BHOOMIKA BANJARA

Selected for the 2026 Summer Internship at Vicharanashala Lab for Education Design (VLED), IIT Ropar, focusing on MERN Stack development and collaborative project work. Phase 1 — Team Project & Learning • Worked with a 10- Intern member team on the FLN project. we discuss ideas, divide responsibilities, and worked •Took part in daily meetings, discussions, mentor sessions, and V-Talks, which exposed me to perspectives from educators, industry professionals, and experts. Sessions such as the one with Dr. M. S. Lakshmi Priya, Ministry of MSME, helped me understand how technology, innovation connect with real-world problems. •Actively supported fellow interns through the Matrix Codersight platform and received Silver of the Month recognition. Phase 2 — Open Source & Individual Contribution Transitioned from team-based work to individual open-source development, gaining experience working directly with an existing codebase and development workflow. • Contributed to Spurti, an open-source project, where I worked under the mentorship of Sakshi Ma’am. • Raised two Pull Requests, learning how to understand an existing project, identify areas for improvement, implement changes, and work through the review process. • This phase gave me a practical understanding of open-source collaboration, code reviews, GitHub workflows, and contributing to a project beyond just building something from scratch. Overall, VLED was more than a technical internship for me. It taught me how to learn with a team, communicate ideas, contribute independently, and build for a real project