A Tech Pipeline Program at Brooklyn College Leads Computer Science Majors to Success

As part of a much wider effort to assist construct a nice talent pool of tech experts for New York City businesses, Brooklyn College, running with NYC Tech Talent Pipeline, offers computer technological know-how students the opportunity to receive on-the-job schooling at leading groups. Begun within the summer time of 2020 and administered with the aid of the Department of Computer and Information Science and the Magner Career Center, the TTP (The Tech Talent Pipeline Blackboard ) Residency @ Brooklyn College is a aggressive program that has placed extra than 60 students in 3-month internships that give them treasured profession revel in.

Students join inside the residency and participate in pre-internship schooling in web development as well as gentle skills inclusive of powerful verbal exchange, teamwork, and leadership. After the pre-internship course, college students entire paid internships as net and cell developers or software engineers, with connections to task opportunities after they graduate. The students aren't the simplest ones to benefit from the program as treasured comments from host businesses can help Brooklyn College higher align its tech program with the body of workers wishes of employers, in particular in New York City.

“The TTP program offers college students a competitive edge in a fantastically sought out area,” says Natalia Guarin-Klein, director of the Magner Career Center. “And folks who undergo this system are able to contribute to the tech atmosphere in New York City.”

Senior Dennis Klimenkov interned at The Washington Post via the TTP program. “Even with my initiatives, a excessive GPA, and network paintings, I had hassle getting interviews at agencies because I had no enjoy,” says Klimenkov, who's president of the Brooklyn College Computer Science Club. As part of the TTP Residency, he took a pre-internship course that helped him construct on what he had already found out about Web improvement. After the residency he became selected for the internship. “Those months on the Washington Post had been the first-rate of my existence. I found out so many cool technologies and established professional connections,” says Klimenkov, who has been provided an internship extension with an offer for full-time function at the newspaper upon commencement.

Thierno souleymane Diallo ’21, a local of Guinea, determined the method of in search of an internship daunting due to the fact he become unexpected with process-hunting inside the United States. A buddy previously enrolled inside the application prompted him to do it. The TTP Residency helped him even earlier than starting his internship on the actual-estate corporation Zillow, in which he'll begin operating complete-time in January 2022. “The [pre-internship seminar] helps you to be assured, teaches you a way to specific [yourself], how to price your self,” says Diallo. “It prepares you to be an awesome healthy for any activity that you would really like to have.”

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