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.
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.
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.
09/07/2022
92 University of Maryland students explored user experience design in Break Through Tech’s Summer Guild.
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.
09/01/2022
Sometimes you find a natural home for your aptitudes in a place you never thought to look. In this HOW ("Her Own Words") column, UIC student Linda Mansour explains how letting go of her initial conception of her academic trajectory led her to something better.
08/30/2022
At Break Through Tech, “innovation” and “scale” are words that comes up a lot because when trying to bend the curve in the tech industry towards gender equity we know that anything less than constant innovation and large scale will not get the job done. That is why we’ve been busy at work since our launch announcement in April, making changes and improvements to the program based on learnings from our pilot year and rolling out the program in three cities: New York City, Boston, and Los Angeles.
08/25/2022
92 University of Maryland students in 24 majors participate in Break Through Tech's Summer Guild.
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.
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.
