The Momentum Speaker Series is a TED-style student speaker series designed to help Berkeley Engineering students gain momentum in their career searches and professional lives through advice from their peers. The series is made with students in mind, and based on 3 pillars: (1) inclusion (2) information and (3) relatability.
The goal of Momentum is to crowdsource information from peers who have experience in certain fields and make that available and applicable to other students. Each event of the series brings six speakers together and focuses on a common theme that will help the Berkeley Engineering community.
Over the course of 3 years, I helped build a team of 10 Berkeley Engineering students and staff members that together hosted 8 events, 55 speakers, 400 students, and expanded the program to UC Davis and Microsoft. I led a marketing committee of 3 engineering students.
More: engineering.berkeley.edu/momentum
I remember enrolling at UC Berkeley not understanding how my peers were getting jobs at these tech companies that I had previously only heard about in the news.
Coming from a family with no engineers and being a first-generation college student in the U.S., I coffee-chatted dozens upon dozens of people, completed four years of engineering and business education at UC Berkeley, and am now working full-time at Microsoft. Along the way, I interned at Microsoft (2x), Apple (1x), and received an internship offer from Tesla.
My twin brother Andrew and I are sharing what we've learned through this online YouTube channel to inspire and prepare first generation students to break into and succeed in the tech industry.
Mission: change lives through tech. More: youtube.com/thetechtwins