Maelstrom is a 10-week design internship program at IBM. From January to March 2015, we worked with the designers in Austin, Texas. Each intern team was given the opportunity to tackle a problem from one of the design teams, and our team worked within the domain of the Cloud Marketplace. At the end of the ten weeks, we proposed our solution to the design department and a few executives at IBM, and submitted a patent for the key element of our project. Few weeks and many emails later, our patent was published. It was an intense, fun, and fulfilling learning experience.