DC
Announcing Break Through Tech DC’s 2023 Sprinternship™ Host Organizations
11/14/2022
112 Mason and UMD students matched with companies for the signature micro-internship program.
Articles Listing
DC
Break Through Tech Sprintern Elaine Jin explores alternate tech pathways.
11/08/2022
Sophomore Elaine Jin is leveraging opportunities circulated by Break Through Tech Mason’s listserv to consider different paths forward in tech.
New York Times: An Engine of Upward Mobility Struggles to Capture Opportunities in Tech
11/07/2022
Students at the City University of New York are increasingly graduating with degrees in technology. A new report details the obstacles they face in landing jobs.
Workshift: Micro ‘Sprinternships’ Show Results For Female Students In Tech
11/02/2022
Work experiences as short as three weeks increased women’s odds of landing summer internships in tech by more than 10 fold
Crain’s New York Business:
11/01/2022
Nearly 1,000 Women Got A Spot At A Tech Company After This Experience
Chicago
Who would have guessed?
10/30/2022
Being able to surprise yourself can be essential to finding your path in life. Hear from Charlotte Andry about her gradual, experimentation-filled arc toward a computer science degree in this HOW ("Her Own Words") column.
DC
Mason group relishes conference for women in tech
10/06/2022
Break Through Tech George Mason sent a group to the Grace Hopper conference from September 20 to September 23. Students learned, networked, and even secured interviews for internships and jobs.
Boston
Putting Machine Learning Skills to the Test: Students Begin AI Studio Projects in New York, Boston, and LA
09/19/2022
The Break Through Tech AI Program is focused on giving students the skills and confidence to succeed in machine learning and AI — and there’s no better way to put what they know to the test than the first-of-its-kind AI Studio program.
DC
Undergrads Take Community-building Solutions to the Next Level
09/07/2022
92 University of Maryland students explored user experience design in Break Through Tech’s Summer Guild.
DC
Seizing the summer: Students complete Summer Guild across the country
09/02/2022
For incoming first-year undergraduates, summer is an important time — busy with course selection, packing in hours at summer jobs, studying a campus map — to prepare for the four years ahead. At Break Through Tech, we think it’s never too early to start thinking about how the classes they choose set a student up for their future career.
