Activities
Activities
AIS Mentorship Program
I had a great experience with the AIS mentorship program. My mentor, Makena, helped me learn more about MIS and what else I should be doing on my own to improve my resume, such as more coding languages and programs. It also helped encourage me to attend more events such as the IT Career Fair and other networking opportunities. I think it is an amazing program that everyone in AIS should be a part of to learn more about MIS and network with other students. Any student new to MIS, or even an upperclassman with lots of experience can learn something from it.
Data Analytics Challenge
An event I participated in was the data analytics challenge. My group and I worked with clinical trial data to answer the question of what made clinical trials successful. It was a great experience organizing the data, cleaning it, and doing research about the topic to get a deeper understanding of the topic we were given. We eventually decided our criteria for a ‘successful’ clinical trial, and created an infographic that answered the question. That infographic can be seen on my Interests page.
COVID-19 Panel
In April of 2020 I was lucky enough to attend an online panel regarding how COVID-19 has affected the world of Information Technology hosted by IBIT. I learned a lot about how this pandemic has affected IT and the business world specifically. I learned how some companies have adapted well to a work-from-home culture and see not much difference in work after the pandemic. This surprised me because I pictured all companies being affected as most still have lots of employees that work in offices and come into work every day. It makes sense that many companies were prepared as working remotely/from home is more common as technology and video conferencing software has enabled this. However, many companies are struggling and a panelist shared how according to a survey done by PwC, 53% of CFOs are seeing profit loss due to the pandemic. This has changed the concept of physical office space, as some organizations see it as more of an expense if they can keep employees working remotely.