The LAGRANT Foundation (TLF) alumna Madeline Song, who recently completed a summer internship at HP, was awarded the Sustainable Impact Award, as part of the organization's InternStellar Awards.
The Sustainable Impact Award is designed to recognize the project that best considers one of the most defining and urgent issues of our time: Climate Action, Human Rights, or Digital Equity. The winner of this award is able to detail how their work embodies one or all of these core pillars. The winning project is designed to benefit the communities HP serves, its employees, or its customers, and will encompass the sustainable impact strategy.
Madeline's winning project was a sustainable events initiative aimed at helping HP events become as carbon-neutral as possible. She was also given the opportunity to present her project to a 200-person audience of interns and managers.
The InternStellar Awards are HP's U.S. wide competition where interns can submit their project to one of five categories. Each category emphasizes a different aspect of HP's business allowing for interns in all business units an opportunity to submit to a category that fits their project. Interns can choose to submit their project to one of the following categories: Business Impact Award, Customer Impact Award, Technical Impact Award, Sustainable Impact Award, The HP Way Award.
As a Corporate Experiences intern under the Corporate Affairs business unit, Madeline was responsible for conducting research on the current landscape of events emissions and existing carbon calculators. She also developed a communication plan for the launch of the sustainable events program.
Madeline is a current student at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she is pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Communications. She received an undergraduate scholarship from TLF in 2020.