The GitHub Internship Program, celebrating its fourth year in summer 2019, brought in students like Philip Dumaresq from Concordia University, who interned with the Learning Engineering team. During his internship, Philip developed the first iteration of a Learning Lab API to extend the use of GitHub's Learning Lab beyond the platform, allowing course authors to integrate courses into other websites and enhance their educational content. He explored API architecture and design, built components like an error handler and authentication page, and gained insights into application security and documentation. Philip learned valuable lessons about teamwork, stakeholder engagement, and the importance of understanding the problem deeply rather than focusing solely on solutions. This experience also highlighted the benefits of incremental development in streamlining the API creation process.