Estefano Reyes, who graduated earlier this month from the Eduardo J. Padrón Campus Honors College, has been selected for the Station1 Frontiers Fellowship, a ten-week summer program that teaches socially-directed science and technology education through research and internships.
The virtual fellowship will start on June 7. Reyes will intern with Deliberate AI, a technology startup that provides objective measurement for behavioral health, and complete a research and development project. He will also engage in lessons about sustainability, computation in a social context, ethical reasoning and more.
“I’m making my dream a possibility,” Reyes said. “This might sound childish, but fairytales can in fact sometimes come true.”
At Miami Dade College, Reyes served as president of Sigma Zeta—the national honor society for natural sciences, computer science and mathematics—and hosted online events like fundraisers to help children affected by COVID-19.
During his freshman year, he was secretary of Phi Beta Lambda and a Student Government Association senator. He also participated in club meetings, marathons and breast cancer awareness activities as a member of Phi Theta Kappa and TriBeta.
He is one of four recent MDC Honors College students who were awarded the $40,000 Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship earlier this month. Reyes, who earned an associate’s degree in computer science from MDC, will transfer to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall.
