Cutler Connaughton, Boulder CO – Week 1
Hi everyone! My name is Cutler Connaughton and I am an intern at CU Boulder through the 2021 Pinhead Internship Program. I am from the small town of Ridgway on the Westen Slope of Colorado. I traveled here to Boulder to intern at LASP or the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. I came to […]
Amelie Sante, Emblematic group, week 2
Hi again, my name is Amelie Sante and I am doing a virtual internship with Emblematic group. For a quick recap, Emblematic group is a digital media company focused on immersive virtual, mixed and augmented reality. I have now finished the second week of my internship where I have continued to get closer with the […]
Sammi Reed-Tybee Island Marine Science Center-Week 1
Hello, my name is Sammi. I am an intern at the Tybee Island Marine Science Center, in Savannah Georgia. I am learning about the marine life that is around the Tybee Island. There are many different sea life. I started working on Wednesday at the science center. I went on a couple camps with my […]
Francesca Schillaci: Rodham Institute, Week 1
Hello, I’m Francesca Schillaci and I am a Pinhead 2021 Intern from Telluride! Fortunately, my internship is in person! I am interning at the Rodham Institute housed within the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington D.C. The Rodham Institute strives for health equity in the D.C. area. The Rodham Institute does […]
Lulu Pumayalli, Marine Biology at CMIL, Week 2
Hello again, my name is Lulu Pumayalli and I am interning at the Coastal Marine Institute Laboratory (CMIL) in San Diego, California. As I mentioned in last week’s blog, I was mainly working with lobsters and sea urchins but this week I have started a project with other lab members from CMIL that will last […]
Didi EarthTree, Marine Biology at CMIL, Week 2
Didi EarthTree, Marine Biology at CMIL, Week 2 Hello, my name is Didi and my internship is at the CMIL Marine Biology lab. I am working with lobsters and microorganisms. At the lab, we are studying the feeding patterns of the lobsters along with counting and identifying microorganisms in eelgrass. This lab is in San […]
Emery Berry Week 3 Pinhead internship
In the final week of my internship, we focused on staining the roots we collected the week before and viewing them through the microscope. Monday and Tuesday were spent going through the dyeing process. We began by taking roots out of the test tubes and placing around 5 to 6 in a small orange cassette. […]
Jadin Scott, Rohwer Lab, Week 1
Hello, my name is Jadin Scott and I am a 2021 Pintern from Telluride, Colorado. This past weekend I made the trek from my little mountain town across the desert and arrived in San Diego, California. During my time here, I will be working at San Diego State University on the Rohwer Lab, studying the […]
Chris Pohorecki – Week 3 – OSU Aerospace Engineering Internship
Hello again! My name is Chris Pohorecki and this is a recap of my third week at my OSU Aerospace Engineering internship! As you may know from my previous posts, our group has been tasked with creating a bi-copter capable of VTOL flight and horizontal flight. Our concept will then be tested against a replica […]
Emery Berry week 2 pinhead internship
Welcome to week two! I began this week by meeting another undergraduate student that we would be working with named Emily. After she got the tour of the lab and met everyone else, Adam began to walk us through important sterile techniques. Sterile techniques are important for keeping a sample pure and preventing the microbes […]