After completing her bachelor's degree in IT Systems Engineering, Ann Katrin worked on the World Health Organization's OpenWHO project. Following her passion for good teaching and education, she then developed an online course on object-oriented programming for SAP. In the summer of 2018, she interned at Google as a Product Manager on Google Calendar and Google Task and was able to apply her experience in user-centered design, software engineering, and business. Since August 2019, she has been working as a Product Manager at Google Zurich in the Google Assistant team.
“It’s not the mountains we conquer, but ourselves” – Sir Edmund Hillary
I can highly recommend the MINT-EC and HPI offers to students, as well as the Bundeswettbewerb für Informatik. These events gave me a lot of fun and joy during my school years and encouraged me in my computer science studies.
For female students, I would like to recommend the Grace Hopper Conference , which had a great impact on me.
I can only recommend it to everyone to apply for a scholarship.
I am very grateful to the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation), as it supported and helped me during my studies.
In addition, I would like to recommend one thing above all: Get involved in volunteer work! My volunteer work has by far shaped and advanced me the most and made me the person I am today. It's also fun, and you get to know incredibly nice and inspiring people.
I don't have a role model, but find certain characteristics of people very inspiring.
One example is Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim, who uses her YouTube channel maiLab to explain and bring (not only) chemistry to the masses.
Otherwise, I am inspired by my grandmother and my personal everyday heroes, among others.
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