Yaphet Reyes Powell – University of California, San Diego, Nano engineering – Week 7 (Last week)
This week was a wrap-up for everything in the program, it was a preparation for an upcoming science presentation I gave with Arturo my lab partner, we had some free days and I hung out more with my roommates visiting different parts of San Diego. Monday we had a seminar with a famous bass […]
Yaphet Reyes Powell – University of California, San Diego, Nano engineering – Week 6
This week has been a preparation for our final presentation, we had been working on some slides and finishing some electrochemical analysis we needed to complete the research we are doing entirely. Monday we disable the uncoated and coated Li-metal anodes with PVDF/ALF3. After that Taehee reserved the SEM for further analysis into the […]
Yaphet Reyes Powell – University of California, San Diego, Nano engineering – Week 5
Week 5 has been way freer than previous weeks, this week was the last week with college prep seminars meaning that we are free of homework for the last 2 weeks. Furthermore, in the lab, Arthur and I were left freely around getting assigned tasks by Taehee and doing them with the previous knowledge gained, […]
Yaphet Reyes Powell – University of California, San Diego, Nano engineering and Electro Chemestry- Week 4
Hello, This week has been really enjoyable for me it has been challenging knowledge wise but the results in the lab have paid off, this week the lab was laid off to 2 pm the entire week since the glove box needed regeneration and it takes 18 hours for it, and lastly, we are doing […]
Yaphet Reyes Powell – University of California, San Diego, Nanoengineering and Electro chemestry- Week 3
Hello, This week has been really confusing since some activities cut me out of my regular lab schedule, however, my mentor Taehee has gotten more comfortable with leaving me, and my lab partner Arthur alone at the lab using all of the tools and making different solutions, something that I am really happy about, as […]
Yaphet Reyes Powell – University of California, San Diego, Nanoengineering and Chemical Engineering- Week 2
On Monday we started with an 8:00 am seminar about gun violence with an attorney, then I and my lab partner Arthur went to the lab together on scooters. When we arrived at the lab our mentor told us that everything we did last week wasn’t useful since the solution wasn’t homogenous when set in […]
Yaphet Reyes Powell – University of California, San Diego, Nanoengineering and Electrochemistry- Week 1
Hello, my name is Yaphet, and I’m interning at UCSD in a program named ENLACE; this program is created to make high school students from Mexico and the US feel a college experience while getting out of their comfort zone doing internships in many STEM areas. Well, the leader of the lab is Dr. Zheng […]