My Internship Reflections
First-person accounts of what I built, learned, and experienced across my internships.
Through a UTRGV internship that partnered with Los Alamos National Laboratory, I worked on building a VR training experience and got to operate in a real research environment. I had to move fast, adapt to technical feedback, and focus on building something that was useful, not just impressive. That experience pushed me to communicate better, solve problems under pressure, and trust my skills at a higher level.
At RECON Technologies, I worked remotely to help build a city website for Progresso and focused on code quality, security, and usability. I got real experience working like a professional developer: collaborating with a distributed team, solving practical problems, and making sure features were reliable for real users. This internship taught me how important clean execution and responsibility are when software affects a whole community.
At Nerdvana, my role was focused on making the sandbox and the software. I worked on building the technical side of the STEM sandbox experience, turning ideas into something students could actually use. This internship helped me improve how I build educational tools and showed me how software can make learning more interactive and accessible.