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Alumni
We’re always thrilled to see where our students go and celebrate their accomplishments, both in college and beyond.
Ricky:
Ricky graduated from Georgia Tech in 2020 with a degree in Computer Science. As a final project in college, he created an app that detects how often people glance at their cellphones while driving and alerts them if they’re taking their eyes off the road too much. He currently works as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs, in the Financial Planning and Analysis division, helping develop application software.
Alumni
Spotlight
Carol:
Carol was born in Foshan, China and won a scholarship to finish high school in Singapore when she was 15. She graduated from NYU in 2021 with degrees in Math & Computer Science, and during her time in college she worked as the only undergraduate Research Assistant in a team aiming to develop a dyslexia computational model. She also worked in a lab, applying COG optimal transport to machine learning. She will be interning at Facebook during summer 2021 and starting her PhD in Applied Mathematics at Harvard University in the fall.
Chris:
Chris graduated from the University of Michigan in 2021 with degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics. He currently works as a Software Engineer at Uber. Before graduating, he interned at Uber and conducted computer science research at his university, working on human-computer interaction and distributed systems. He was also a Teaching Assistant for a Machine Learning course and was involved with a nonprofit healthcare organization.
K12 Green Fund
Alexia Alejos, Karina Alejos, Joe Pivaral
Hoping to inspire other students to start their own eco-friendly initiatives, Alexia, Karina, and Joe set out to raise funds to install solar panels in their high school’s library. As one of their main projects while at Wings, they quoted prices, partnered with a local company, worked on and learned about the installation process, and were able to calculate potential energy and cost reductions for the school. After raising money through GoFundMe, they got their school to approve their project and match their contribution in order to purchase the panels.
NavTech + ROBOX
Paulina Romero
When she started at Wings, Paulina had already worked on a prototype for NavTech, a device meant to help visually impaired people navigate unknown environments by warning them of nearby objects through sounds or vibrations. During her time at Wings, she continued to perfect and develop the device while also starting ROBOX, a project that offered robotics classes to high school students who later visited low-resource public schools to donate robotics kits and teach other students what they had learned. During this time, she was also accepted into a prestigious Columbia University SHAPE summer program focused on Biomedical Engineering, her intended major.
Ponele Granola
Mariel Valdes
Mariel started selling home-made, gluten-free granola the summer before starting her program at Wings. Through Wings, she was matched with a successful entrepreneur who mentored her through the process of turning her project into a formal small business, focusing on everything from package design to pricing and online sales. She’s continued to sell and promote the product successfully and has even received offers from local delis and grocery stores who wish to sell her granola.
E-Commerce Sales
Gabriel Gandara
During the first months of the pandemic, Gabriel quickly noticed a boom in e-commerce. As he brainstormed ideas with his counselor about how to make the most of his summer while also learning about business (his main area of interest), he arrived at the idea of creating a new e-commerce sales channel within his family’s food manufacturing and distribution business. His counselor at Wings put him in touch with an E-commerce Sales Manager who gave him a crash course on how to pitch his products to online businesses and provided him with a list of contacts he could reach out to, as well as Excel templates he could use to present the details of the products. Gabriel finished his summer having established agreements with three separate e-commerce sites. He was proud to have acquired valuable experience while contributing to his family business in a tangible way.
Grupo REMM Product Design
Ana Mazariegos
As part of the Wings internship program, Ana worked for 5 weeks at a company called Grupo REMM. During this time, she acquired valuable knowledge in design, marketing, and product development while helping a brand of locally-produced eco-friendly beauty and household products called Baobab. Aside from learning to use graphic design software and conducting market research, she was given the opportunity to contribute to the design of a new body wash that was launched in January 2020.