Engage Engineering Scholarship Essay

I heard about the Engage Engineering program through a connection at my current institution, Bowdoin College. He informed me that there was a Pinterest recruiter, whom also was a Bowdoin graduate, interested in applicants with my skill set for a perspective summer internship. I looked into more details about the program and became excited about the opportunity of working for an organization that values diversity in the computer science field.

I am currently in the process of declaring a major and minor. I have decided that I will be declaring a Computer Science major in conjunction with a Philosophy minor. Coming into college my intention was to become a computer science graduate, because I have a passion for technology and enjoy challenging myself in terms of computational problem solving. I, however, never envisioned myself as a philosophy minor, but
I have been fortunate enough to see and experience many things in my life, and I value those involvements. So in the event that I become a member of the Pinterest workforce, I plan on utilizing my diverse thoughts to provide a fresh outlook on solving every problem that crosses my path.

I have not specifically worked on a “coding project” in a group setting, but I have worked with a group to solve a coding task. During my research experience at Washington University in St. Louis, I worked with two other undergraduates to improve the efficiency of the machine learning algorithm built into the educational software Looking Glass. As a team we worked to improve the efficiency of their Python based code, and ultimately increased the percent efficiency of their machine learning output from 67% to