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Microsoft intern in Philadelphia for ISTE (and how to get an internship)
Microsoft flew me to the ISTE ed-tech conference in Philadelphia to present the project I built during my previous internship in partnership with NASA. During my layover in Phoenix, I decided to explain what I think is needed to get an internship in big tech companies.
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https://aka.ms/20yrsinspace (it's the one about microgravity)
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[Music] good morning everybody today I'm flying to Philadelphia it's almost 6 a.m. and I'm on my way to the airport I'll explain what this trip is all about once I get there that's where I'm going I just passed the gate and I'm getting pretty hairy so next up get some food [Music] [Applause] [Music] I just arrived and he needs another six-hour layover so I mean you're going downtown [Music] it's really hot here in Phoenix and I think it never said one I'm doing this week to Philadelphia so I'm actually going for the ISDN conference to present my previous project I made at Microsoft as an internship so I'm going to talk more about it once I get there but for now I want to talk how I got this internship I think there are three things that you can do to get more chances of getting internships in big tech companies the first one is hard work second one is fashion and the first one is perseverance big tech companies tend to look less and less to your grid and more about the experience you got by yourself before my second point is all about passion and by passion I don't chisholm passion the company I also mean passion about the technology customer feedback a honing language in much more my last foot is all about perseverance I actually got roof rejected the first time I got to the final interviews for Microsoft but looking back to it I'm actually really grateful that I got rejected because it led me another year to learn more and also perform better when I went back for the internship so enough of me talking about take now let's visit a big Phoenix before I go back to the airport and take my next flight [Music] [Music] I just got pencil-neck Convention Center where is this hill iced tea is the biggest etiquette conference so I'm excited to go and see the expo [Music] [Music] Microsoft behind me is huge and located rather the entrance so it's pretty exciting being here in this pool of the amazing [Music] I just finished my first day at Convention it was way more exhausting than I expected it to be but it was really fun seeing that teacher really appreciated the app and work with it for it so now I'm going around downtown to visit little bit and see the history and the old buildings here and then you can go for supper and go back to the hotel because my jet light is hitting [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I just realized the last 15 minutes I've been walking in the wrong direction so now I'm back on path but it allowed me to find a lot of nice little places like this alley I just found out that there's not enough innovation inside of a mediation space but see preference like this one is really encouraging to see that from small startups like our third book to huge company like Microsoft Google they're all in love all and making sure learning process later students in the community so let's go see what I'm doing it here is my booth I'm presenting the project and created of seven other interns at the garage internship in Vancouver our art teaches mutant second and third law in microgravity so there's five scenes the first one explained what is f MA in Newton's second law then we have a different scene where we can have different gravities to see how at fixed trajectory then there's a scene about a momentum of how objects react when they hit each other the last one is to get a feel of how objects collide in cyberspace so if when you push an object you get pushed back in yes my move is only about one of the lesson plans there's in total eight lesson plans filled by Microsoft and in partnership with NASA here they are around me [Music] so before I see ended I wanted to say thanks to my team that made actually this project we are a reality and also worked really hard on it during the last four months so thank you to the holo-book our Adrienne Sabrina and crystal and Vivek I stayed just finishin it was a really incredible experience so we had a chance to Ferb doing user testing in schools during our internship at the crash but being here and having all the other great companies around and also customers Communion and creatures testing the project and seeing how happy they were with the result was really incredible experience I just realized I'm yeah and you even have a Philly cheesesteak so [Music] people that know me know that I'm pretty clumsy and this ship with Italy going too well for me so this afternoon I dropped a la coffee on my casa shirt that I have to wear other confidence so I hope I can clean up tonight and get it ready for tomorrow [Music] [Music] [Music] I'm now heading back to the airport to go back to thank Cooper so if you liked this video like subscribe and share and also see you in the next one [Music]
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- (it's the one about microgravity)
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What is this video about?
This trip to Philadelphia was something special—Microsoft flew me out to present the project I built during my previous internship, and it's been at the ISTE education-technology conference. It's a really exciting opportunity to see teachers and educators interacting with the work my team and I created.
But during my layover in Phoenix, I wanted to dive into something I get asked about constantly: how do you actually get an internship at a big tech company? I think there are three things that matter most. The first is hard work—doing projects outside of school, building things you're genuinely interested in, and pushing yourself to learn. The second is passion—and I don't just mean passion for the company, but real passion for the technology itself, the problems you're solving, and the impact you're making. The third is perseverance. I got rejected when I interviewed for Microsoft the first time, and honestly, I'm grateful for it now. That rejection gave me another year to learn more and come back stronger.
As for the project itself: during my internship in the Microsoft Garage in Vancouver, I worked with seven other interns to create an interactive educational app in partnership with NASA. It teaches Newton's second and third laws in microgravity using HoloLens technology. There are five different scenes—one explains what microgravity is, another lets you experiment with different gravity levels, there's a momentum scene, and finally one where you feel what happens when objects collide in space. The whole experience was created in partnership with eight detailed lesson plans developed by Microsoft and NASA.
Being at ISTE and watching teachers and students interact with what we built was incredible. Seeing their reactions, knowing the project is actually being used in classrooms—that's what makes the internship experience worth everything. And of course, I managed to drop coffee on my presentation shirt the day before, because apparently I'm incapable of getting through a trip without some kind of minor disaster.