Enrichment Spotlight: KGSP senior Wjdan Alharthi develops App through Microsoft Garage internship
In summer 2017, Wjdan was selected for a competitive eight-week internship program with Microsoft Corporation, working as a software engineer at the Microsoft Garage in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Wjdan joined other engineering, design, and project manager interns on a student team sponsored by Xamarin—a Microsoft-owned software company that builds mobile apps—who assigned the team a specific project to tackle: Speeding up the prototyping process steps from idea to creation in app development. Wijdan and her team worked to develop an app that utilized a specialized pen that renders physical drawings into a coded design that can be easily exported. By the end of her internship, Wjdan and her fellow interns successfully developed the Ink to Code app, which is currently available at Microsoft stores for download and use!
Project video:
App pages:
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/profiles/ink-to-code/
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/blog/2018/01/napkin-disrupted-meet-ink-code-microsoft-garage-project/
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