GLOBAL INNOVATION AND DESIGN INTERNSHIP

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The Global Innovation and Design (GID) Internship is an outstanding competitive opportunity for students to gain professional experience working directly with community organizations. Students earn micro credentials, receive a $750 stipend, and academic credit, while developing need finding, problem solving, facilitation, and presentation skills. More importantly, students gain a deep and empathetic understanding of community issues, while broadening their knowledge of innovations around the world. The competitive opportunity is open to all UW Tacoma students.

A micro-credential is a credential that verifies the achievement of skills and competencies.

Upon completing a micro-credential, students will receive a dynamic digital badge. The badge link will include information about the issuing institution, date earned, criteria for earning the badge, and evidence of meeting those criteria. Digital badges can be displayed on social media platforms like LinkedIn, added as links to a resume, or embedded in an e-portfolio.

Deadline for Fall Quarter 2024: June 8
Deadline for Winter Quarter 2025: November 25
Deadline for Spring Quarter 2025: March 2

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MEET OUR FALL 2024 INTERNS!

Jack Cheung

Hello UWT! My name is Jack Cheung, and I’m one of the seven interns who are working with the Global Innovation and Design Lab this Quarter. I’m a junior majoring in Information Technology and minoring in Innovation and Design. I’m also a digital art hobbyist, enjoy papercrafts, and am a casual comics and model kit collector. Whenever I find the free time, you’ll probably find me hammering away at a personal project relating to one of the three. I love working on complex projects and I like to push myself to make my work as fun and unorthodox as possible. I aspire to work in UI/UX, and I hope to apply design thinking to work I do in that field. I’m particularly interested in and strongly value the appeal of interactivity and fun when designing user experiences, and I hope to emphasize these aspects in the designs I create in the future. I think that playful design is a compelling way to make user experience more enjoyable and fun, and I hope to explore that in my studies.

Anuvir Dhaliwal

Hi, I am Anuvir! Majoring in Writing Studies with a focus in Technical Communication as well as a minor in Innovation & Design, I love working with technology. I am often inspired by the world of UX design and innovative design thinking encouraged by the GID Lab!

Maria Villa

Hello, my name is Maria Belen Villa and I am a senior technical writing major and minoring in global innovation and design in my second year at the University of Washington Tacoma. I am grateful to have received a GID Lab internship for Spring 2024 as it provides me with the opportunity to expand my horizons by creating, imagining, impacting community, and making lives easier. This internship has introduced me to the many ways UX design and technical writing are rooted in human design. Technical writing assists in the communication of complex information to users in the most straight forward way, providing them with instructions and information that they can employ when using a product. Design thinking is important because of our innate ability to find ways to make things easier. As a society, we love to make things effortless. As the saying goes, ‘work smarter, not harder’. I am excited to use design thinking to make our work and experiences effortless, and the outcomes more helpful.

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Earn a Digital Badge

MEET OUR FALL 2024 INTERNS!

Jack Cheung

Anuvir Dhaliwal

Maria Villa