The REVelry Internship
Co-founded by Josh Kline ’99, REVelry, is a sales accelerator that pairs Wabash undergraduates with early-stage companies for a summer of real and quantifiable work in sales and go-to-market engineering. In addition to real-world experience, participants also get Sandler sales training and direct go-to market engineering assistance. In eight weeks, they are building something real, quantifiable, and shareable.
These photos were taken by Anna Barnett on location at the Nomad Coworking Studio in Indianapolis in July 2026.
REVelry participants, known as REVelers, meet daily at the Nomad Coworking Studio on Meridian Street in Indianapolis.
Ben Church '28 (left), points out something intersting to Matthew Brooks '24, Center for Innovation, Business, and Entrepreneurship (CIBE) program manager, in the REVelry workspace. Of his REVelry experience, Church said, "It’s good to be consistent and motivated and to keep pushing. I feel more marketable for sure. I feel more comfortable going into an interview now that I’ve done real world work, and I think that’s something that REVelry is really big on. You’re providing value in real world settings."
Kyle Foster '27 (left) and Cooper Navarro '28 listen to the ongoing conversation.
Foster listens as Josh Kline '99, (right) REVelry co-founder, talks through some best practices.
Kline always has time to answer questions. He makes this point to REVelers and witnesses a transformation, “Failure is the greatest learning tool on the planet. We seem to have taken it away from young people. We lean into hard things and failure, and our people are facing rejection multiple times in a day. In the first two weeks they were here, they were like they’d just seen a ghost. To watch that progression by week three or four—those sorts of moments are the most precious.”
Adam Gaskill '29 (left) and Foster actively listen to one of Kline's pieces of advice.
Foster takes a few questions in the Nomad conference room.
You can often find the REVelers actively engaging with each other with questions and conversations.
Matt Nettleton (right), president of Sandler Sales Training, listens as Church tells a client story.
Kline (left) enjoys the give and take with the REVelers.
With Kline listening in the background, Nettleton (right) listens to a question from the group. Wabash fun fact: Two of Emeritus Professor of Art Gregory Huebner's H'77 paintings can be seen in the background. In fact, the space is filled with his art.
Kenton Chase '28 listens to the conversation from his cubicle. Of being a REVeler this summer, he said, "I wanted to do something related to people, and my goal this summer was to do a sales internship. There are so many different ways that you can do sales. This summer has helped me a lot with that. I’m very glad that I had this experience and wouldn’t change it."
Chase (center) and Gaskill (right) pay attention as Brooks makes a point on the whiteboard.
Chase expressively answers a question in the conference room.
Navarro engages in conversation.
There is rarely a time where the group isn't learning from each other. (clockwise from far right) Chase, Brooks, Gaskill, Foster, and Navarro opnely share the day's successes and failures.
Brooks (center, facing camera) answers a question for the group.
Navarro is all smiles during this conversation.
Nettleton takes a moment to explain his role in the REVelry program. He said of REVelry, "There's one skill beyond anything else that they should get from this, and that is comfort with professional curiosity. That that's the thing that is the greatest indicator of success: the ability to ask a relevant question and understand what the answer means will do more to advance their career than anything else."
The REVelers are always hard at work (Navarro in the foreground, Chase in the background).
Navarro emphatically makes his point.
Gaskill dives into some research. "At the start, I was pushing so hard for the meeting [with potential clients] that I wasn’t asking them good enough questions," he said of the key skill he learned this summer. "In order for me to make a real impact, I had to learn how to ask better questions within the first conversation so I’m actually passing on qualified leads.”
A relaxed Foster said of his REVelry internship, "Being able to adapt has definitely been a new thing in the workplace--at least that I’ve learned this summer--and ithat’s become very important to me. Just being able to take stuff on the fly as it comes and being able to roll with that has been probably the most important thing I’ve learned this summer."
Of his summer experience, Navarro said, "The value I would bring to an employer is my ability to work on my own. I don’t need to be led in a certain direction. I can kind of do multiple things, whether it’s revenue engineering or the sales training. I have a wide variety of skills that I’ve been taught through this internship."
No matter the circumstance, there is always witty banter to enjoy as a REVeler.