Internships drive innovation

Created a solution for Feiring

Appfarm has seen great results from previous interns in the past year. Students have created amazing projects for Appfarm customers and partners. Among them is Feiring, who needed a solution to track, measure, manage and analyze their rock crushing operations.

Feiring builds its solutions with cloud-based technology and is generally interested in finding ways to do more with less use of traditional coding.

“We had the pleasure of having three summer students from Appfarm join us over the summer in 2021. They were tasked with creating a solution for report production, sampling, and our laboratory,” Kenneth Anders Hansen, CTO at Feiring says.

“For us, this became an actual Proof of Concept on Appfarm as a development platform, while also giving us the opportunity to create useful and necessary solutions along the way. Today, the solutions created by the summer students form the basis of our new generation of field applications, that we are now continuously building directly on top of to add functionality,” Hansen says.

“We see great value in the work that was put in by the summer students. We are impressed with how much they managed to achieve in a limited time and the quality of the solutions they developed."

“I would highly recommend running a project with summer interns to anyone considering this. This creates great experiences for the students, while also giving you the opportunity to solve specific challenges or needs your organization is facing,” Kenneth Hansen finishes.

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Head of Solutions at Appfarm,Øystein Bjering, believes students are a great resource for Appfarm and its customers. At the same time, allowing the students to work on real projects and produce real-life applications, gives them valuable and relevant work experience they can bring with them through their studies.

“It’s fun to see how fast the students are picking up No-Code. They are quick and eager to learn, which makes for amazing results for our customers. It's definitely valuable to involve them in real projects – it's a win-win-win,” Bjering says.