Javier Cuñat, a computer science student at Miami Dade College, has been selected for the Hites Transfer Scholarship.
The $7,500 endowment is awarded to Phi Theta Kappa members for their academic performance, leadership and civic engagement. Ten students were selected from a pool of 3,000 applicants nationwide.
“I want to promote projects that create a better human experience in tech-related spaces,” Cuñat said.
Cuñat, who attends Kendall Campus, serves as the president of CyberSharks, a computer science and cyber security club, and as the secretary of the Student Government Association.
In January of 2023 through May, he was a tech fellow for CodePath, a non-profit organization that supports minorities pursuing tech careers. He assisted students developing an android application.
From May-August, he was a software development engineer intern at Amazon.
The 19-year-old has also previously served as a part-time data researcher at MDC; with a team of three students and a faculty researcher, he analyzed people’s perspective on artificial intelligence in the workforce.
Cuñat, who was born in Valencia, Spain, plans to transfer to either Stanford or Massachusetts Institute of Technology this fall to pursue a bachelor’s degree in computer science.
