I’m Jai Sanchez and I’m spending my summer in Santa Barbara California studying marine and coastal life at UCSB/the REEF. (Research Experience & Education Facility) The REEF is part of the Marine Science Institute’s (MSI) education and outreach program. The REEF is dedicated to teaching...
Hello everyone! I hope that my blog post finds you well. My name is Ashlee Petranovich and I am currently in Murray, Kentucky attending Murray State University. While I am here on my internship I will be collaborating with four different programs that are focused...
Hi all! This is week four of my internship at the Fraizer Rehab Facility in Louisville Kentucky. Even though this week was short due to the holiday, it was still a fantastic week! I continued to observe physical and occupation therapy sessions. Now that I...
Hello again! My name is Cheska Hrupcin and this is the second week of my entomology internship! This week, I actually spent the majority of my time working with Pinhead for their PunkScience activities back home in Telluride. So last Sunday I drove back to Telluride...
Hello all! I’m excited to tell you about my first week at the Schmidt lab at UC Boulder. First, I’ll give a brief summary of the experiment which I a, helping with! My mentor, Steve Schmidt, wants to discern the limiting nutrient for cryoconite in...
Hi everyone, my name is Tahlia Trevino, and this is my third week at the Miller Lab at UCSB! This week was less eventful than the last two weeks, but that meant I had plenty of time to enjoy Santa Barbara. Monday, July 3rd Today was a...
Hello everyone! My name is Giada Amundson and I am doing organic chemistry at Scripps. This is my 4th week, with 3 weeks left of this internship. I can't believe I am over halfway through my internship! Monday, July 3 Today, we don't have work because it...
Hi everyone, I am Natalie Lopez Ramirez and this is week 4 of studying metabolism at the Ye Lab at Scripps. I didn’t go to work on Monday or Tuesday. On Monday the other pinterns and I spent most of the day just hanging out at...
I am Aubrielle Weaver, and I am spending my summer in San Diego, California, at San Diego State University (SDSU). For six weeks, I have been studying microbiology. My mentor is Gregory Burkeen, who is a Ph.D. student at SDSU. This is week 3 of...
My name is Tiffany Wu and this is my fifth week at the University of Houston continuing my project with ellipsometry and the Arduino. This week, the Welch students (students from the other program also doing research) and us Pinhead interns had a poster session...
My fifth week at the University of Houston has went by incredibly fast! Each time I write a new blog about my week, I realize just how much I had gotten done that week. While I did not further my research much, I was able...
Hello, my name is Kiara Warren and I am interning at the Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop. It's a workshop for scientists, professors, and graduate students to learn from one another and create projects based on topic areas in the Neuromorphic field. The four topic...
Hello everyone! This week was a very eventful and exciting week at the Lab and for Baen and I. This was the first week we didn't see our parents and technically fully live on our own. Monday was an exciting day in the lab. In the...
This past week, Loudon and I began cleaning the flat-sat's fasteners. We buzzed the bolts and screws in an ultrasonic cleaner to get them clean and not damage the electronics in the flat-sat; when the screws were done we took them out and dried them...
Hello! My name is Cheska Hrupcin and I am interning with the Brosi Lab (University of Washington) at RMBL (Rocky Moutain Biological Laboratory) in Gothic (Crested Butte), Colorado! This week I worked alongside my mentor, Chris Anderson, (a Harvard grad currently working to get his PhD!),...