Sunny Wick Smithsonian NYLT Ridgway Secondary School
Hello, my name is Sunny Wick. I am a junior at Ridgway Secondary School. I have been given the opportunity to be an intern for the Smithsonian as part of their National Youth Leadership Team. I will have the chance to meet with Youth Leaders around the country over a series of biweekly Zoom calls […]
Month of February Zoom Meetings
Hi, I’m Jackson McCabe. I am doing an internship with both the Smithsonian and the Pinhead Institute. In July I will go to Washington, D.C. for one week to help the Smithsonian with their Museums. We do Zoom calls everyother Tuesday, two hours each call. In February, we had two Zooms. In our first Zoom […]
Jayden Hernandez, Smithsonian YLT, February
Hi everyone, I’m Jayden! I am currently a junior at Olathe High School and have been given the opportunity to be an intern for the Smithsonian National Youth Leadership Team this spring and summer. I am involved in a wide range of extracurricular activities, from cross-country to serving as a student lobbyist with West Slope […]
Oliver Colaw, Tybee Island Marine Science Center, Week #3
I just finished my third week here at the Marine Science center here on Tybee Island. I learned so much this week about all the animals. Because I was not working with the kids this week I had the opportunity to learn so much more than I have in the last two weeks. I was […]
Valeria Hernandez- VRCC Emergency + Critical Care Internship Week 5
Hello everyone, this week was my last week at VRCC and I got to spend it with the Emergency and Critical Care Department. They are there 24/7 with many people so I got to meet new people everyday. There was no appointments but they did do priorities first. In this department, they also explained that […]
Ally Metzger – Ecology at RMBL – Week 4
Hi everyone! This will be my last post here, as Week 4 wraps up my time at RMBL, a biological research station situated in the historic mining town of Gothic, just outside of Crested Butte, CO. To give the rundown, one last time, I am working at RMBL in the Brosi Lab, specifically with Annie’s […]
Destiny Lawley UCSB Marine Science Institute Week 4
Hello everybody and welcome back to the blog and week 4 of the internship. This week I had most of the week to myself so I was working on ViQi a lot. On Thursday my friend and I went out to dinner and she spent the night at my place. The next day she went […]
CJ Horning LASP Internship Week 8
Week eight at LASP has flown by, filled with plenty of research and some memorable adventures. Hugh and I continued working on repeatability and started to help draft a paper for the upcoming SPIE conference. After our internship some of the undergrads we have worked with will go present the paper at SPIE. The SPIE […]
Oliver Colaw, Tybee Island Marine Science Center, Week #2
I just finished my second week here on Tybee island and I learned so much this week. I had so many cool experiences inside and outside of work which has been amazing. Throughout the week I continued to work in the Science Centers sea camp. This week I felt like I learned a little more […]
Hugh Hatcher LASP Week 7
Hi everyone—my name is Hugh Hatcher. This week at LASP (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics) in Boulder, Colorado, I continued working with Dmitry Vorobiev and the rest of the team on our ongoing UV fiber-optics project. To start this week we made another improvement to our experiment set up to help our results by […]