Name	Title and Abstract
Abdul Adam	Software Engineering Intern – ServiceNow
	I completed a software engineering internship on the Developer Platform team at ServiceNow, a cloud-based enterprise software company. My work centered on the data transformation layer of the platform, where I investigated and resolved software defects involving how the system reads, interprets, and imports structured data. Each fix required tracing execution through unfamiliar codebases, forming and testing hypotheses, and writing integration tests to guard against regressions. I participated in agile standups and code reviews, gaining exposure to professional engineering workflows. The internship deepened my understanding of systematic debugging, code ownership, and contributing reliably within a large software organization.
Nauryzbek Berdi	Research Assistant at Brigham and Women's Hospital
	This poster presents my Summer 2026 internship experience at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where I worked on software tools for cardiovascular medical imaging research. My projects focused on building web based workflows for reviewing medical image segmentations, generating 2D and 3D visualizations, editing 3D vessel models, and preparing aortic lumen segmentations for cropping. I also worked on centerline extraction, anatomical landmark detection, region of interest proposal, manual adjustment tools, and medical image export. Through this work, I learned how software engineering supports medical research by improving reliability, usability, and the ability to review complex patient specific imaging data in a clearer and more trustworthy way.
Andrew Carnes	Student Software Developer Experience
	This poster presents my capstone experience with the Berea College Student Software Development Team. During this work experience, I collaborated with 13 other student developers to enhance and expand the various Berea College websites for students, staff, and administrators across campus. Through this experience, I have gained an understanding of proper coding and debugging etiquette, experience in designing new systems and webpages, and experience with databases using professional tools such as PeeWee and MySQL. This experience has also taught me how to work in a team, make compromises in an agile environment, and how to communicate with teammates to ensure the most effective results for the clients. The experience also allowed for an amazing trip to Red Hat, an open-source software development company, that provided invaluable information about the software development industry, open-source development, and how to find work after college.
Puskar Chapagain	Open-Source Software Development at Runestone Academy
	Open-source software development is an essential part of the modern technology industry. My work focused on improving consistency throughout the chapters of an online textbook, making the material more organized and easier for students to follow. I reviewed textbook content, corrected formatting and markup issues, and supported the conversion of files from reStructuredText to PreTeXt. I finished the internship with a clearer understanding of open-source development and stronger technical and collaborative skills needed for future software engineering roles and projects.
Alys Combs	Patron Interfaces at Hutchins Library
	In the summer of 2026, Alys Combs ('26) utilized their combined background in Computer Information Science and Studio Art to pilot the internship program at Berea College's Hutchins Library. While at the Library, Alys learned from multiple library instruction conferences and his own in-depth research about ethical impacts of social media and generative artificial intelligence on how information (ex. news, health data, facts, concepts, and ideas) disseminate through populations and how academic and public libraries are responding to these shifts. Additionally, he interviewed student workers and examined the Hutchins website to identify trends in where students source information and why.
Dayton Conwell	Building With Peewee and Learning Where Object-Relational Mapping Stops Helping
	I spent Summer 2026 on LSF and CELTS, working on query fetching in Python. Every database operation ran through Peewee, an Object-Relational Mapping framework that lets developers store objects in relational tables without writing SQL. My literature review asked what that convenience costs. The research showed the abstraction holds up for simple queries and degrades as they grow complex. One bad mapping choice can cost an order of magnitude in performance. Published guidance on avoiding these problems contradicts itself. This poster covers what I built, what the research found and what surprised me about both.
Abdou Diop	My SWE Experience at First-Rate Tech Corp
	I will go into detail about my experiences working a 10-week internship at First-Rate Tech Support. I'll cover various topics including the onboarding process, my development environment, work style, and how I believe my experiences are valuable towards a future career in software engineering. I will give summaries of key points in my internship, such as my 1-on-1 meetings with my supervisor, the live demonstrations I hosted for clients, and the QA testing I completed near the end of the internship. All of these experiences will be connected to useful skills I believe I learned from them.
Bryanna Erickson	Peer Instruction Development
	During my summer internship at the University of Michigan, I contributed to Runestone Academy, an open-source platform used to support computer science education. My work focused on improving asynchronous Peer Instruction, a learning approach that encourages students to explain and compare their reasoning. I developed post-discussion feedback questions, helped integrate customizable prompts for AI-supported peer conversations, and improved gradebook functionality. Working within a large, Docker-based codebase strengthened my skills in Python, TypeScript, databases, debugging, and testing. The experience also improved my communication, independence, and confidence while deepening my interest in graduate school, computing education research, and teaching computer science professionally.
Julius Fritz	How to Build a Website: Berea College Student Software Development
	This summer, our team took a large focus on the design aspect of web development. Usually, the SSDT team focuses on resolving existing issues after the website has been in existence for some time. This time around, the Labor Status Form site needed a new webpage, and we were the ones spearheading it. We learned all about design, leadership, databases, and more by experiencing this new feature. I also got to experience real-world development scenarios and actual web design. This, as well as touring and getting insight from people working in the industry. This has significantly accelerated my understanding of Computer Science.
Rue Haile	Software engineering internship at Purdue University’s Bechtel Innovation Design Center
	This presentation examines a computer science internship at Purdue University’s Bechtel Innovation Design Center, highlighting the integration of software development with Berea College’s EPG Cycle of Abilities. The experience applied systems thinking, human-centered design, and collaborative problem-solving to real-world organizational challenges.  By connecting technical practice with core EPG principles such as engaging complexity and uncertainty while recognizing opportunities the internship demonstrates how software developers can incorporate social entrepreneurship into client-centered work. Ultimately, this connection demonstrates how technical knowledge, innovation, ethical awareness, and professional collaboration combine to deliver practical solutions while fostering meaningful academic, professional, and personal growth.
Alyssa Harper	Universal Music Global Technology Tech Support Internship
	In the late 1900s and early 2000s, the way people listened to music began to change. CDs and other physical formats were increasingly replaced by digital music. This shift changed how music was produced and distributed, making technology an essential part of the music industry. Today, technology is integrated throughout the entire music industry, supporting everything from artist discovery and music production to publishing and distribution. The music industry is now undergoing another major shift driven by artificial intelligence. During my internship, I joined the Global Tech Support team, where I helped solve technical issues and develop AI agents to improve knowledge transfer and automate repetitive manual tasks. My poster explores the growing role of AI in the modern music industry.
Jairus Harrison	Behind the Scenes of Open-Source Software Development
	This poster explores my internship experience with Runestone, an open-source educational software project that provides free learning resources to students and educators. During my internship, I contributed to the development and improvement of educational materials used in classrooms across the world while still learning how open-source projects use communication, collaboration, version control, and code review to coordinate work. The poster highlights how tools such as GitHub, Git, PreTeXt, and Docker supported my work and connected to concepts from my coursework, particularly Conway’s Law and socio-technical communication. It also discusses the technical and professional skills I developed through contributing to a real-world open-source project.
Victor Hernandez	Web Development & Security Implementation Intern
	The information on my poster will cover my work as a Web Development and Security Implementation Intern at Sports Performance Lessons. I will explain the different features which I added to the website along with the front end and backend features. I will mention that I made efforts to enhance the security of the website. The poster will have points regarding my software development and UI enhancements and data protection and vulnerability review of the website. I will elaborate on how I worked with the owner of the company regarding real-life settings of the facility and provided him with the end product. The information on this poster will summarize how I was able to link my studies with practical training during my internship.
Bao Hoang	Software Engineering Intern: Enterprise Billing & Cloud Systems at Congero Technology Group
	As a Software Engineering Intern at Congero Technology Group, I built a custom Oracle Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) service to support usage-based billing for an AI product, writing real-time rating logic in C and configuring a twelve-package pricing model, dashboards, and reports. I then deployed the service onto a Kubernetes cluster using hand-written manifests, connected it to a managed cloud database, and built an observability stack to monitor it in production. Through this work, I learned how large enterprise billing systems are built and kept running, and gained experience explaining technical work to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Taylor Johnson	Bechtel Innovative Design Center Internship at Purdue University
	The Bechtel Innovative Design Center (BIDC) is a very well-equipped makerspace. With all the machinery used at the BIDC, documentation of machinery became a struggle. This created the need for software that can be used to record maintenance and incident reports on machinery. So, during my Internship at the BIDC, I developed a full-stack web application to address the issue with documentation. I also had to consider that this application will need to be easy to approach and easily integrable into existing systems such as OS4; OS4 being an ERP used to manage appointments with students and peer-mentors that was developed by Nauka, a fellow Berea student.
Besher Kitaz	SafetyHub: Full-Stack Software Development at Purdue University
	During my summer internship at Purdue University’s Bechtel Innovation Design Center, I developed SafetyHub, a full-stack web application designed to improve the management of makerspace safety training and certifications. The platform allows students, mentors, supervisors, and administrators to track training progress, verify certifications, and manage authorization levels across labs and tools. I built the application using React, TypeScript, Express, PostgreSQL, Prisma, and Docker, while implementing role-based access, certification eligibility rules, training dependencies, and administrative dashboards. This project strengthened my software engineering skills and showed how technology can simplify complex safety and training processes for users in a collaborative makerspace environment.
Mahmoud Leghlimi	Document AI for Automated Information Extraction in Financial Services
	Document AI can automate the processing of complex documents by transforming unstructured information into data that can be used by downstream systems. During my internship, I developed a Document AI pipeline that streamlined the flow of information from document ingestion through data extraction, classification, metadata write-back, and integration with downstream systems. Rather than examining the underlying algorithms, the project focused on the overall architecture and how different AI capabilities can be connected to support an end-to-end business process. The project also included an AI agent designed to automate reporting tasks, demonstrating a complementary application of artificial intelligence to business operations. Together, these applications illustrate how well-designed AI pipelines can reduce manual processing, improve operational efficiency, and enable intelligent automation within financial services.
Hope Michael	Software development with Runestone Academy
	For my 2026 summer internship experience, I worked remotely as a software developer for Runestone Academy, an open-source organization focused on creating accessible, interactive educational resources. I contributed to Runestone projects while working with Linux, Git, the command line, PreTeXt, XML, and technical documentation. I also joined an amazing team developing a new introductory artificial intelligence textbook from the ground up that will be used in the new Intro to AI course (CSC 186) this fall. Beyond learning unfamiliar technologies, I gained experience collaborating in an open-source environment, communicating professionally, solving problems independently, and creating materials with students and accessibility in mind.
Malak Mohamed	Building a Check-In System for the Bechtel Center for Innovation and Technology
	I designed and developed a kiosk check-in system for the Purdue Bechtel Center, serving students, peer mentors, and guests while improving access to appointments and front-desk services. Throughout the project, I gained experience in full-stack development, database management, authentication, user-centered design, and deploying software for a large institutional environment. Beyond technical skills, the experience strengthened my ability to independently define problems, communicate with stakeholders, and make product decisions. The internship also helped clarify my long-term interests in research, technology, and roles that combine technical knowledge with problem-solving and organizational impact.
Dee Munsaka	Full-Stack Web Application Development with the Berea College Student Software Development Team
	This project highlights full-stack software development work completed through Berea College’s Student Software Development Team (SSDT). The experience included contributing to multiple web applications while developing practical skills in software architecture, database systems, frontend development, and backend programming. Work on the New Labor Status Form involved translating interface concepts from paper and Figma designs into a functional web application. Additional development contributions included implementing the Manage Positions page and allocation card, while work on CELTS involved improving button scaling and working with AJAX requests. The experience also included learning MVC architecture, database schemas, entity-relationship diagrams, Python, Peewee, Jinja, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, testing, Git workflows, pull request reviews, pair programming, and collaborative software development.
Mustafa Ndiaye	Building Responsible AI Tools: A CRM Product Management Internship at Emerson Collective
	I joined Emerson Collective's Technology team to build two AI-powered tools focused on transparency, safety, and human control. The first, an Internal AI Preference Representation Agent inspired by Andy Hall's Stanford Graduate School of Business class, interviews users about their values and tests whether an AI agent can accurately represent their preferences across complex policy decisions. The second, built with Salesforce Agentforce, helps legal desk staff identify and summarize funding opportunity records without altering the original data. Building both taught me that responsible AI depends as much on what it refuses to do as on what it can do.
Joyce Nimely	Culturally Responsive Computing with NetsBlox: African American Data & Stories
	Have you ever wondered how computer science education might change when students can see their history, culture, and communities reflected in what they create? This summer, I explored culturally responsive computing through NetsBlox, a block-based programming platform. I developed AfricanAmericanData, a service that allows students to use data about African American people, history, culture, media, and communities in their programming projects. Along the way, I collected and organized educational data, built my first REST API using Python and Flask, developed NetsBlox services, and created example projects. Through this work, I explored how computing can become more relevant, representative, and connected to students’ experiences.
Merci Nshizirungu	Software Development Internship with Runestone Academy
	This summer, I interned as a software developer with Runestone Academy, an open-source platform that delivers interactive computer science textbooks to hundreds of thousands of students. Working remotely with a small team, I contributed to the platform and its textbooks, fixing issues, adding interactive exercises, and improving accessibility and documentation. Using Git/GitHub, Python, PreTeXt, and Java, I moved tasks from open issues through code review to merged pull requests on a live production system. Beyond technical skills, the experience taught me to work independently, take initiative in solving problems, and understand how professional open-source software is built and maintained.
Alpha Nyabuto	Form and Function: Designing and Maintaining Internal Web Applications at Berea College SSDT
	This poster covers contributions made during the summer internship with Berea College's Student Software Development Team (SSDT) during the summer of 2026. The SSDT develops and maintains two major internal web applications: CELTS and LSF. Work included developing features using Flask routes, working with Jinja, designing SQL databases with Peewee, and containerizing applications with Docker for deployment on a Linux environment via WSL. However, the internship was not limited to implementing features on these applications. In addition, the internship entailed designing new pages, fixing bugs, and maintaining the sites in a collaborative development environment that involved iterative design and version control. Direct interaction with users (end-user meetings with the labor department) showed how simple usability improvements can be highly significant for improving user workflows.
Luis Olivas	Software Engineering Internship at JPMorgan Chase
	This poster showcases my Summer 2026 software engineering internship at JPMorgan Chase, where my team won first place out of dozens of teams. Technically, I co-developed an agile, full-stack web application to help management draw bank branches’ insights with artificial intelligence. Informally, I was our team’s product-oriented engineer. I set meetings from cold outreach with product VPs, and a Regional Director overseeing 1,500 employees, uncovered real user pain points, worked closely with business partners, and helped set our project’s direction. I learned that I want to be a product manager, and what it takes to build a winning MVP.
Din Din Par	From Research to Readability: Designing an Accessible AI Curriculum
	During my summer internship at Runestone Academy, I collaborated with 3 other Bereans to create an open-source introductory artificial intelligence textbook for a 100-level course. Applying user-centered design principles, I translated complex research into accessible learning materials aimed at students with little to no prior background in computer science (specifically AI). Utilizing PreText and GitHub, my workflow consisted of regular pull requests, issue tracking, and peer reviews. Beyond the technical work, I learned how to give and receive feedback across a remote team and communicate complex ideas. See behind the scenes of how a course book comes to life on the Runestone platform.
Kushal Phuyel	Cybersecurity Analyst Internship at Stock Yards Bank & Trust
	During Summer 2026, I completed an internship at Stock Yards Bank & Trust, where I gained hands on experience in cybersecurity and information technology within a financial organization. My work included supporting vulnerability assessments, reviewing security alerts, assisting with audits and compliance, imaging and deploying computers, troubleshooting technical issues, and supporting employees across different locations. This experience helped me understand how cybersecurity and IT work together to protect an organization and its customers. My poster will highlight the technical skills I developed, the importance of communication and teamwork, and how this internship shaped my professional interests and future career goals
Galina Potkitko	Open-Source Dev: Runestone
	This summer, I worked as a software development intern with Runestone Interactive, an open-source platform for interactive computer science textbooks. I contributed to the Complexity and CPPDS textbooks, improving structure, accessibility, formatting, and functionality across more than 100 files. My work included replacing hard-coded chapter references with meaningful XML IDs, creating the book's index, adding accessible image descriptions, improving question formatting and answer validation, and reviewing chapters to ensure sections were referenced. Through this work, I strengthened my skills in version control, debugging, problem-solving, and working with unfamiliar codebases while developing attention to detail, communication, and confidence as a developer.
Arohasina Ravoahangiaina	SWE Intern at ServiceNow
	This summer, I interned with ServiceNow's Mobile team, where I worked on building an AI powered agent to make mobile app development faster and simpler. My project moved through three stages: writing mobile app components myself, using AI to generate them from plain English descriptions, and finally building a tool to make that AI-driven generation safer and more reliable. Along the way, I learned to communicate blockers early, collaborate with teammates who think differently than I do, and take on real responsibility for work with no existing playbook to follow. This poster shares what I built, what I learned about the software development process, and how this experience shaped my growth as a future software engineer.
Tristan Razote	Software Engineer: Humana
	During my Summer 2026 internship on the Humana Enterprise API Governance team, I developed advanced AI-driven tools to enhance software quality, operational consistency, and regulatory compliance. By applying responsible principles directly to complex business challenges, I successfully automated workflows while strictly maintaining essential human oversight in decisions. Through collaboration with engineers and by securing first place in the corporate intern hackathon, I gained experience in modern enterprise software development, intelligent automation, API governance, and clear technical communication. I presented my final project to executives, demonstrating the value of secure AI integration. This internship experience perfectly prepared me for future software engineering and leadership roles at Humana.
Eber Seco Lima	Beyond Privacy Rules: Designing Longitudinal Privacy Learning for Children
	Children increasingly interact with digital technologies where personal data is constantly collected, shared, and processed. However, existing privacy education often relies on short-term interventions and rule-based approaches that do not account for how children develop mental models of privacy over time. This project explores a family-centered privacy literacy framework grounded in Contextual Integrity and experiential learning. Through collaborative activities, visual metaphors, contextual simulations, and personalized learning experiences, the framework aims to help children develop stronger privacy reasoning, agency, and autonomy while encouraging parent-child conversations about digital privacy. This approach seeks to prepare children for more informed participation in digital environments.
Habiba Sorour	Systematic Study of Open Source: Development at Runestone Academy
	This poster presents findings from a software development internship at Runestone Academy, where technical contributions and independent research intersected within a real open-source environment. Contributions included converting two open-source textbooks from reStructuredText to PreTeXt, authoring 550+ contributions, and implementing interactive Parsons' problems to improve accessibility and readability. A systematic literature review examined the empirical basis of the many-eyes hypothesis in open-source security, finding that code visibility is necessary but insufficient for security. Beyond the technical work, the internship reframed assumptions about readiness, collaboration, and leadership within professional software development contexts, revealing the gap between classroom knowledge and professional practice, and raising new questions about what it means to contribute to something that outlasts the contributor.
Tobore Takpor	Security Engineer at McDonald's
	Cybersecurity plays an important role in strengthening security operations within a global organization. The internship included projects involving security reporting, data automation, artificial intelligence, and dashboard development. A major project focused on designing an AI agent using Microsoft Copilot Studio, Power Automate, and JSON structured data to organize security asset information, asset value, criticality, and ownership. Security dashboards were developed to improve visibility into organizational initiatives and support data driven decision making. The experience provided hands on development in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, automation, data analytics, problem solving, and collaboration while demonstrating how technology can improve security operations and organizational efficiency.
Pride Techa	Data, Policy, and Public Safety: My Experience as a Data Science Intern at Virginia Tech
	Recognizing California's rising pedestrian death toll, the state enacted Assembly Bill 413 in October 2023, the “daylighting law”. This law prohibits the parking, standing, or stopping of a vehicle within 20 feet of marked or unmarked crosswalks, or within 15 feet of curb extensions. The law took effect in January 2024 with a one-year warning period before citation-based enforcement began in January 2025. As a team of two undergraduate interns, a graduate mentor, and a faculty lead, we employed a causal inference model, Regression Discontinuity in Time, to estimate any sudden change in crash outcomes at the policy implementation dates. We observed a statistically significant decrease in pedestrian crashes at the start of both phases, but there were no statistically significant changes in bicycle-related crashes.
Michael Vargas	Systems Engineer: Nexbank
	This poster presents the technical and professional growth that I achieved during my summer internship at NexBank, one of the largest privately held banks in Texas. As a Systems Engineer intern, I was responsible for building out comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure documentation from the ground up, covering Disaster Recovery policies, protection policies, and system configurations to meet corporate auditing standards. Through independent research using Microsoft, Amazon AWS, and TryHackMe, where I completed a full Security Engineering certification, I developed a strong foundation in cloud engineering. This internship confirmed my career direction, strengthened my professional communication skills, and connected my academic coursework to real world technical practice.
Aaron Whitaker	Contributing to Runestone Academy
	For my summer 2026 internship, I worked for Runestone Academy, an open-source learning platform with free interactive textbooks. During the internship, I contributed to the development of an open-source artificial intelligence textbook with three other interns and our supervisor. We built the book from scratch by adapting open-access sources into PreTeXt and then adding interactive exercises. While I expected to do a lot of programming, I learned that computer science involves much more. I developed skills in development workflows, PreTeXt, and technical writing while strengthening my communication, teamwork, time management, and ability to produce quality work through peer review.
Denys Zhytov	Software Engineering Intern
	During Summer 2026, I worked as a Software Engineering Intern on Berea College’s 14-person Student Software Development Team. I gained hands-on experience developing software in a collaborative environment and working on solutions used by students and staff across campus. My main project involved taking a problem from the Labor Department from an initial idea through development and into a finished product. I created a solution that replaced a time-consuming manual process for managing department allocations, which eliminated more than 100 hours of manual work annually. This experience strengthened my interest in backend development and gave me a better understanding of professional software engineering.