STEM

We are excited to kick off yet another summer for the UNH-IOL HighTech Bound Internship program, a program designed for rising high school seniors interested in pursuing a future in technology. This coming summer marks our 17th year of the internship reaching over 130+ students from across the country.

We welcome 10 passionate students to UNH this July who are coming from New Hampshire all the way from North Carolina. Projects will involve hands-on software development, FPGA board design,...

My name is Zachary Simone, and I am currently a junior at UNH majoring in computer science. I have worked at the UNH Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL) for almost two years, as I started in December of 2020. Prior to this, I had the honor of being a part of the IOL HighTech Bound internship during the summer of my high school junior year in(2019). At the time, I was attending the Seacoast School of Technology for a more in depth...

Last month the UNH-InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) and the Peter T. Paul Entrepreneurship Center (ECenter) collaborated to host the annual Hack New Hampshire event. Undergraduate and graduate students across all colleges were invited to participate in a two-day event to create a solution to “Help New Hampshire.” Last year’s event was held entirely virtual, this year students were invited to participate in-person at the IOL among industry mentors and peers.

This year, a total of...

COVID-19, and the series of lockdowns that followed, has brought a wide array of challenges to students, workers, and employers alike. Thanks to the efforts of teachers and school administrators around the world, institutional education was able to continue through remote learning-- a solution that, as necessary as it may have been given the circumstances, was not without its flaws. Despite the best efforts of everyone involved, many students were left feeling like more of their education was left up...