{"id":37576,"date":"2024-07-23T10:56:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T14:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/?p=37576"},"modified":"2024-07-23T10:56:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T14:56:54","slug":"kendall-campus-honors-college-student-interning-at-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/kendall-campus-honors-college-student-interning-at-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendall Campus Honors College Student Interning At Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Valeria Chacon, a rising sophomore studying computer science in the Honors College at Kendall Campus, is interning as a software developer engineer at Amazon in Santa Clara, California through Aug. 9.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The three-month internship, which began on May 20, is part of the <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazonfutureengineer.com\/scholarships\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an initiative that provides <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazonfutureengineer.com\/2023scholarshiplist\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">high school seniors<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with up to $40,000 ($10,000 annually) toward an undergraduate degree in engineering or computer science and a paid summer internship at Amazon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, Chacon is working on projects related to artificial intelligence and machine learning, a process that allows computers to perform tasks without human intervention. Upon completion of the internship, she will have earned $30,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen I would take computer science classes in high school, I was the only woman in a classroom full of men. Obviously, it made me feel like maybe I&#8217;m out of place,\u201d Chacon said. \u201cSeeing myself and hundreds of girls around the country get the scholarship reaffirms I&#8217;m not alone in this field.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Kendall Campus, Chacon serves as the Reach Program manager of <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/sharknet.mdc.edu\/organization\/initmdckendall\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">INIT<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a cybersecurity and computer science club aimed at helping students launch their careers in the tech world. 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