Anza Connaughton: Spinal Rehabilitation at the Frazier Rehab Institute, Week 1
Hello! My name is Anza Connaughton and I’m a pintern from Ridgway High School in Ridgway, Colorado. My internship this summer is at the Frazier Rehab and Neuroscience Center in Louisville, Kentucky. Coming into this internship, I didn’t really have a lot of expectations. Based on what I’ve seen in Greys Anatomy, being an intern in […]
Eric Gutierrez Week 1: Aerospace Engineering
Hello! My name is Eric Gutierrez, I’m a student at Montrose High School. This summer, I have the privilege of interning at the Unmanned Systems Research Institute (USRI) at Oklahoma State University, led by Dr. Jamey Jacob. On my first day, right off the bat, I was informed of the upcoming projects that we would […]
Carter Andrew: Conservation Metrics: Week Two
Monday: When the morning came I was eager to get back to work. Whenever I take a hiatus from a project it lets me asses problems from different angles. I had a number of experiments I wanted to do in order to find the missing link: reading the 16 and 32-bit numbers in the .wav […]
Kira Galbraith Week 2: Forest Park Animal Hospital
Week two of my Pinhead internship in Panama City Florida and I already feel like I have learned so much. I have many mentors throughout the building. The head vet tech/manager, Rhonda, has been working at the practice for 28 years. She introduced me to the staff and teaches me what the vet tech responsibilities […]
Carter Andrew: Conservation Metrics: Week One
Hello everybody! My name is Carter Andrew and this summer I have the honor of attending Conservation Metrics in Santa Cruz, California. Conservation Metrics is a marine conservation company centered around data analysis, machine learning, and wildlife acoustics. At Conservation Metrics, we use machine learning with intuitive pipelines to help make predictions on past, current, […]
Ethan Barnes: Game Dev, Week 2
Hey there! So, its been another week and I’ve done lots of things here in Denver, at Illfonic and not at Illfonic. So, at Illfonic I did *deleted* and that was super fun! I also did *deleted* and *deleted* and that was cool too. Apart from the work stuff I’ve gotten to hang out with […]
Kendahl Roufa Week 3: Continuing my research on food waste and teaching myself to code Python
Hello Friends! This past week was nowhere near as exciting as last because all of my fieldwork was canceled due to bad weather. Fear not though, I still did some crazy exciting things throughout the week. I started the week ready to get my hands dirty outside on a farm, but the steady downpour prevented Mikaela […]
Georgia Pieper Week 3: HIMB Coral Study
Hello, hope everyone is doing well! This week at the HIMB, Miranda and I were able to finish all the set up and work needing to be done in order to help our experiment go underway. Rob Toonen, Miranda, Evan, and I were able to take out a research boat to Humbug reef and collect […]
Rachael Burson – Biotechnological engineering – Week 1
Aloha, My partner Yash and I have been assigned a phenotyping project. Phenotypes are the physical characteristics of plants. One such characteristic is growth rate. The professors goal is to understand how plants growth rate changes based on environment. This is possible because Hawaii has a large range of climates from one side of the […]
Claire Shaver- Behavioral Science, Prologue
Hello, my name is Claire Shaver. I attend Telluride High School and this summer I have the privilege to intern at the Center on Human Development and Disability (CHDD) at the University of Washington in Seattle. I arrived in Seattle on Thursday and I was able to arrive at my host family’s house with no […]
Gregor Remec, LASP, Software Development, Week Four!
This week was super interesting. Early in the week I was programming in Java. Java is super nice for me because in school I took computer science class where we focused only on Java, so I knew what I was doing. The project was to create a card game. I chose blackjack because it is […]
Elena Scheibler, Pediatric Spinal Cord Research: Week 2
This past week has been my second week interning for pediatric spinal cord research and rehabilitation, and it has been amazing. On Monday, we conducted the last experiment for our safety and feasibility study. Things ran a lot smoother this time, as we had learned from the past mistakes and brought a printed-out protocol to […]