Category: Spark! News

Winter Demo Day: Fellows Gallery

Winter Demo Day was a success! Around 70 supporters attended, 17 Spark! teams competed, and 31 mentors and partners made it happen. Various groups from Spark!’s eXperience Lab (X-Lab) Practicum course and students from the Spark! Innovation Fellowship showcased their projects during Demo Day and all teams participated for prizes during the pitch session of […]

Spark! Welcomes its First Engineer in Residence

Spark! and the BU Hariri Institute for Computing are excited to welcome Langdon White, a Platform Architect at Redhat Inc, as our new Engineer in Residence! Langdon has been an executive, architect, and developer for over 150+ projects. Students are welcome to pick Langdon’s brain on topics including but not limited to open-source software projects, data science, machine […]

Soylent Sparkian of August

  This month’s Soylent Sparkian of the month is Gur Asees Singh (right). Gur Asees is a graduate student in the College of Arts & Sciences and is a Spark! Fellow. The grad student showed admirable initiative and commitment to the projects that he took on this summer as part of the Spark! Fellowship.  

August Spark! Fellows Feature

Spark! students are multifaceted and exceptionally driven. Fellows selected to be part of the Spark! Fellowship have the opportunity to work on projects that impact their local community, join others, and even start their own ventures! Our Spark! fellow pictured here is Helen. Helen is from Queens, New York and is a senior studying Computer […]