Lead Facilitator, Berkeley Unboxing Data Science (BUDS) (Summer 2023)

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of ten student interns from historically underrepresented backgrounds in STEM through a rigorous, hands-on enrichment program to develop their understanding of the computational approaches, applications, and possibilities of data science and data analytics on a personal and societal level
• Mentored interns through individual projects implementing the data science life cycle, from gathering publicly available data to cleaning and critically analyzing the data in Jupyter Notebooks with Python to presenting their research findings
• Collaborated with the two faculty directors to enhance the internship experience by transitioning from a remote to an in-person format and integrating external workshops featuring guest speakers from industry and academia
• Mentored two associate group facilitators and met with them throughout the program to discuss effective pedagogy techniques and professional development

A GitHub repository of program materials is available here, and a press release from the Summer 2021 program is available here.