Hello, my name is Vivian Trommer. I’m a high school leader with a passion for cars and problem-solving. I love working with others to tackle intricate challenges and constantly seek opportunities to learn how things work. To expand my leadership skills, I joined the student...
Hi, my name is Jacob Sharpe, and I have a deep passion for stem work. I am very excited to be a Pintern this summer because I've always wanted to work in a lab and I want to explore a new place. My biggest strengths...
Hello, I’m Azari Guerrero, a junior at Telluride High School and a 2025 Pinhead intern. I’m independent, hardworking, caring, and bilingual. These qualities have helped me engage deeply in my studies and maintain great grades. In my free time, I volunteer with the Latino community as...
Hi, I'm Adam a junior at Telluride High School. I have an interest in developing applications and games. I have always enjoyed problem solving, and programming is the outlet of problem solving that I enjoy best. In my free time I enjoy spending time with...
Hello. My name is Oliver. I’m a junior in high school who loves ecology. I am hardworking and eager to learn, especially about ecology. I often research the restoration of rivers and native fish populations. I am an inquisitive person so I love to explore...
This was my last week doing my internship at ASU with assistant professor Matthias Heyden and his team. This week I was able to work a lot on the super computer and continued to learn the bash scripting language through the terminal. On Monday I was...
Hello! This was my last week in Santa Barbara interning for marine biology. I'm sad to be leaving such a beautiful place but also very excited to go home to my family. This week was shorter because both me and my fellow Pintern, Emma Galleger,...
Hello everyone, this was my final week in Santa Barbara and I am so grateful for this experience that the Pinhead organization helped me to achieve! On Monday we went into lab, each finished a transect and then checked past completed transects from last Friday. After...
This week is the first of a two week internship on computational chemistry at ASU. I am working under assistant professor Matthias Heyden who focuses on running simulations of atoms and complex chemical structures. During this first week I have learned a lot not just...
My last week went by very quickly, I continued treating the horses at the different barns. This consisted mostly of doing physicals, giving oral medicine, lavages, cold hosing horses, and putting a nebulizer on horses. They have multiple barns and many horses in these barns...
To say that I am already done with this internship is unbelievable. This final week was by far the most eventful to me, from being a part of the assembly of SPRITE to finishing my CubeSat Wavelength Calibration project. I'm happy to say that I...
Hi everyone, I just finished my final full week working at the Miller Lab at UCSB. On Monday this week me and my roommate Sam had to get up super early to meet our groups to go out on the boats that day. This was the...
I did it! I survived a six weeks in a completely new city, following a brand new schedule, working with people I just met. Not only did I survive, I thrived! I went in to this internship with an open mind because I didnt know...
Wow! Five weeks went by so fast! My last couple of days at RMBL, consisted of our typical fieldwork but we also engaged in bug pinning! The QNEST team had collected some syrphids and bees for us, so on Tuesday we got to work pinning them for...
Coming to the end of my internship, I am nothing but grateful for this opportunity and amazed with how much I learned. This has been the best space to explore my interests could ever ask for. That being said, the lab is still plenty busy...