Booz Allen Hamilton’s Summer Games

More than 7,000 students applied. Just 400 of the most creative minds were selected. The prize is a 10-week opportunity to participate in Booz Allen Hamilton’s Summer Games, a fun, intense and competitive internship program that assesses each student’s interests, passions and skill sets before assigning them to project teams that align best with each individual’s goals. The following posts are part of a series of stories written by Booz Allen Hamilton’s Summer Games interns.

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From Disaster Relief to Public Health: Booz Allen Interns are Changing the World for the Better
This month, nearly 400 talented university students from across the country join Booz Allen Hamilton as Summer Games interns. Over the next 10 weeks, they’ll compete to solve 85 tough challenges. Their ultimate goal? To change the world.

Innovation & Technology

DC Inno Spotlights Booz Allen’s Summer Games Internship Program
Students who participate in Booz Allen Hamilton’s unique Summer Games internship program have the freedom to capitalize on their imagination, to grow, run with ideas, and learn the process of building something new in an unobstructed environment.

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Revolutionary Drone Solution Takes Home the Gold at Booz Allen’s Summer Games
More than 50 percent of the workforce will be comprised of Millennial talent by 2020. This generational shift, combined with the increasing demand for companies to find top STEM-based talent, has resulted in an arms race for interns. What is the secret sauce to attracting and retaining top tech-savvy Millennials?

Innovation & Technology

The Next Generation Rucksack: Booz Allen Interns Develop Autonomous Vehicle to Ease Soldiers’ Load

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From Protecting Critical Infrastructure to Streamlining IT Systems: How Booz Allen Interns Apply Machine Learning to Solve Tough Problems
The steam engine. The airplane. The microprocessor. Now, machine intelligence—machines’ ability to perceive, interpret, and take action based on data—represents the next transformative technology for society. We’re already seeing its awe-inspiring effects: from trucks that drive themselves, to computer programs that develop drug therapies, to software that writes news articles and composes music.

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Booz Allen Interns Use Crowdsourcing and Smart Phones to Save Lives During Natural Disasters
Natural disasters cost billions in infrastructure repairs and claim tens of thousands of lives each year. In 2016, there were 91 weather, climate or geological disasters in the U.S.—including severe storms, hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, heat waves and droughts. Globally, there were 750 disasters in 2016, the highest number in four years.

Innovation & Technology

Internet of (Un)Trustworthy Things – Booz Allen Interns Advance IoT Security
In the third installment in a series about the Booz Allen Hamilton Summer Games internship program, read how interns are tackling the toughest security problems posed by the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Booz Allen Interns Wage War on Fake News
This year, Summer Games interns are building a system that allows any reader to quickly identify a potential fake news story. Summer Games Intern Team Lead Joseph C. Montminy said, “Fake news stories can have very real and dangerous consequences. The ability to quickly debunk these stories before they proliferate, and are accepted as fact, would be enormously beneficial to society as a whole.”

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Booz Allen Interns Take Assistive Technology One Step Further in This Year’s Summer Games
For decades, the blind and visually impaired have navigated streets and sidewalks with the assistance of a guide cane. Last summer, a team of Booz Allen Hamilton interns decided it was time to innovate beyond this low-tech device. Teaming with the National Federation of the Blind, the Summer Games interns developed potentially groundbreaking technology that allows people who are visually impaired to “see” the world through non-visual interfaces called Iris.

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Booz Allen’s Creative Minds Strike Gold with Next Gen Solutions to Global Challenges
It’s easy to surrender to mindless activities during the summer: lying on the beach, binging on Netflix. Booz Allen Summer Games interns, however, chose to take on challenges that will change the world.

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