{"id":615,"date":"2011-08-15T12:43:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T07:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internshala.com\/blog\/?p=615"},"modified":"2011-08-15T12:43:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T07:13:08","slug":"summer-internship-story-weekly-winner-announcement-150811","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internshala.com\/blog\/summer-internship-story-weekly-winner-announcement-150811\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3 winning entry announcement \u2013 Mahak Singhal (IIT Madras)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Internshala welcomes a new entrant to the \u201cWinner of the week\u201d Hall of Fame! Mahak from IIT Madras shares tips on how he landed a much coveted internship at MIT and his experience\u00a0 of working with Nobel Laureates and exchanging ideas with them. As intellectually stimulating as it can get, this story is sure to inspire thousand others looking for serious academic research as a career. With this spirited narration &amp; maximum number of \u201clikes\u201d that the post received, he now graduates to \u201cWinner of the week\u201d Hall of Fame on Internshala and wins flipkart gift voucher for Rs. 1,000\/-.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Congrats, Mahak! Next step \u2013 \u201cWinner of the month\u201d!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Daily Winner for: &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>10<sup>th<\/sup> August 2011<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Week winner for: &#8211;<\/strong> 5th \u2013 11th August 2011<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Name of the intern: &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Mahak Singhal<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Institute: &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>IIT Madras<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Organization interned with: &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research, MIT, MA, USA<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Next time this could be your story up here.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/internshala.com\/blog\/summer-internship-story\/\"><strong>Participate now<\/strong><\/a> in India\u2019s BIGGEST internship story contest and let the world know how was this summer for you? <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/internshala.com\/blog\/summer-internship-story\/\">Click here<\/a><\/strong> to start telling your story or <strong><a href=\"..\/summer-internship-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong> to read more winning entries so far!<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Finternshala.com%2Fblog%2Fsummer-internship-story-weekly-winner-announcement-150811%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Share&nbsp;on&nbsp;Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Get&nbsp;Your&nbsp;Dream&nbsp;Internship<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.42-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internshala welcomes a new entrant to the \u201cWinner of the week\u201d Hall of Fame! 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