Maki is a senior studying global political economy. She is working for the Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL) as a Website Developer. She is working on a web page for a new project dealing with racial justice at community colleges and for an upcoming conference. She is hoping to obtain a job at a tech company in the future! Maki's grateful that ATLAS has...
Lily Ho is a junior studying computer science and astronomy, with minors in both business and informatics. She is working for ATLAS on the mobile Moodle development team. She is currently the Lead Developer on the team, which means she delegates tasks, sets goals and the project pace, and trains new interns coming onto the project. After working with ATLAS, she has decided to change her career...
Jessica Yun is a freshman studying communications. She is working with Dr. Mehta, a professor in the Department of Religion. Her project has her comparing two different versions of Vogue magazine; one that is published in India, and another in the United States. She is doing this comparison with regard to certain words, but paying particular attention to references about ...
Emaline Johnson is a senior in molecular and cellular biology and English, whose internship is centered around the formation and creation of information surrounding these internships. She is able to use her work as an English major to write these sections about other interns and is developing website editing skills by creating this platform to post them on. Through ATLAS, she feel she is...
Junior Isabelle Plebanek is majoring in communications. Isabelle's internship focuses around implementing the Cerb ticketing program into the political science department on campus, with expansion into other departments likely in the future. ATLAS currently uses the Cerb ticketing program to track tasks and responsibilities; Isabelle's goal is to implement it in the other departments to make...
Di Qiang is a senior studying mathematics and economics. She works with an intern supervisor to make flowcharts that analyze aspects of the internship application process. They look at these flowcharts and determine how they can improve application procedures for everyone to make the application process easier. As a Workflow Specialist she also uses FormBuilder, a site to help...
Elise Snyder is an integrative biology major with an English minor whose internship focuses on helping the I.D.E.A. Store in Champaign. She works as their Social Media Specialist, working primarily on Facebook. While she occasionally goes to the store to take photos for her posts, she spends most of her time composing posts remotely. Before this, she didn’t know how social media was used in...
Ginny Lee is a mathematics major with both a computer science and informatics minor. Her internship is centered around recreating a website for NetMath Weekly and implementing a new design on a new platform. She works closely with her partner from the website to implement feedback in the design process of the new website. This internship has given her a lot of experience in the field she...
Lucy Xi Liu is an actuarial science and economics double-major with an informatics minor. Lucy is currently helping to organize the ATLAS website. She works closely with full-time staff to edit the information that represent the different groups under ATLAS. She gets in contact with those groups, asks for updates that they want to be posted, and then sends the posts she creates for approval....
Anya Kanevskaya is a junior majoring in English. She is working as an intern with the goal of improving documentation existing within ATLAS on both Publish and Moodle. She does this by transferring information or editing existing documents. She has built skills like compiling data, problem-solving and documentation. She says that even though working with computers doesn’t fit in...