live with an HR exec and read some of this thread to her while she was cutting rhubarb for something she's baking.

She said (paraphrased), "Are you kidding? This is a perfect project for a summer intern. They won't have to take three months to get up to speed with all your internal systems, and of course there is educational value - they will get to see how some talented developers tackled the problem in one language while they translate it to another."

[exelius]

There is immense value to the intern just for being around; the biggest things software dev interns learn isn’t how to code: it’s how to code as part of a team. So check-ins, CI/CD, automated testing, daily meeting cadence, architecture discussions, backlog grooming, code reviews... all things they don’t teach you in school, and all things that you need to know to develop software in the real world.

Most kids right out of school are honestly pretty decent coders. The internship is more about the professional skills than the technical ones.