In Q1, Current welcomed four new interns from three of our partner institutions. Allison Marquis (Marketing and Communications Intern) and Tess Teodoro (Engineering Intern), both joined the team via the Jeff Metcalf Internship Program at the University of Chicago; Dillon Grant (Engineering Intern) joined Current from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and Haiying Cui (Engineering Intern) joined Current from Purdue University. Current is growing, and our intern contributions are instrumental to our progress and impact. We hope you’ll get to meet them soon, but in the meantime, check out a few fun facts about these multidimensional future water leaders:
- Haiying Cui
- …50% of the population in her hometown could speak both Chinese and Korean…
- …played piano since age 6, and picked up guitar during her undergraduate days…
- …once spent 2 weeks in the Scottish Highlands with sheep, rain and heavy wind…
- …was attacked by a duck in 6th grade and has been terrified of them ever since (they are basically velociraptors).
- Dillon Grant…
- …went skydiving last summer and it was terrifying…
- …is the youngest of 4 kids…
- …has never broken any bones or had a serious injury (knock on wood)…
- …starred in a commercial when he was a kid.
- Allison Marquis…
- …can play 5 different instruments (piano, clarinet, flute, violin, and tenor sax)…
- ….lived in Australia for a year…
- …has been stung by jellyfish on 3 different occasions…
- ….tutors and helps run after school art/music programs for elementary students in Hyde Park.
- Tess Teodoro…
- …is a trained Class D Water Treatment Plant Operator in Texas
- …is a beekeeper tending to around 150,000 bees in the South Side of Chicago…
- …has had artwork featured on a postage stamp…
- …has leapt from a moving car for free frozen yogurt.
With three intern cohorts each year and an expanding list of projects to support, we are always looking for new intern partnerships. If you would like to discuss future internship placements at Current, please contact George Brigandi.
