Nimmi (Nirmala) Arunachalam serves as the Program Director of the SprinternshipTM Program and the Co-Director of the UKG Academy for Computer Science and Education at the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences. Since establishing the SprinternshipTM program in 2022 through industry partnerships, she has placed over 300 students in micro-internships with more than 20 employers, with many placements leading to full-time positions. She is also a doctoral student in Computer Science Education at FIU, where her research examines boundary crossing between academia and industry through computing internships. As an adjunct instructor, she has taught FIU undergraduates how to teach computational thinking to K-12 students, and has designed and facilitated workshops on computational thinking, Introduction to AI and data science for university students, K-12 students, and teachers across South Florida. Before joining FIU, she spent over a decade teaching computer science and engineering in Palm Beach County.