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Learn about the promising young professionals working for CATLab this year!
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Learn about the promising young professionals working for CATLab this year!
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The Center for Applied Technology seeks to enhance relationships in the 蜜桃传媒 community through the innovative use of technology. One of the main ways we accomplish that goal is through CATLab: our summer program where we partner with students to build the college's critical technological infrastructure and prepare the students for success in industry.
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Learn More鈥淕oing with interns that know the system was actually a more cost-effective route than hiring somebody that didn鈥檛 really know a system but had to be there full time. It was an easy pitch from a cost perspective. We needed something, and 蜜桃传媒 came with people that knew the system. All the pieces really worked together.鈥�
鈥擜very Cloutier, Business System Manager at The Thornhill Companies
鈥淚 was pleasantly surprised with Kimberlee鈥檚 ability to work on her own. I felt like we were able to get her up to speed on the projects, and she could run with it...To be able to have an intern who can work in a different city and be productive and be a self-motivated worker was really impressive.鈥�
鈥擜ndrew Clark, marketing manager at RDN
"CATLab prepares students to the point where 鈥渨ith [their] skill sets right out of college, [they] could come in for an internship for a few months and change how we do business in a very transformative way.鈥�
鈥擨an Monsma, program manager at RDN
"CATLab is a very effective program to help the 蜜桃传媒 students deliver from day 1 when they join tech teams in the industry. I am grateful to partner with CATLab and Zak Landrum."
鈥擱ohit Malik, Software Engineering Manager at AppFolio
This May, CATLab embarked on its annual trip to San Francisco, bringing along twenty-two students for an unforgettable deep dive into the heart of California鈥檚 tech industry.
Each May in downtown Santa Barbara, the glass doors to the CATLab office swing open to welcome a new cohort of student innovators.
For the second installment of our CATLab Alumni Profiles, we spoke with Jonathan Lee 鈥�21, a member of CATLab in 2019, about his current career in the software industry. He shared his experiences as well as his advice for students about to graduate and launch their own careers in the technology and software fields.
Here at CATLab, we鈥檙e so proud of our graduates! Many of the students who came through CATLab during their time at 蜜桃传媒 have leveraged the skills they learned in the program into exciting roles in the technology and software industries. We recently sat down with Alexa Gatiss 鈥�23, who participated in CATLab in 2021 and 2022, to hear more about her current work and her advice for future CATLab students.
Ryan Magnuson and Nice Teta Hirwa reflect on the challenges they faced while creating new AI tools for 蜜桃传媒's admissions department.
We started without a clue about what we were doing.
In this blog, Rosario Montane discusses her conversation with Dr. Holly Beers about imago dei and young tech professionals.
This summer, CATLab has been reflecting about our role as image-bearers.