DLINQ Internships: Professional Learning Opportunities for Middlebury Students

About the Internship Program

DLINQ’s student internship program is designed to provide opportunities for Middlebury students to work on meaningful and impactful digital projects. DLINQ Interns work with DLINQ staff mentors and are offered continuous learning opportunities. The program is aligned with Middlebury’s strategic direction focused on developing students’ digital fluency and critical engagement with the digital.

DLINQ Interns divide their time into three areas of work:

Inquiries – Participating in individual and group inquiries on topics of digital fluency, and supporting or co-leading one-on-one or small group learning sessions on topics relevant to DLINQ’s areas of focus.
Digital Fluency Teaching Assistance – Facilitating peer-to-peer consultations with other students, faculty, and staff, and partnering with faculty and staff to develop digital fluency activities for courses.
DLINQ project work – Contributing to the development, progress, and success of DLINQ sponsored as well as community partner projects and initiatives.

DLINQ Interns

Xiaofan Chen

DLINQ Intern, Institute

XIAOFAN CHEN

DLINQ Intern, Institute

Alivia Kliesen

DLINQ Intern, College

ALIVIA KLIESEN

DLINQ Intern, College

Masud Tyree Lewis

DLINQ Lead Intern, College

MASUD TYREE LEWIS

DLINQ Lead Intern, College

Sailee Rangole

DLINQ Intern, Institute

SAILEE RANGOLE

DLINQ Intern, Institute

Kaylen Rivers

DLINQ Intern, College

KAYLEN RIVERS

DLINQ Intern, College

Writings & Reflections

Protest Lyrics: A Guide to a Perfect Protest Song?

by Petar Gardian, DLINQ Intern

As part of my personal inquiry, I have decided to explore protest music from the 1990s onwards. The main aim of the inquiry was to find the most common idioms and words […]

How to Increase Attendance in Online Student Organization Events

by Kayla Moore, DLINQ Intern.

To answer this question, the first thing I thought to use was social media, particularly Instagram. I chose Instagram because it seems like a social media app that many students use aside from Facebook. Additionally, […]

Language in the Digital Sphere

by Vera Rousseff, DLINQ Intern

My personal inquiry, Language in the Digital Sphere, explores how language shapes our experience of the digital world. Like many other members of the Middlebury community, I operate in multiple languages on a daily […]

Inbox Zero: An Animated Short

by Alivia Kliesen, DLINQ Intern, Computer Science Major

DLINQ recently tasked the Interns with creating a visualization that represents some aspect of our relationship to the digital. In tackling this project, I first reflected on the seemingly endless stream […]

Co-creating a Pre-Immersion Website: A Collaboration Story with DLINQ and the School in Jordan

By Xiaofan Chen, Translation and Localization Management ’21, Natalie Fallert, International Education Management ’20, and Sailee Rangole, Translation and Localization Management ’21, DLINQ interns

From July to November 2020, DLINQ interns Xiaofan […]

The Digital Cyborg: Algorithmically Created Art

By Kaylen Rivers, DLINQ Intern, Computer Science and English Double Major

One project we undertook as DLINQ interns was the Digital Cyborg, an open-ended exercise where we were tasked with analyzing and describing how our relationships with the digital world become […]

Growing into Our Roles as Digital Citizens

by Sanjana Roy, DLINQ Intern, Architecture and Environmental Studies Joint Major with a Minor in Biology

My experience of creating an identity on the web started out with my first Yahoo email account at the age of 9. I was […]

Science as a Form of Storytelling

by Jiaqi Li, DLINQ Intern, Computer Science & Geology Joint Major

(This is a collaborative personal storytelling project between DLINQ Intern Cyborg project and an assignment for Writing on Contemporary Issues (fall 2020))

In computer science, an