DC
Digital Skills ‘Break Through’ Across Disciplines
08/25/2022
92 University of Maryland students in 24 majors participate in Break Through Tech's Summer Guild.
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National
The Story Behind the Numbers: AI Studio Project Partner USA for UNHCR
08/16/2022
Jenny Sy had already heard of the Studio at Cornell Tech when she submitted a project to Break Through Tech’s AI Studio last year. The Data Science Manager at the Hive, USA for UNHCR — the UN Refugee Agency — had enjoyed working with Master’s students at Cornell, but wasn’t sure what to expect with undergraduates from schools across the greater NYC area.
A Love for “Building Things”: AI Student Mariam D.
07/15/2022
Mariam D.’s father works in construction. It’s he who she credits with fostering her love for “building things” — but it took Mariam a while to realize that she could build programs, abstract things, not just physical, concrete ones.
Chicago
A clear view of medical tech at GE Healthcare
07/13/2022
Come for the tech work experience, stay for the opportunity to file a patent application. To their complete surprise, that was what our Sprinternship was like for the five UIC students who matched with GE Healthcare in 2022!
Chicago
Programming, preparation, and poker at PEAK6
06/20/2022
Following a successful all-virtual Sprinternship™ in 2021, the financial services firm PEAK6 brought its 2022 Break Through Tech Chicago Sprinterns™ in house. The result? A rewarding tech immersion that combined programming experience and career preparation with one unusual ingredient.
Five ways tech leaders can support women on their teams finding their own voice
06/14/2022
The most diverse tech pipeline in the world won’t ultimately make a difference if the women who make it into tech are held back by organizational cultures that, consciously or not, incentivize their silence. While it may be true that women have the tendency to want and expect their work to speak for itself, the truth is that being vocal at work has always been a minefield for women.
National
A Foot in the Door: Employers Share their Sprinternship™ Experiences
06/07/2022
As the weather warms up, many of our students are looking towards a major milestone in their career: their first summer internship. It’s a turning point for a college student, as that experience can give them the confidence they’re on the right career path and get them in an employer’s pipeline for future opportunities, or even full time employment. But for a lot of our students, summer internships seem impossible to land — that is, until they have a Sprinternship™ on their resume.
Chicago
CS 111 students ‘put it all together’ with micro-motion projects
05/31/2022
It's the ultimate group project: designing a massive machine, with each component designed by one student, that performs one continuous chain reaction. Find out how students in UIC's introductory programming course did it.
DC
Instinct can lead to great things
05/27/2022
Brenda Henriquez, a brand-new computer science graduate as of May, says she always had George Mason University on her radar. Coming into a STEM area felt like a natural fit for her and she was excited to join the Break Through Tech DC at George Mason initiative as a peer leader.
Chicago
A degree program that speaks her language
05/24/2022
At Break Through Tech Chicago, we often point out that computer science pairs well with almost any academic focus. UIC student Danielle Cartagenes found that magic pairing with linguistics, an area of study offered by UIC's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.