Welcome to my final blog post from this wonderful internship! I've spent the last month and a half doing some of the most exciting work ever, and it was incredibly formative, inspiring, and invigorating. I suppose I will just dive right into the events of this...
It is astounding how the past six weeks have flown past. My work during the final week consisted mainly of observing the communications board of a different satellite, CU-E3, going through troubleshooting because it wasn't cooperating with the radio correctly. The process involved a mixer...
My last week at the museum was bittersweet. It was wonderful working with Erica Jensen and getting to see what a semi-corporate workplace is like. Then, reflecting on all the things I learned, I spent time in almost every facet of the museum. Every department...
My last week I’m Tucson went by too fast! In the lab I finished another stimulus set that they hope to show Ham soon once he starts cooperating. Eggo underwent more training and he did very well. I left the lab with them having a...
Hello again! Welcome to my second and last Pinhead blog. As I stated in my earlier blog, I was only with Rover for 2 weeks, but in that amount of time I learned an immense amount. Since rover works in 2 week sprints, I got...
This week was a very exciting one for the lab. While my project was extended to more videos, tests were being conducted on a monkey named eggo. This paticular experiment invoked touch and it was the 2nd that neurological analysis of two different sections of...
Welcome to week six of my Pinhead Internship blog! This week was spent preparing for, and shooting one of two upcoming projects that Digital Domain will be working on. As well as learning more about the technical side of preparing for these shoots, I learned...
My second and final week as an intern for the NRCS, Natural Resource Conservation Service, went by all too quickly. While the air quality in Davis was not ideal, about the equivalent of chain smoking cigars while standing outside, I had a wonderful, worthwhile week....
This was my final week here in Long Beach and it flew by. In the lab, I continued to help an undergraduate with her jaws project. The shark lab received approximately 6,000 jaws that were confiscated by U.S. Fish and Wildlife. We have been working...
I cannot believe this was my last week in the lab and I am sad to see it all come to an end. This week we primarily focused on making our posters to present on our last day. We were to make three posters per...
Week five had a major success, but we won't actually be able to utilize the success because all of our equipment is still gone. Hydra now has no more errors and continues to run its commands and scripts without error. The script themselves were where...
This week, the last week, my mentor had to make a trip, so I been practicing my presentation with my lab parter. Then I went to the beach for the last time with some friends. I went to the closing ceremony to present, and I...
I had an amazing last week in Boulder both in and out of the lab! To start off the week I got to observe DNA extraction for the first time which was really cool! The Change Lab is currently waiting on more of their typical red...
My second and last week in Gothic was spent conducting experiments individually or in pairs. Our brainstorming period happened to be a day hike up a nearby mountain, stopping occasionally to look at and learn about research going on in the area. I then had...
Hello all! My name is Ben Lafferty and I am one of the many Pinterns this year from Telluride, Colorado. This summer I got the opportunity to learn what it is like to be a software developer at Rover.com. Rover is a website that provides...