Miranda Go (she/her)

Miranda is a current undergraduate at the University of California, San Diego, majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Mathematics and Cognitive Science. This upcoming year, she will be finishing her Bachelors degree and starting her Masters in Computer Science, focusing her research in Computer Science education, specifically for introductory courses. This is her second internship with Google. She started as an Engineering Practicum intern on an SRE team and is currently on the Google Cloud Platform team for Microsoft Active Directory.

“I knew I wanted to be in the tech industry in 7th grade. At that point in my life, I was fascinated with technology and how much of an impact it made on people socially. As I continued my journey through college, I realized that I not only wanted to be in the tech industry, but specifically in the EdTech [Education Tech] industry. After seeing how much I enjoyed tutoring and teaching others how to code, I knew that I wanted to continue to make a difference in people's lives by teaching them how to be digitally literate.”

Source of inspiration: My a cappella group, The Treble Singers! Not only are the members a daily inspiration and encouragement to keep working hard and doing my best in everything I do, but singing together and hearing how the harmonies all work together always brings me joy and allows me to think through anything I may be struggling with.

Su Yang (she/her)

Su interned at Instagram, Microsoft, and Raptor Maps before joining the Google Maps team as a software engineering intern. Even though she is now a rising senior at MIT with a lot of programming experience, she didn’t begin her journey knowing the most in the room.

"All the boys I knew growing up talked constantly about their Lenovos, Motorola Razrs, and Minecraft servers. I could beat them at algebra but couldn’t tell you the first thing about computers. So I started teaching myself how to code, mostly out of spite, but also because I wanted to make my Neopets page look cooler. I didn’t get exposed to computer science or software engineering until halfway through my freshman year of college, when I decided to take an intro web development class on a whim. I ended up hacking together a language-learning platform with some friends. It was incredibly empowering to bootstrap an app with almost no prior knowledge. Being able to see your own logic manifest itself into tangibles that can help further the world is still one of the reasons I’m in tech today."

Source of Inspiration: Su is endlessly inspired by the people around her who pour everything they have into what they do, whether that’s a passion project or a 45-minute workout class.

Book Recommendation: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann