Summer of Impact: Fellows Award
The Summer of Impact: Fellows Award is awarded to select students who will spend the summer contributing to a Summer of Impact: Venture. Fellows will have an opportunity to work side by side with student founders of social enterprises, potentially playing multiple roles as part of a small team, and gaining insight into the behind-the-scenes processes at an early-stage company.
Applications have closed.
Applications have closed.
Shelflife
Shelflife is an AI-powered automated markdowns system to reduce grocer food waste.
Fellow Projects:
Pilot Implementation
Algorithm and Simulation Development
Founder: Samhita Karnati (WG'25)
Fellow Projects:
Pilot Implementation
Algorithm and Simulation Development
Founder: Samhita Karnati (WG'25)
Shelflife Fellow Information
Skills Requested of Pilot Implementation Fellow
For the Fellow focused on GTM, the ideal Fellow is a self-starter who has experience with relationship building and launching zero-to-one initiatives. The Fellow should have interest in project management and have excellent communication skills (both with teammates and with potential customers).
Skills Requested of Technical Development Fellow
For the Fellow who would build the algorithm and simulation, Shelflife is looking for someone who has an engineering and data science background. Specific technical skills include 1) Python (ideally via Jupyter notebooks), 2) cleaning and manipulating large datasets, 3) the scikit-learn Python machine learning library, and 4) Github.
Structure
Fellows will join the team for weekly 1:1 meetings and at least a once-per-week pairing session to problem solve. A combination of in-person & virtual work sessions will occur throughout the summer.