“Shodor gave me a good background with Java and programming. I also developed professionally … having to meet deadlines and have workgroups definitely helped as I moved to college.”
“Shodor helped open my eyes to various resources available for Mathematics Teachers (i.e. Interactive). In addition, Shodor helped me gain valuable professional experience, working with others, and gaining greater confidence in my understanding of technology (which was very small when I came).”
“I was very shy when I began at Shodor, but I was thrown into the work with many other interns. I learned to open up and become more comfortable with myself, in order to become more comfortable working with others .”
“I believe my experience at Shodor offers me limitless opportunities . I am so excited because my future is so optimistic. I have so many possibilities.”
“Shodor nurtured... my interest in programming, without which I would not have been able to do the work that I am doing now. There is a direct line between the skills I learned at Shodor and the success in college and beyond .”
“I gained on a lot of... understanding of how to program something that will be used by others. Also, I learned about the importance of computational science and how teaching it can be very difficult if you don’t have the right information and materials... It was a great experience to have to plan classes and code with others...”
“Shodor provides the possibility for interns to work on a wide variety of different projects and develop a unique set of skills. I was able to develop technical ability in software development writing really cool software—and at the same time would be planning and teaching lessons for the middle school math workshops during the summer.”
“Shodor... provided the freedom to explore my interests in technology in ways that I did not have an opportunity to in school. Take advantage of the opportunity to work closely with Shodor’s scientists – this experience doing research and presenting your ideas effectively will be very valuable moving forward.”
“Shodor helped me in many ways. First off, through Shodor, I became more competent in using computers and in programming in several languages. In addition, Shodor improved my team-working skills , as I was often working with several other people on a project, and so I had to collaborate with these other people in order to successfully complete the project.”
“I could write a book on the many ways Shodor helped me, but I’ll stick with the main points: I learned how to best approach a project that I wasn’t completely sure how to do; I learned how to work with other people ; I learned how to use OS X and Unix, which has completely changed the way I use computers ; I learned how to rely on meta-cognitive abilities, which are infinitely more important in the real world than cognitive ones.”