Golden Section Technology

Golden Section Technology(GST)'s mission is togiveentrepreneursthe best chance to succeed in the techworld, to build a great software product, and toscale a company.

Wecherish young innovatorsand believe inthe potential ofyoung college students, especiallyif they are exposed to the best technologies and processes at the early stage of their career.Therefore, wewant toguideinnovative young adults while they are still in college.In 2020, we decidedto startour first internship program, the Future Tech Leaders Internship Program (FTL), which we will continuein 2021 and beyond.

Summer internships are agreat firststep ina young adult's journey as they prepare for the real world.Westrive to provide a fertile ground forfuture generations of software innovators, tech entrepreneurs and tech leaders.The goalofthisFTL internship programisto give them theenvironments,experienceandchallengesneeded to start a path towards a successfulcareer within thegrowingtech industry.

GST is a tech company, but also a great campus

"GST is atechcompany, but also a great campus for Future Tech Leaders.Through our FTL program, we want to raise up future generation tech leaders,set the stage for them to besuccessful in their futureprofessionalcareers.Informationtransformationis acceleratedin every industry,regardless which industryastudent chooses,andour FTL program will be the first step for the thousand miles journeyforthoseyoungentrepreneursandprofessionals"said Isaac Shi,Co-Founderand Presidentat Golden Section Technology.

Despite COVID-19and the new remote working place, we"virtually"welcomed a select group of students fromYale, University of Texas, and RiceUniversity. Together they broughttheir unique experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds toGST. Our "Future Tech Leadership"approachforour interns revolved arounddifferentways thatwecould prepare them forfutureleadership roleslike CIO,CEOand tech company founders.And we succeeded! Our former interns have already gained a greater understanding on certain software practices.

We designed our program to teacha fewmaincategories:

• Introducesoftware development concepts, latest technologies
• Applicationcreationprocesses, projectexperience
• Investment Technical Due Diligence analysis
• Best practices in managing a tech company and scaling a tech company

Business communication and virtual meetings

Exposure to the real world can be the greatest classroom.Our internship program givesthem a taste of theday-to-daylife within a company environment.By having them shadow a team member,theywerein the center of the action, able to seehow tech projects are being executedinreal-time.

Virtual meetings are the new normal oftoday's world. Our interns were able to get a vast amount of experience in this new meeting environment, where they learned how to:

• Interact with GST's global staffvia Zoom or Microsoft Teams
• Sit in on business meeting with clients, and communicate professionally and meaningfully
• Support project leaders to deliverreleases,reportsandresultsto the clients

What our interns say

LarsFyhr(FTL 2020), our intern from University of Texas, said--

"My time here in GST has been nothing short of exceptional. While working as an intern for GST, I have been fortunate enough to build upon my prior knowledge tenfold, which served as an utterly amazing experience, even in an online remote format due to the ongoing pandemic. Some of the most valuable experience came from the meetings that I sat in on and often contributed to, whether they were client pitches or individual meetings with clients to provide support. I am grateful to know that the experience and knowledge that I have acquired working at GST will help tremendously in kickstarting my career in technology."

Max Yuan(FTL 2020), our intern from Yale University, said --

"This FTL Internship program with GST has been an incredibly fulfilling experience that has exposed me to every phase of the software development process. The sheer breadth of opportunities that are available at GST is what makes the program so unique. I've been directly involved in the planning, development, deployment, and maintenance of professional software for our clients, a level of engagement I highly doubt that you could reach interning for a Big Tech company.

Furthermore, this experience isn't company-specific-you can directly apply everything you learn during this internship to any other technical project. Sprint planning in Asana, resource management in AWS, development with React, and performance monitoring in New Relic are all examples of skills that will benefit me immensely in becoming a future tech leader."