My internship experience at MAD-learn has been a huge learning experience for me. This internship has taught me the ins and outs of corporate work while providing a nurturing environment to learn in. I went in only interested in one thing, but during my time at MADlearn, I have also started to pick up new interests such as digital design. I have created new designs to be used and implemented on the company’s website.
The weekly and monthly meetings have taught me how to collaborate with my colleagues and that if I wanted to be part company projects being worked on, I would have to reach out to my colleagues to be a part of the projects. I quickly realized that my internship experience was going to be as fruitful as I made it. So, after my slow first week, I tried to engage more with my colleagues. I set up one-on-one meetings with them to ask about what projects they were a part of and if I could join them.
This is a small company, which means that I was asked to do tasks ranging from social media marketing and research to digital design and coding. I was also able to test out a new AI feature that was going to be integrated into the website, and I gave feedback to improve the feature. This whole internship experience has taught me leadership qualities such as how to coordinate with others and the importance of communication.