Shift Solutions is a software development company that primarily focuses
on meteorological software for the Air Force and DOD.
The student project that we proposed was building out some services
for small to medium sized businesses where they could take the weather
and distill it down into business decisions.
So taking temperatures, wind speeds and things like that
and predicting based off of what you would see in the five day forecast to come.
We were really hoping to get a good synergy between
giving an opportunity for some of the students
to get some real hands on real world experience
as well as getting our name out there as a business for people to, you know,
look for interesting opportunities when they graduate and move on.
I think we were really fortunate. We got a great team.
I mean, I'm sure all of the programs feel that way as well because UNL
does a great job preparing our students for the projects.
But we kind of presented an overarching theme and kind of
ideas of what we wanted the outcomes to be and allow the students
to come up with creative ideas of how to solve those problems.
It was very obvious after the first couple of months of of working with the team
that they understood our problem set and they were bringing forth great ideas
on how to solve the problem and even suggested some things
that we hadn't thought of originally to put in the final application.
I really like just the interaction with the students and the mentoring
and kind of teaching them
how to do it and seeing it click for them as they start to build out the solutions.
And I think it really gives them something
they can be proud of and they can really see, you know,
the impact of what they're putting together.
We got a great return on investment for the software that we received
and also we had a student that transitioned to a full time employee.
So definitely a win win.