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A University of Mary senior student in electrical engineering is credited with helping improve and streamline the state’s COVID-19 data collection efforts.
Josh Reiner of Bismarck had applied for internships at MDU and Basin Electric – but because of COVID, the internships were cancelled. So he applied for a job with the Department of Health. I honestly didn t think I was worthy, or had what it took to meet their requirements, Reiner said.
But within a couple of days, he was hired to do data entry. And he started at Fraine Barracks, in a basement room, with ten other people. They were all entering COVID data into spreadsheets.