Undergraduate Internships: Opportunities & Impact

As a SEAS undergraduate, Allegra Farrar honed her research and engineering skills in a number of internships and research positions, beginning with summer positions at MIT Lincoln Laboratory after her freshman and sophomore years, where she worked on a NASA program to simulate an orbit from Earth to the Psyche Asteroid. During the summer following her junior year, Allegra conducted telemetry data analysis for the James Webb Space Telescope program through an internship with Northrop Grumman. Read her story

After spending their sophomore year abroad—Andrew in Australia and Conor in Ireland—junior year brought new adventures for Connor Gillespie and Andrew Edzenga as they both landed summer internships at Tesla. Conor worked as a design engineering intern in the company’s headquarters in Palo Alto, CA, while Andrew worked in the company’s Freemont, CA, facility as a manufacturing facilities mechanical engineering intern. Read their story

While Caitlin Carfano was working for a tutoring program in an affluent Washington, DC, suburb during her freshman year, she decided she wanted to try to provide similar opportunities for elementary school students in DC public schools. She pitched the idea for a free, after-school STEM education program to her roommate, Monica Kavathekar, and the two began planning. Their idea took root, and four years later the program has 30 student volunteers who lead STEM activities at five public schools in Washington, DC, throughout the academic year. Read their story