Clare Sullivan is a junior studying communication with a minor in public relations. She is currently the team lead of the ATLAS Communication team and their Social Media Specialist. Clare has been with the ATLAS Internship Program for four semesters and her favorite part of ATLAS is that everyone wants you to succeed and it’s an extremely supportive environment. She has gained leadership and...
Student Spotlights
Cristal Cardenas is a senior majoring in mathematics and potentially minoring in atmospheric sciences. She began working as an ATLAS intern over the summer, where she became familiar with the program FormBuilder. This semester, Cristal is a Workflow Specialist, wherein she constructs forms through FormBuilder; some examples include the Intern Status Report. Cristal's experience as an...
Jessica Medintz is a senior majoring in astronomy with a minor in computer science. Her role as an ATLAS intern this semester is as a Programmer for the Moodle Mobile App. Jessica, along with other programmers, technical staff, and focus group members, will be updating the current Moodle app to make it better organized; however, creating a new app entirely may not be out of the...
Junshu is a senior studying psychology, East Asian languages and cultures, and is working with ATLAS as an intern. This semester, Junshu is working on a Qualtrics survey with a focus group about the usability of Moodle for students and faculty, using essays and heat maps, in which feedback will be forwarded to ATLAS programmers working on a Moodle app. Through his time as an ATLAS intern,...
Senior Zaolin (Tyra) Chen is a first-semester ATLAS intern and is majoring in economics with a minor in business. When not interning with ATLAS, she volunteers as a market specialist, was a board member for the Illini Women in Economics, and even writes articles and shoots videos. As a Social Media Specialist, Tyra’s responsibilities include video editing, graphic designing, strategizing the...
Sophomore Vivek Bhookya is an ATLAS intern majoring in computer science and astronomy; he is also looking at adding a statistics minor. Vivek works on the Mobile Moodle team. In his position, he works with other programmers on improving the Moodle mobile application by reading through the codebase and developing new ideas for the app. He’s learned that being successful as an ATLAS...
Hannah Preston is a first semester ATLAS intern working as a User Support and Documentation Specialist. In addition to being a sophomore majoring in psychology and English, Hannah is a copy editor at the Daily Illini and volunteers in OB services at Carle Foundation Hospital. As a User Support and Documentation Specialist, Hannah first captioned videos on Kaltura Media Space, and now works with...
Megan Resurreccion is a sophomore majoring in statistics and minoring in creative writing and informatics. Megan says she found out about the internship program through an email, and wanting to get some preliminary experience of working in a professional environment, she applied and was accepted. During her second semester as an intern, she works as a Data Analyst with the...
Senior Sarah Asri is a second semester ATLAS intern majoring in mathematics and minoring in astronomy. She had heard of ATLAS from Moodle and decided to intern at ATLAS in order to learn American work and team culture; now, she works as a Website Content Strategist. Sarah migrates content from the old Classics website to the pilot site and, upon approval, this new website will replace...
Tianqi Huang is a junior majoring in economics and minoring in business; additionally, he is a first semester ATLAS intern. He heard of ATLAS through an email, and thought it would be a good opportunity. Tianqi now works as a Project Management Assistant, which involves taking complicated results from Surveygizmo that originated from the feedback of participants who had...