Let’s begin.
Summer Internship 2019
Hello World. This is your Summer Internship’19 Team speaking.
This week we’ve been tagging along with the Nest Collective folks. We began our Summer Internship and want to tell about this start of a new journey.
The team
This year, our team is formed by three amazing designers and three outstanding developers. 😎
Starting with me, I’m Maria Moreira. I study Design & Multimedia at the University of Coimbra. I am an extrovert girl and I always like to give my opinion and try to make a difference. I moved to Coimbra three years ago and it was great, it changed me on a personal and professional level. With this internship, I hope to continue to grow and even show my skills as a chef (since I’m the best cook in our department). 👩🍳
Miguel Vasconcelos is also a Design & Multimedia student, also enjoys cooking and eating pasta every day and making funny faces when a camera is around him. 🍝
Andriana Peresta is taking her master's degree in Design & Multimedia at the University of Coimbra. She is obsessed with dogs and genuinely wants to have at least 7 of them when she gets her own place. She considers herself a perfectionist and says that it’s a blessing and a curse at the same time.
Last but not least we have the developers.
Andre Caseiro, he’s a 17-year-old 🔞, he just finished high school in a programming course and was previously doing an internship with Redlight Software. Oh and likes videogames.
Luis Silva is a 1st-year Informatics Engineering student at the University of Coimbra. He loves snowboarding and listening to music.
Diogo Ferrer is a 2nd-year Informatics Engineering student at the University of Coimbra. He’s always looking for new and challenging stuff to learn. As for hobbies, he likes playing classical music, reading and playing some videogames.
We got everything to make it work. 😅
Day zero
We started by attending a presentation from all Nest Collective companies. We met many Nest Collective co-workers and we were told how things would work during the summer.
We went on a tour of the uptown offices and finished the day in the best way: we had a sunset on Nest’s enviable rooftop balcony with a panoramic view of Coimbra accompanied by @thelunarsouls, with live music, tasty snacks, cold beer, and fresh sangria.
Training week
Let’s move on to the first week, where our attention was directed to lots of training courses designed especially for us by our mentors. These mentors, who belong to different Nest companies, will help and support us throughout the product we are building.
The trainings approached several topics, such as HTML, SASS + CSS Grid, Ruby on Rails, Data Bases & ORM, UI/UX, Responsive Design, Processes, Design Systems and Prototyping, and finally, JavaScript + React. As you can see, it was a diverse multitude of topics. This way we can start the internship’s project with good foundations.
Designers and developers, everyone learned a little bit of everything. It was pointed out that being knowledgeable of someone else’s work and understanding it is beneficial for both parties. And yes, time is very short, but a big effort is being made so we can learn as much as possible. Besides all this, our mentors were super nice by providing us with the presentations, guides and resources that they use themselves. (Thank you for that. 🤗)
We were knees deep in learning, so when we took the time to see what day it was, it was Friday already and the training week was over.
Look forward to more news and see you soon! 😎
