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Social Impact Internships: Tuyet Pham (’21)

The Importance of Play in Education, Gaming the Pandemic Games, with its interactive components, can greatly aid people’s learning experience. Some people find it easier to understand concepts when they…

Social Impact Internships: Anais Marenco (’22)

Tech for Good, Tech for Health: How Ariadne Labs is Confronting Accessibility Challenges in Healthcare This semester, I am working as an intern on the Better Evidence Team at Ariadne…

Social Impact Internships: Jackie Lin (’24)

My name is Jackie Lin, and I am a freshman from New York City. I started coding three years ago, during my sophomore year of high school, and found that…

Social Impact Internship Feature: Octavio Vega, NeedsList

Octavio Vega (’22, Course 8) is a Crisis Relief Intern with NeedsList through the PKG Social Impact Internships program. NeedsList is an organization that builds solutions for a new era…

Social Impact Internships: Elizabeth Carbonell (’23)

When I first started this internship, I was very motivated to socially impact my community. In the beginning, I wasn’t sure how my work would be useful but as I…

Social Impact Internships: Varsha Sandadi (’23)

This summer, I worked as a data visualization intern for the Northeast Denver Innovation Zone, or NDIZ for short. NDIZ is an organization that works closely with several public schools…

Social Impact Internships: Reed Robinson (’23)

Being a pre-med student in the midst of a pandemic has deeply impacted my perception of the medical field, and my prospective place in it. As a result, I am…

Social Impact Internships: Following Up with Julian Zulueta (’23)

We were so excited to follow up with Social Impact Intern Julian Zulueta (’23, BioEng) on his experience with the CDC Foundation this summer! Check out Julian’s first post on…

Social Impact Internships: William Exson (’22)

Learning to Protect Ecosystems This summer I worked with Solid State Lighting Services to provide the National Park Service (NPS) with a guide for LED lighting fixtures. The products provided…

PKG Fellowships 2020: Kelly Wagman Part IV

Check our Part I, Part II, and Part III of Kelly’s experience this summer! — As I’ve described in earlier blog posts, I spent this summer working on building a…