14 DAY TRIAL // Intel has a Corporate Internship Program that is usually meant for talented college students, but this year, it will be extended to a sixteen-year-old that still doesn't have his own driver's license.
Why? Apparently, because Joey Hudy is a math and engineering genius. Despite still being in high school, he has been creating Arduino-based gadgets and selling them online.
He also made a solar-powered computer once, for a science competition, and at the White House Science Fair in 2013, he demonstrated a marshmallow cannon for president Obama, though one might say that was one of his more modest feats.
He probably didn't expect to be hired on the spot, though, when he met Intel CEO Brian Krzanich (BK) at the Rome Maker Faire last October.
But he did get hired, and last week he attended the New Employee Orientation (NEO) at Intel in Arizona. He was driven there by his mother and left very excited about what he could build once he started.
Speaking of which, he will start once school is out (it's a summer internship after all) and go back to school in autumn.
“We hope to forge a lasting relationship with Joey, and all our interns, as we support their professional development,” says Vaadra, U.S. intern program manager in HR.
Joey will work in the New Devices Group’s Product Development organization. He will probably start out with what he's used to: Arduino boards (which go quite well with the Quark processor Intel released not long ago).
Maybe he'll then come up with designs for the Intel Edison miniature PC. We can't really know until summer begins.
It might sound hard to believe that a young teenager could make much of a difference in the long run, until one realizes that pretty much every famous tech wiz and company founder of today must have started out similarly, inventing cool stuff in their bedrooms or their mom's basement.