[caption id="attachment_20194" align="alignleft" width="113"] Love the eel being fed[/caption] 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 MSI's (Marine Science Institute) education and outreach...
My name is Rose Kirk-Landry and I am interning in environmental engineering at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Our team had a bit of a slow week because two of us got sick and the other intern was out of town. There were...
My last week of my internship was a really great experience! I finished several major projects and learned a lot, even at the end. I finished building the model rocket, and in addition to that, I built an altimeter which works off of air pressure...
Hello everyone! My name is Giada Amundson and I am doing organic chemistry at Scripps. I have been here for 3 weeks now, and 4 weeks to go. Almost halfway done already! Monday, June 26 I started today by making a larger batch of the same solution,...
Hello everyone! I am Melaina Yender and this is my third week researching neuroscience and click chemistry at the Ye Lab at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California. I have been conducting experiments with my mentors that allow us to trace drug targets...
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...
Here's a recap of what's happened so far. I am Lily Vogel and I am spending my pinhead internship in San Diego, California at the Ye Lab at Scripps Research Insitute learning about neurobiology. I am working under Yu Wang with her two undergrad interns:...
Hi everyone, my name is Tahlia Trevino, and this is the second week of my internship at the Miller Lab at UCSB. My internship is studying marine life along the coast of Santa Barbara. Monday, June 26 Today I started my week with what the people in...
Hi everyone, I am Natalie Lopez Ramirez and this is week 3 of studying metabolism at the Ye Lab at Scripps. [caption id="attachment_20000" align="alignleft" width="172"] Our Lab!![/caption] Monday morning we had our weekly team meeting. An international undergrad intern from the lab, Malcom, presented about the Calcium Dependency of...
I am Aubrielle Weaver, spending my summer in San Diego, California, at San Diego State University (SDSU). For the next six weeks, I will be studying microbiology. My mentor is Gregory Burkeen, who is a Ph.D. student at SDSU. This is week 2 of my...
Hi everybody! This is week three of my internship at the Fraizer Rehab Facility in Louisville Kentucky. This week I read many more case studies discussing the importance of central pattern generators in the body. There are two central pattern generators in the human body,...
[caption id="attachment_19951" align="alignleft" width="300"] Exciting next steps![/caption] To those who have read the past two week’s blogs, welcome back! And to those who are new here, welcome! My name is Brooke Duncan and I am doing a software development/engineering internship with Agile Onboarding here in Telluride,...
I'm Tiffany Wu, and this is my fourth week at the University of Houston working on my project about ellipsometry under the guidance of my mentor, Professor Baldelli. This week, I collected more data using the proper calibrations, built a replacement part for the machine,...
[caption id="attachment_19932" align="alignright" width="225"] window with solution behind it![/caption] My fourth week at the University of Houston went by so quickly! I never expected this internship to fly by as it has, and as each week goes by, I learn an incredible amount. This week, specifically on...
This week was exciting! I began the creation of my yoyo in earnest. I learned how to create Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) programs. This allowed me to use the large, 3-axis Fryer milling machines to begin machining my yoyos. I learned how to choose the...