Announcing Break Through Tech DC at UMD’s 2025 Sprinternship Host Organizations

Break Through Tech’s Sprinternship™ program is designed to help undergraduate women from diverse racial and socioeconomic backgrounds break into careers in tech. This year, Break Through Tech DC is collaborating with 13 organizations to host micro-internships for 64 University of Maryland undergraduate students.

This January, these Sprinterns will spend three weeks tackling real business challenges while immersed in their host companies’ culture. Employers are gaining access to emerging tech talent and participating in advancing our mission. Meanwhile, student participants build on both their technical knowledge and networking skills to become more competitive applicants for jobs and internships.

“We are so excited to have these 13 host organizations for our fourth cohort of Sprinternship,” said Caitlin Rudy, co-site lead for Break Through Tech DC and program manager for industry partnerships in the Iribe Initiative for Inclusion and Diversity in Computing. “By hosting our students, they are making a clear commitment to building a more inclusive tech ecosystem. The depth and breadth of projects are so impressive year after year, and I am already looking forward to Sprinterns’ final presentations at the end of January.”

Seven of this year’s Sprinternship hosts (with asterisks below) are returning after participating in previous years of the program.

• Easy Dynamics* – Sprinterns will focus on architecture documents in the Education unit, leveraging GitHub for version control. 
• EcoMap Technologies – Sprinterns will work on a cybersecurity project using CSS, Java, Python, REACT, and EcoMap’s version control system.
• Exiger* – Sprinterns will help Exiger’s Product team deliver on strategic objectives through market research, product management and software engineering tasks. 
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration – Sprinterns will mine the FDA’s internal repository to identify materials with a proven history of safe use. The project outcome will offer a technical rationale that the industry can use in submissions. 
• Goodshuffle* 
• KPMG* – Sprinterns will develop a data-driven solution (descriptive visualizations, dashboard) that empowers the customer success team of a digital product company to enhance client engagement and retention for their subscription-based product(s). Sprinterns will conduct data analysis to understand client behavior and engagement trends, and prototype or develop a dashboard that uses the subscription data to optimize engagement and retention for the product(s).
• Mastercard* – Sprinterns will work on the Simulator tool, which verifies the reliability of analytic methodologies and control strategies for analyzing specific client data. The software compares store financial performance to match test stores to similar control stores. The goal of this project is to allow users to select fixed dates to define the timeframe of comparison, enabling greater flexibility for users.
• Mindgrub Technologies – Sprinterns will explore transformative AI applications across multiple industries, complete two certification courses in AI design, and collaborate with Mindgrub’s expert team to develop an innovative AI assistant.
• MTech Ventures – Sprinterns will develop a dashboard that captures and automates the important aspects of the young companies in the Mtech Ventures Portfolio in an automated way. The live dashboard will be connected to live data sources producing a report that is relevant, useful and validated by stakeholders.
• Oracle – Sprinterns will help design and develop a customer-facing marketplace/plugin store for Simphony. Customers will be able to use this marketplace to view, review, select and install plugins that are available.
• Skyward IT Solutions*
• Tenable 
• University of Maryland Libraries* – Sprinterns will work with the in-house scrum team at UMD Libraries to design and build a replacement IP Manager web application using Python and Django.

Find more information about Break Through Tech DC’s 2025 Sprinternship cohort.

Interested in learning more about how your organization can join our mission to achieve gender equality in tech? Check out our Sprinternship Overview.