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‎_includes/blog-post-card.html‎

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Google <strong>Summer of Code</strong>
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‎_posts/2026-02-27-high-school-internship-mg-plovdiv.md‎

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title: "High School Internship Program 2026"
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Announcing a hands-on internship with the High School of Mathematics
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"Akademik Kiril Popov" in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, designed to move 10th-grade students
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from curiosity to real upstream contributions in compiler and systems
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engineering through structured mentorship and open-source collaboration.
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author: Vassil Vassilev
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permalink: blogs/high_school_internships_2026/
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thumbnail_image: /images/mg-pld-logo.png
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date: 2026-02-27
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tags: [internship, high-school, mentorship, compiler-engineering,
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systems-programming, open-source, community]
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I'm excited to announce a new internship program we're running with the High
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School of Mathematics "Akademik Kiril Popov" in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. After the Compiler
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Research Group's deep technical work in 2024 — advances in Clad and CppInterOp,
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tighter integration with ROOT and CUDA, and the growth of a genuinely global
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open-source community — it felt natural to open the door wider and invite
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motivated high-school students to join us.
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This program is for 10th-grade students who want an honest, hands-on
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introduction to low-level compiler and systems engineering. Our goal is simple
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and direct: move students from curiosity to contribution. We'll give them the
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tools, structure, and mentorship they need to make real, upstreamed changes in
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open-source projects.
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What students will learn:
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* Practical version control and collaboration: Git, GitHub workflows, code
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review etiquette, and Software Carpentry best practices.
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* Technical communication: writing concise technical proposals and documenting
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work so others can build on it.
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* Systems and compiler work: WebAssembly and xeus-cpp tutorial development,
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understanding compilation pipelines, and small tooling projects.
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* Accelerated GPU exposure: foundations of CUDA and how to reason about
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performance and correctness on GPUs.
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* Open-source contribution: preparing patches, working with maintainers, and
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upstreaming changes to projects like CppInterOp.
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* Project work: building agent-based simulations in Python, pairing with
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mentors, and delivering a short public tutorial or demo.
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Students often learn concepts in school but rarely see how those concepts
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translate into engineered systems or community impact. That gap is what we want
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to close. From my perspective, the most valuable outcomes are not just polished
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code or a CV line — they are the habits: clear writing, iterative design,
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collaboration across timezones, and the discipline to follow an idea through to
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a merged contribution.
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Our group knows that small, well-mentored tasks lead to early wins: interns gain
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confidence, maintainers gain useful patches, and the whole project benefits.
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This program formalizes that pattern and creates a repeatable path for new
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contributors.
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With enough motivation and perserverance they will make their first impactful
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open source contributions very soon!

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