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Student Advancement at RENCI (STAR) helps the next generation of thinkers bring their ideas to the table, build valuable skills, and pursue professional growth. We are excited to engage with curious, hard-working young professionals through STAR Internships (STARships).

STAR provides high school and college students the opportunity to pursue their passion while engaging in meaningful data science-related projects.

  • Data Science

  • Computer Science

  • Business

  • Earth Science

  • Project Management

  • Communications

  • Research Science

  • Cyberinfrastructure Security

Students

STAR Tales


I accepted an offer to attend The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I ended up receiving an academic achievement scholarship from UIUC. I couldn't have done it without RENCI's internship experience.

- Nalin (High School Intern)

Before my internship, I did not know/understand the effort that went into project proposals and creating a DEI team. I have thoroughly enjoyed all that I have been able to learn while interning this semester.

- Undergraduate Intern

I had a great experience as the RENCI Communications Team intern! I feel like I learned a lot in terms of public relations tasks and written materials.

- Allison (Communications Intern)

The experience at RENCI is really great. I learned how to code and manage projects professionally. My supervisor Yufeng is a knowledgeable person and all my teammates are very helpful. The weekly meeting really helped me to understand the whole project and gave me a clear view of my current work.

- Yifei (Research Assistant)

I learned more about the [Computer Science] and Data Science field, especially how [Computer Science] can be related to many other aspects of academia. Additionally, I learned that I don't have to have a technical background to be in [Computer Science] and how project management is a great way to contribute to the team.

- STAR Ventures Participant

Projects in the STARlight

Improving Registration for Data Matters

Shivani K.

STAR Intern, Spring 2024

View STAR Talk Presentation

A Portal for RENCI's Infrastructure Inventory

Abel L.

STAR Intern, Fall 2023 - Spring 2024

Strategizing ACIS IT Service Delivery

Kenzie N.

STAR Intern, Spring 2024 - Fall 2024

Organizing RENCI's Google Drives

Nathan K.

STAR Intern, Summer 2024 - Fall 2024

Measuring and Analyzing Air Quality

Aadil, Aakesh, Dikshita, Olivia

STAR Ventures Participants, Summer 2024

Programmatically Building & Storing Docker Images in the Google Artifact Registry

Jude S.

STAR Intern, Summer 2023 - Summer 2024

Analyzing Rare Pulmonary Disease Data with ICEES

Brenna H.

STAR Intern, Summer 2023 - Fall 2024

Student Achievement at RENCI

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Chapel Hill, NC 27517

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