Recent Internship Grant Recipients

Current Interns 

Tausif Noor

Grant winner Tausif Noor '14 is currently in Dhaka, Bangladesh volunteering for the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC). Tausif reports that he is doing research on the education system to assess the content of the Computer Aided Learning (CAL) materials that BRAC has created. The goal, he states, is not to copy textbooks onto a digital format, but to make new interactive materials for use in rural settings, such as math and science problems using real life agricultural processes and procedures that are relevant to kids. When schools reopen in January, he will visit various classrooms across the country to see the CAL program in action. Tausif is chronicling his experiences through his blog, Bytes from Bangladesh.

Mary Scott Cain

Grant winner Mary Scott Cain '14 will be spending winter term interning with the Georgia-based Chalmers Center for Economic Development, researching the impact of mobile banking on developing economies. The Chalmers Center equips West African businesses with the know how to facilitate informal savings and credit associations. Mary Scott will be looking at ways to most effectively implement the Chalmers Center's strategy using mobile banking.

Past Interns

	Anani Sawadogo '14 Anani spent Summer 2012 in Burkina Faso, organizing and teaching a summer camp on web design and entrepreneurship under the supervision of the International School of Ouagadougou.
	Charles Governali '12 Charlie spent Summer 2012 with the Natural Capital Project in Palo Alto, CA, helping to improve a spatially explicit model of biodiversity.
	Jake Epstein '13 Jake spent Winter 2012 in Kathmandu working as a computer technology development intern with the NGO Volunteers Initiative Nepal (VIN).
	Robert Szypko '12 Robert spent Summer 2011 in Boston working for Partners' in Health on their Global Health Delivery Project's online platform.
	Lauren Rosenbaum '11 Lauren spent Summer 2010 working with the peer-to-peer microloan non-profit Zidisha in Masai Mara.
	Emma Smithayer '12 Emma worked with the One Laptop Per Child program in Uruguay during Spring 2010.
	Parker Phinney '12 During Winter 2010, Parker worked in Philadelphia for OpenHatch, a community website working to help the development of open source software.