Summer 2020 Volunteer Internship

With COVID-19 cancelling many internships, we wanted to find a way for self-motivated students to still obtain experience while also helping their communities. This LinkedIn post and associated form (below) attracted over 100 interested people. From this, we have about 80 active people in Slack and 6 teams.

With this in mind, we wrote the following in GitHub to document the common problems facing non-profit organizations.

Students will self-organize around problem statements and will need to be self-motivated and collaborative to accomplish their projects. By doing this, we are confident that we can write letters of reference that will explain each person's contribution.

Thank you to PayPal!

PayPal has provided $4,000 as a prize to say "thank you" to those who worked through their summer to benefit non-profits.

As stated at PayPal's Social Innovation page:

Our Social Innovation efforts build upon our strong sense of commitment and purpose by harnessing and deploying our unique capabilities, resources and expertise to drive positive, lasting social impact through our business. We focus on three key areas: helping to advance the financial health of people and small businesses; increasing the volume and scale of charitable giving around the world; and, strengthening the communities in which we live and work.

For the 22 people who responded with their PayPal accounts, we split this prize up, and have sent this money over as of September 23rd, 2020. This is a great way to conclude the months of effort put in by this awesome people. We are so happy that we are able to provide a surprise to everyone involved. 🙏

End of Summer Volunteer Internship Demo

Thank you to the smart, brave, determined, and amazing 22 of you who sacrificed your summer to help non-profits! Here's a sample (to the right) of the certificate of achievement that they will be receiving.

Three teams were able to make time to demo their projects to us on August 10th, see their videos below and be sure to check out the demo videos for each of the teams as you can see how they approach their respective non-profit problems throughout the summer.

Sample certificate

Analyzing STEM/STEAM Trends

Team 1

Risk Scoring for Animal Adoption

Team 6

Health Record Management

Team 4

OpportunityHack.io

Team 5

Thank you to PayPal!

End of Summer Volunteer Internship Demo

Analyzing STEM/STEAM Trends

Risk Scoring for Animal Adoption

Health Record Management

OpportunityHack.io

Teams and participants

Team 1 Analyzing Trends

Team 2 BuRN

Team 3 Inventory Team 1

Team 4 Health Record Management

Team 5 Oppio

Team 6 Hoist the colors

Team 8 PAK Risk Score

Team 7 Digitize Team 1

Teams and participants

Teams officially form by documenting their team as a GitHub issue ticket here. What you see below is a detailed list of each team, what they are working on, and the project status.