Our intern program kicked off last week, as we welcomed six new faces to the BTI360 team. Intern season (aka “summer”) is a favorite time of the year around here! We meet so many sharp students as we recruit on college campuses, and we are glad we can spend the summer investing in a handful of them.

Initially we weren’t sure what COVID-19 would mean for our internship plans, but we’ve been able to seamlessly transition the program online. We are excited to offer a summer packed with technical workshops, mentoring relationships, free meals, and interesting project work.

Without further ado, please welcome the 2020 intern class!

HOLLY

University of Virginia
What’s your programming pet peeve? forgetting one parenthesis or semicolon that messes everything up
What is getting you through quarantine? painting and anime
What is your go-to intern lunch? pb&j and carrots
Tabs or spaces? Depends on the day

COLIN

Frostburg State University
What’s your programming pet peeve? Opening braces on new lines
What is getting you through quarantine? The Witcher, Bioshock
What is your go-to intern lunch? Ramen Noodles and Chef Boyardee Ravioli
Tabs or spaces? Tabs (that automatically turn into spaces)

MICHAEL

University of Virginia
What’s your programming pet peeve? When everyone has different code formatters on the same team. Especially when their code formatters autoformat the code so when they push their commits it looks like they changed the entire file
What is getting you through quarantine? Breath of the Wild
What is your go-to intern lunch? Whatever leftovers we have from dinner yesterday lol
Tabs or spaces? Tabs

BRANDON

University of Maryland, College Park
What’s your programming pet peeve? Error messages that don’t give you any direction. Hey SQL
What is getting you through quarantine? Movies, COD: Warzone, Nintendo Switch
What is your go-to intern lunch? The sheer will to learn, and microwave mac and cheese
Tabs or spaces? Tabs! Spaces requiring too much clicking

RICHARD

University of Virginia
What’s your programming pet peeve? When an IDE throws an error when I’m in the middle of typing a word or line of code
What is getting you through quarantine? Comic books and old Justice League cartoons
What is your go-to intern lunch? Microwave Annie’s mac and cheese
Tabs or spaces? Tabs

KEVIN

University of Virginia
What’s your programming pet peeve? unhelpful errors that barely tell you anything (looking at you segfault)
What is getting you through quarantine? playing music and video games with some anime thrown in there
What is your go-to intern lunch? coffee, a hastily made turkey sandwich, and coffee
Tabs or spaces? 100% tabs