{"id":31493,"date":"2024-12-06T08:15:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T16:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/?p=31493"},"modified":"2025-10-21T16:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:03:29","slug":"how-to-get-the-most-out-of-the-graduate-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/2024\/12\/06\/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-the-graduate-experience","title":{"rendered":"Getting the most out of the graduate experience\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">When Breanna Powell began thinking about graduate school, she knew she wanted to get more out of the experience than she had in her undergraduate years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t make the most of my time in my bachelor\u2019s program, and there were a lot of opportunities I could have taken advantage of but didn\u2019t,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After graduating from Central Washington University with a bachelor\u2019s degree in English Language and Literature, Powell worked as a paraeducator for the Tahoma School District in Maple Valley, Washington. More than a decade later, she began to think about getting her master\u2019s degree, but this time she would avail herself of all that college has to offer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I decided I was going to back to school, I said, \u2018I\u2019m going to do it right. I\u2019m going to get involved in extracurriculars and find a good club to put my time into and make as many friends as I can \u2014 and just make a difference,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now in her final year as a graduate student in Computer Science &amp; Software Engineering at the University of Washington Bothell, Powell has lived up to her promise. From club and conference activities to a study abroad experience in Germany and an internship at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Powell\u2019s graduate school experience has been one for the books.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>&#8220;When I decided I was going to back to school, I said, \u2018I\u2019m going to do it right. I\u2019m going to get involved in extracurriculars and find a good club to put my time into and make as many friends as I can \u2014 and just make a difference.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Breanna Powell, graduate student, CSSE<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Flourishing through extracurriculars<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While working as a paraeducator and as a freelance designer for book projects, Powell developed an interest in working with technology. She coached a middle school robotics team as well as a green team devoted to environmental education. Seeing the kids she worked with grow and improve their understanding of technology inspired her to do the same.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was so impressed with these young people that I felt like, you know what, I could go back to school. I could learn more about technology and start studying sustainable technology,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aa a graduate student at UW Bothell, she discovered the Association for Computing Machinery.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDoing something extracurricular like what my students were doing, really putting their heart into something, I saw how transformative and rewarding that can be,\u201d Powell said. \u201cSo that inspired me to go into the ACM, and I really flourished in that club. I\u2019ve enjoyed every moment of it.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Powell was a marketing officer in her first year and later became the vice president. Throughout the three years she has served the club in some capacity, she has always shown a dedication to going the extra mile, said Dr. Arkady Retik, associate teaching professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/stem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">School of STEM<\/a> and ACM adviser.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s an ace,\u201d he said. \u201cVery energetic, a good communicator and a leader. She made others want to join and engage. She was always promoting the club and asking what more she can do, always wanting to make our events \u2014 such as the annual Hackathon \u2014 bigger and attract more people.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the latest hackathon event, he added, Powell was instrumental in forming a coalition with other clubs to draw a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/2024\/05\/24\/success-a-product-of-growth-and-collaboration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">record-breaking turnout<\/a>. \u201cI think she knows things don\u2019t happen for themselves, you have to put in the work,\u201d he said. \u201cShe\u2019s always looking to do more, not less, and for that I think she will be very successful.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;69df07ed4cacc&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" 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Inslee met with several students, and Retik had recommended Powell be one of them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meeting, Powell represented the ACM club as well as the Alliance for Sustainability. Wanting to apply sustainability to the computer sciences, in 2023 she approached A4S club president Faith Lambert, a senior majoring in biology, and then became the club vice president.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring her time with us and calling on her experiences with ACM,\u201d Lambert said, \u201cshe has presented wonderful ideas on how to grow the club and how to make our structure sustainable enough to last after our senior officers graduate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBreanna is always active in event planning and execution, attending as many events as her schedule allows,\u201d he added. \u201cI have a lot of trust in the A4S team \u2014 and I especially trust Breanna to make sure this club succeeds.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another highlight of her graduate experience, Powell said, was the opportunity to travel to Germany, where she spent 10 weeks in the summer of 2023 working alongside four other students to kick off a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/13\/researching-security-and-privacy-for-smart-cities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three-year research project<\/a> in Bamberg that was part of a \u201csmart cities\u201d initiative. 足彩app哪个是正规的 research involved collecting data and then examining the complex interactions between people and their city\u2019s services. A year later, she presented on the project at a conference in France.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And most recently, Powell said, her internship at the Los Alamos National Laboratory was a major high point to round out her time at UW Bothell.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;69df07ed50499&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"69df07ed50499\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-id=\"31507\" 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\/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Breanna Powell (left) at the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication in France in March 2024.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Gaining real-world experience<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Powell first learned about the Los Alamos National Laboratory while attending the Grace Hopper Women in Computing Conference in 2023. She was part of a group of students from UW Bothell who received a scholarship to attend. When she came across the lab\u2019s booth at the conference, she was drawn to its mission and work, particularly in climate science.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She later applied for some internships, and in summer 2024 embarked on a 10-week computing internship working on the lab\u2019s sea-ice computer model, CICE, with data from the Energy Exascale Earth System Model. In her role, she worked on coding for a sea-ice emulator that shows the freeboard \u2014 a proxy for sea ice thickness \u2014 across different periods of time and comparing for seasonality.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c足彩app哪个是正规的se simulations are getting more accurate over time,\u201d Powell said. \u201c足彩app哪个是正规的 whole idea behind doing this is to see how close we can approximate real life and to continue trying until we do.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI absolutely loved the project that I worked on and meeting people working in climate science. It was a great team and a great mission,\u201d she said, \u201cand we were all working toward the same goal.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the chance to work on modeling software, Powell said the internship offered great opportunities to network and learn more about career pathways to working at the lab \u2014 from tours of the archives and decommissioned supercomputers to learning about the lab\u2019s history to a symposium in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she networked with agencies and organizations that intersect with the lab.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c足彩app哪个是正规的 experience taught me that I could jump into learning just about anything as long as I have the motivation to learn it,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;69df07ed51b7f&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" 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