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Generally, we are limited to employing legal adults (minimum 18 years in most jurisdictions, 16 in states like California) as interns, working no more than 40 hours per week. Occasionally, younger candidates such as high school/secondary school students (16-17 year olds) may express interest in internship opportunities as well. Please contact our VP of People and Culture to discuss exceptions.
Just as with regular employees, interns are subject to HIPAA requirements. In spite of thisNevertheless, it may be best to isolate their work so that it does not touch any PHI data.
Intern Impact
In prior years, Tidepool has also asked interns to do an informal brown bag / birds-of-feather presentation of their work at the conclusion of their internship. Some even blog about their experience. No matter how it is delivered, this gives the interns yet another valuable opportunity to stretch their skills, in addition to helping leave us with nicely packaged results. Here is a list of some past Tidepool Intern Alumni and their projects:
Maya Friedman shared a collaboration with Amanda Jo Fisher (Deactivated) and Former user (Deleted) about menstruation and diabetes (data).
Tejasvi Desai shared an overview of her work and what she learned as a Product Manager Intern. She was mentored by Kelly Watson and Amanda Jo Fisher (Deactivated).
Eden Grown-Haeberli made improvements to our marketing website and documented the entire process in her first summer (as a high school student). In her second summer, she wrote additional tools that launched the Tidepool Big Data Donation program. She was mentored by Lennart Goedhart (Deactivated), and is now a student at Stanford.
Anna Quinlan wrote PyLoopKit, a Python port of the Loop algorithm, and developed it into a great tool for simulating and visualizing different scenarios after graduating from high school. She was mentored in parts by Ed Nykaza (Deactivated), Pete Schwamb, and Lennart Goedhart (Deactivated), and is now a student at Stanford.
Michael Pangburn is a Loop iOS developer, being mentored by Pete, and is a student at Cal Poly SLO. He interned with Apple Summer 2019, and returned to Tidepool Fall 2019-Summer 2020. In August 2020, he joined Apple full time.
Courtenay Huffman did Front-End work in React, mentored by Clint Beacock. We found Courtenay through the JDRF internship program.
Karina Goot wrote dfaker, a test data generator. She went on to be a Site Reliability Engineer at Google, and is now at Lyft.
Ethan Look wrote the first version of Tidepool Mobile for iOS (formerly known as Blip Notes, without really having a mentor, which wasn't great…) during his first summer internship. In his next summer, he wrote command line data tools that later turned into the TBDDP, mentored by Brandon Arbiter. He's now at Google.
Nancy Kao, a design intern, produced this awesome video.
JP Reilly, a student at Stanford, prototyped the web UI for prescription flow. He was mentored by Thacher Hussain (Deactivated) and Kelly Watson.
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