Thankful for Thanksgiving
Imagine this… You wake up late on Thursday and school is canceled. You get out of bed and it’s chilly, so you grab a blanket and groggily walk down to the living room to...
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QUEST’s Homecoming Fun
UMD’s football games are best known for the tailgates that precede them – grilling, cornhole, and hanging out with friends while countless Maryland flags blow in the wind. One tailgate a season, in particular,...
Passion Pitch: Student Neehar Peri Conducts Research in the Center for Automation Research
QUEST means a lot of things to different people, but the majority of the QUEST community agrees that the values, skill sets, and connections gained from QUEST have been invaluable to them in their...
QUEST Alumnus Delante Desouza in HBO Pilot
After graduating with a Computer Science degree in 2016, Delante Desouza (Cohort 22) went from working as a software engineer for the university to working as a digital marketing specialist for a house flipping...
Alumni Corner: Navin Sarma (Cohort 11)
Students can be feel a lot of pressure to know exactly what they want to do in the future or what they want to pursue as their career. However, most professionals tend to switch...
A Successful 5th Annual QUEST Networking Event
On September 12th, QUEST hosted its fifth annual QUEST Corporate Networking Event! Thanks to QUEST Corporate and our Assistant Director, Jessica Roffe, over 20 companies attended the largest event to date! Because of QUEST’s...
What is Materials Engineering?
Our world has experienced nothing short of a technological revolution throughout the last century. We have refrigerators that can store and extend the shelf life of food, new modes of transportation that can carry...
Where Are They Now? QUEST Couple Reflects On Working in Netherlands
Jessica and Erick Alves de Sa of Cohort 16 met through QUEST and just returned to the DMV after living in the Netherlands for almost five years. Jess and Erick met during their sophomore...
PSL in hand, QUEST is Excited for these Fall Favorites!
Welcome to the most wonderful time of the year!! The end of summer brings changing leaves, pumpkin pies, and sweater weather; however, for many hardworking QUEST students, this also means midterms, team projects, and...
Student Spotlight: Jeannie Spiegel IGNITEs Future Female Leaders
This month, I had the pleasure of speaking with Jeannie Spiegel, a sophomore marketing and supply chain management major in Cohort 33. Jeannie is currently the treasurer for the Maryland Chapter of IGNITE, a...