CodeDay Labs

CodeDay Labs is the 100% online tech internship for everyone.

Monday, June 27 — Friday, August 5

Applications open: Tuesday, February 1
Deadline: Monday, June 13, 3:00 PM UTC
Last decisions: Thursday, June 16, 3:00 PM UTC (most will be earlier)

Dream of working at a top tech company? Join us!

Work with your mentor & two other students.

Tell us what you love in technology, and where you want your career to take you. We'll match you with the perfect industry mentor and up to two other students at your skill level.

(Beginner-track attendees: we'll match you with a former intern from a tech company who has time to provide you with more support.)

Create or contribute to real-world, open-source projects.

Learn to ship real software that helps real people using the latest industry tools. (Ever wondered what “Kubernetes” is? Or how to set up a GraphQL backend in Typescript?)

It's like a real-world internship at a leading tech company, but 100% online.

Spotifaves

Mentor: Shakeel Mohamed, Splunk

Accountability Buddy

Mentor: Pete Bekos, NDA

PKGsquirrel

Mentor: Pranay Gupta, Axon

News Analyzer

Mentor: Sam Belcastro, Microsoft

Phishing Campaign Security Platform

Mentor: Nicholas Tong, Amsys Innovative Solutions

Engage for Change

Mentor: Meredith Lampe, Facebook

Castway

Mentor: Michael Lorton, Outschool

Meeting Ground

Mentor: Michael Lorton, Outschool

Scoutsman

Mentor: Quinten Geddes, Independent contractor at NextEra Analytics

AI Driven Drug Discovery

Mentor: Yang Wei, QM Simulations

Daily tech talks, career panels, and more.

What do recruiters look for when you meet them? How does Microsoft deploy machine learning modules? What does a day-in-the-life look like for a technical artist?

CodeDay Labs has daily opportunities to learn from leaders and build a professional network.

Get ready to land your dream job or internship next year.

Our students have daily opportunities to do practice interviews and get resume feedback from tech hiring managers and recruiters.

Multiple tracks. What's your experience level?

Beginner Track

A guided experience which is best for people with some CS knowledge, but who don't have prior experience working on complex projects.

This is probably the right track for you if you're a high school student who's taken AP CS A or equivalent course, or a college student with 101-level experience in CS or Engineering.

You'll work with an older student, a current/former tech intern, who will guide you through your first experience building something with real-world implications.

($250 fee if accepted; many scholarships available.)

Intermediate/Advanced Track

This track is the most similar to a traditional in-person internship, for those students who have higher-level CS knowledge or significant experience building projects.

This is the right track for you if you're a college student with experience beyond the 101/102-level CS or Engineering classes, or a student who has built projects on your own time.

You'll be matched with a mentor from the technology industry, like at most traditional in-person internships, and will build a polished app/feature.

(No fee; not a paid internship.)

We've helped thousands of students get their start in technology since 2009.

I loved being able to work as a team and gain real world experience about coding but at the same time also having the opportunity to learn something new.

Kelly Dong, Labs Advanced-Track

Being a Venezuelan immigrant, Labs was the first time that I got true exposure to a community of tech people that I could rely on. Fast forward a couple of years and now I'm three and a half months away from graduating college and have a job as a SWE at the Microsoft HQ right after I graduate.

Daniel Lobaton, Labs Beginner-Track

I began my CodeDay Labs internship with no background in using React Native, but came out of this internship knowing the ins and outs of React Native thanks to my team and my mentor, Eric. I highly recommend CodeDay Labs as a chance to apply your knowledge to real-world applications

Vivian Wang, Labs Beginner-Track

I really enjoyed learning how to use new technology such as Angular, Node, Sequelize, and Joi. Working with my teammates and interacting with each other was one of my favorite parts of this internship. Just helping each other out, working, learning, and growing together as developers was really great. Also the mentor was very helpful.

Alain Nshimirimana, Labs Advanced-Track

My experience as a CodeDay Labs intern certainly exceeded my expectations. My favorite part about being an intern was getting to learn and work with Python Django. I found working with Django to be difficult yet also fun. At the beginning of the internship, because I only had experience with ReactJS, I thought I would only be working on the frontend component of the app which we built. However, I ended up only working with ReactJS (i.e. the frontend) for about a week before I became responsible for the backend. I'm really glad I got this exposure because I found that I enjoy working with backend-related stuff.

Amy Ghotra, Labs Advanced-Track

Past Student Projects

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Krino
Advanced Track

Mentor: Tim Van Cleave, Engineer at SPS Commerce

As a photographer one of the most important things you can do is share your work to build a reputation for yourself, but often it's not as easy to get well-organized feedback about your work from others. If you want to improve your art, either as a professional or just a casual enthusiast, it's extremely important to get your work in front of others so you can keep improving.

This project aims to solve this problem by creating a site where photographers can upload their portfolio and then have fellow photographers leave comments about things that can be improved, things they like, etc.

Key user requirements are:
* Users can upload their own photos and display them in a clean, easy to view way.
* This includes the users display name, home city, etc.
* (optional) use the photo's EXIF data to display information about the camera, lens, and other settings interesting to a photographer. Location information would be super cool as well!
* Users can indicate that they want only some of their photos to be reviewed by others
* Users can leave comments on individual photos where a review is requested

This project will teach a variety of useful technical skills, including:
* Developing a clean, fast API using Django and Django Rest Framework
* Uploading photos to a cloud hosting service like S3
* Modern React web app development, including using component libraries and other tools to simplify development
* User-centered design throughout the project
* AGILE best practices (don't worry, just a light version!)
* Having fun while making something awesome!

LiDAR Data Visualization
Advanced Track

Mentor: Omar Shehata, Graphics engineer at Cesium

Create a web app to visualize LiDAR data from self driving cars.

LiDAR is a way of obtaining an accurate 3D representation of a scene, often used in self driving cars to detect their surroundings. Lyft recently released a large dataset of sensor readings from their self driving car work: https://level5.lyft.com/dataset/

Most analysis done on data like this is done without visualizing all the data together, because it's in different formats/too large to efficiently visualize in real time. This project would involve taking this data, converting it to a standard format that Cesium's pipeline can ingest (likely using Python since it has many of the helper libraries you'll need), and then building an application to visualize it in 3D using Cesium's JavaScript library.

This would not only help people get more insight out of this particular dataset, but would provide a framework for anyone doing self driving car analysis to see their result and share their research. For inspiration you can see how people are analyzing this data in this Kaggle competition:

https://www.kaggle.com/c/3d-object-detection-for-autonomous-vehicles/discussion/109415

Falling Sand
Beginner Track

Mentor: Charlie Liu, Student at Yale University

Ever heard of a "falling sand" game? (if not, check this out: https://sandspiel.club) Not only is this a really fun project to work on, but it also incorporates several topics outside of CS, such as physics and basic biology concepts. The project also doesn't have to mimic the traditional "falling sand" style - it could incorporate some twist or new element, such as adding a "person" character or drawing some inspiration from the Sugar, Sugar game (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWCkmqUaZpM). Ready to start building your own sandbox world?

Learn From Experts & Build Your Network

Tuesday, June 29

4:30 PM UTC

0 attending

Onboarding

Live Javascript Introduction

Presented by Tyler Menezes

Wednesday, June 30

4:30 PM UTC

0 attending

Onboarding

Live Python Introduction

Presented by Tyler Menezes

Thursday, July 1

4:30 PM UTC

1 attending

Onboarding

Live React Introduction

Presented by Tyler Menezes

Friday, July 2

4:30 PM UTC

10 attending

Onboarding

Live REST APIs Introduction

Presented by Tyler Menezes

Monday, July 5

4:00 PM UTC

27 attending

AMA

Navigating Your Career In Tech

Presented by Gift Egwuenu (Frontend Developer Consultant based in the Netherlands)

Monday, July 5

6:00 PM UTC

18 attending

CodeDay Labs is the 100% online tech internship for everyone.

Dream of working at a top tech company? Join us!

Work with your mentor & two other students.

Create or contribute to real-world, open-source projects.

Daily tech talks, career panels, and more.

Get ready to land your dream job or internship next year.

Multiple tracks. What's your experience level?

Beginner Track

Intermediate/Advanced Track

We've helped thousands of students get their start in technology since 2009.

Past Student Projects

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LiDAR Data VisualizationAdvanced Track

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Learn From Experts & Build Your Network

Krino
Advanced Track

LiDAR Data Visualization
Advanced Track

Falling Sand
Beginner Track