The first week at the Aerospace Engineering labs in CU Boulder was so interesting! We met our mentors, Andrew and Les, who showed us around and gave us a brief tour of the Engineering section on campus. After that, we went to the place we...
The first week for Aidan and I was a lot to take in. Our mentor, Andrew, dropped a ton of information about the satellite named Maxwell, it's components, functions, and its operating system named Hydra, which is our primary project. What we have to do...
For all that do not know me, I am Ian Enkema, a rising senior at Telluride High School. To start, let me thank Pinhead Institute for being a essential factor in securing my internship at the Joint Institute for Advanced Materials, and Cliff Hawks (CEO...
This week I have been working on a couple different projects, which has led me to learning more about problem solving. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday we feed the stingrays and shark. Round stingrays eat invertebrates such as worms, shrimp, amphipods, clams. The tanks need...
Week two for me happened to be a wild one at the museum. In the Entertainment department alone, we had 6 events: Sunday Swing, Stage Door Idol, Dine & Dance, the Bob Hope Foundation Movie Screenings, Best of Sinatra, and Stage Door Idol. I spent...
This week my lab received a shipment of new animals. We got 180 out bread (genetically diverse) rats. These rats will be run in similar experiments as have been preformed previously in the lab, but sense they are not in bread they will be useful...
Our 3rd week at biochem core UCSD we continued to further explore different aspects of computational chemistry and more specifically look into what different properties of various proteins affect the effectiveness of different drugs. We were able to do this by studying the molecular dynamic simulations of...
I had a fabulous, rather different week. I had my normal schedule of Husbandry in the morning and Sea Camp in the afternoon. This week I learned some of the food prep, which includes peeling shrimp-heads and all. Now, I could feed the animals beginning...
This week was exciting in preparing and traveling for going to Alamosa. CloudMap has been a great experience so far and the long days and flying has been great so far. We started out the week in Stillwater still where we started getting the weather...
Week four of my time in La Jolla has been fantastic. It was an exciting week in the lab as we received the new GWAS rats. These rats are different from the normal rats in that it is an outbred group rather than an inbred...