Samantha Scherner: Health Equity, Week Three
I am officially half way through my internship and this week things at the Rodham Institute have started to pick up. I started off the week by going to the hospital and rounding with residents on the general medicine floor. The two doctors were presenting cases to their attending and giving him a rundown of […]
Emmanuel Ledesma: Chemistry, Week One
My name is Emmanuel Ledesma and I am one of the interns from Olathe High School. Myself and Tyler, another Pinhead Intern, are working with the Amaro Lab at the University of California, San Diego(UCSD). My journey started on Sunday, June 24, as I flew into San Diego. I got to see part of San […]
Carlos Rodriguez: Investigation and application of the Physical doping mechanisms on single layer graphene at UCSD, week one.
My name is Carlos Rodriguez. I’m from Montrose High School. My internship is at UCSD in La Jolla, San Diego California. I’m in a research program called ENLACE. I arrived San Diego on Sunday June 24th. I checked in and got my keys for of my dorm. I introduced myself to my roomies and met […]
Ty Kraft: BioChemCore at UCSD – Week One
The first week in San Diego Califonia has been both a thrilling one and a challenging one. The first week of my internship at the UCSD BioChemCore has been a boot camp of learning how to code in various different coding languages such as python and bash along with being introduced to the workings of computational […]
Ry Gould: Beginning of Rat Handling for Behavioral Research – Week 2
The second week of my internship was very interesting as I had the opportunity to do work that was quite different from the molecular work I did last week. Having completed two courses regarding humane animal experimentation and animal handling, I was able to touch and move rats used in TSRI addiction research. For the […]
Cooper Rondinelli: Programming and Data Science, LASP, Week One
I am doing my Pinhead Internship at the University of Colorado, Boulder, at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. This week, my main task was getting started on a Python program that would take data from the satellites and make it available to read in real time. On the first day, my mentor, Bennet Schwab, […]
Lexie Gardner: Environmental Engineering Week Two
And just like that, week two is over! This week was a little more mellow than last week, but by no means less exciting. On Monday, I worked with an anemometer and got it reading correctly for a future experiment that will be happening on the Student Union roof. After that, I continued working with […]
Karsen Henwood: Marine Biology, Week 2
I had another fabulous week here at the Tybee Island Marine Science Center and I think I am finally staring to get the hang of things. A typical work day for me is helping in the husbandry, acting as a gallery interpreter, or helping with other happenings in the morning and then assisting with Sea […]
Noah Rainer: Spinal Cord Injury Research, Week Two
Hey guys! So I just got done with week two at Frazier Rehab and I love it here I can’t wait to tell you all about it! So for this past week I’ve been starting my day helping in a training session on the 9th floor of the building. This is called the SCM gym, […]
Spencer Keating: Environmental Engineering, Week Two
The second week of my internship was a blast. Our Arduino shields and Xbee communication devices were delivered. We also got 5 digital temperature sensors in. This week we have been setting up our temperature sensor network and making sure everything is functioning properly. This includes calibrating the sensors in ice water to make sure […]