These Delaware State University students will be interning at Apple this summer

Two Delaware State University students will head to California this summer to complete internships with Apple.
Curtis Hite and Tuba Abbasi, both juniors and computer science majors, landed this opportunity through a partnership with the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Foundation. Along with the internship, the foundation, which has granted more than $250 million in scholarships and distributes 98 percent of its grants to historically black universities, is also paying for the students’ relocation fees and awarding them with a one-year scholarship.
Working at the technology giant has always been a dream for Abbasi, who has been focusing on her app development skills. Along with fellow students Deshaun Crawford and Janelle Boyd, she published an STEM-themed app on the App Store.
“Because I want to work at Apple, I wanted to get my hands on anything that could give me a better chance if I would get an opportunity to work for them,” the Smyrna resident said in a statement on the school’s website. “When I started doing app development, I really began enjoying it and decided that I want to do mobile development in android and IOS.”
During her time at Apple, she will work on the company’s Swift team, which works on the specific computer language used at Apple.
Hite, a native of Philadelphia, hopes to learn more about the software testing process while at Apple. He will be working along with the software quality assurance team of the Watch Community.
Abbasi and Hite are not the first Delaware State University students to spend a summer at Apple. In 2016, Crawford worked as a summer intern on the company’s product testing time. Crawford performed so well during his internship, that the company offered him a full-time position. Following his graduation this spring, he will head to Santa Clara, Calif., and where he will start his career as a software engineer.