• Organization: Empowerment Through Integration – ETI’s main motto is ‘Inclusion for All is a Value for All’.
• Role: Website Intern
• Year: May 2018 – Present 
• Key Responsibilities:
  • Redesign the website to modernize it and make it more visually appealing
    • Prepare mock-ups and infographics for the redesign 
    • Add new pages and change the layout of the website
    • Replace old pictures with those that have a better quality 
    • Add more pictures and galleries along with alt text
    • Add and update ETI team members’ Linked In accounts
  • Enhance, administer and maintain the website and keep it up-to-date with all ETI’s major programs and ongoing activities
    • Add appropriate banners when needed
    • Sharing and implementing new ideas for getting donations
    • Add new job searches for ETI
    • Maintaining content on all pages
  • Add and maintain website accessibility
  • Attend weekly team meetings with key ETI team members to share the progress of website updates and work on updating the website together
• What I learned:
  • All aspects of a good website for non-profit organizations
  • Convey my idea clearly to site visitors while also make it aesthetically appealing
  • How to make a website accessible and WCAG compliant
  • Team collaboration – we have a zoom meeting for 2-3 hours each week where discuss and implement new changes and solve problems together.
• Total Hours spent: More than 200 hours 

WeCanTest is a non-profit organization that creates various programs for automation testing. I worked with three other people to write Java tests for the Everbridge mobile app. We met in person once a week to learn about how test cases were written and plan our tasks for next week. We would also do an online video meeting each week to discuss our progress and help each other solve problems. I spent about 60 hours on this volunteering activity.

I volunteered for 31 hours at the Melanoma Education Foundation, which is a non-profit organization whose goal is to help people from Melanoma skin cancer. For this, I was given a list of health and gym teachers from various schools each week. For each staff member, I needed to go to the school’s website and confirm if he/she is still working at the school.

Here is one of the list that I filled out: