[caption id="attachment_9277" align="alignright" width="300"] Branches of the Mississippi (from the plane)[/caption] Today is my first week here at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. Jazz is being played, the humidity is real, and I've been bustling around getting acquainted with the Science and Technology, Education,...
This week was another exciting one for me. On Monday Lexie and I finally had the communication device that attaches to our temperature sensor communicating and sending its data over 800 feet. I am glad to see that our work on this project for the...
[caption id="attachment_9236" align="alignright" width="341"] My computer process of cataloging the coral images.[/caption] Welcome back! At the beginning of this week I photographed two trays full of bricks with coral growth experiments on each of the five sides. Then I spent two days cataloging the images and measuring them while...
This week the team at USRI prepared for a project known as CloudMap. If you did not read my previous post, CloudMap is a collaborative initiative by multiple universities to map weather phenomena using unmanned systems. The next CloudMap project will be in Alamos Co,...
This week of my internship was amazing!! I went on the scholastic expeditions trip to the channel islands and had a blast. Both full days we were anchored at the islands we had rotations of kayaking, snorkeling, and invertebrate ID. The second day we were there the group went...
This was an exciting week for my internship as I was finally able to handle the rats being used for research. Most of what the interns in the lab (including me) do is transfer rats from their home cages to self-administration chambers and back, while...
This week was more about preparing machines for the campaign in Alamosa called CloudMap. Oklahoma State University Research Institute is sending a team of people to Colorado all with different jobs to study wind and weather data coming off a mountain. My week went well...
[caption id="attachment_9113" align="alignleft" width="225"] Smithsonian Welcome Center[/caption] I am officially half way through my internship and this week things at the Rodham Institute have started to pick up. I started off the week by going to the hospital and rounding with residents on the general medicine...
My name is Emmanuel Ledesma and I am one of the interns from Olathe High School. Myself and Tyler, another Pinhead Intern, are working with the Amaro Lab at the University of California, San Diego(UCSD). My journey started on Sunday, June 24, as I flew...
My name is Carlos Rodriguez. I’m from Montrose High School. My internship is at UCSD in La Jolla, San Diego California. I’m in a research program called ENLACE. I arrived San Diego on Sunday June 24th. I checked in and got my keys for of my...
The first week in San Diego Califonia has been both a thrilling one and a challenging one. The first week of my internship at the UCSD BioChemCore has been a boot camp of learning how to code in various different coding languages such as python and...
The second week of my internship was very interesting as I had the opportunity to do work that was quite different from the molecular work I did last week. Having completed two courses regarding humane animal experimentation and animal handling, I was able to touch...
I am doing my Pinhead Internship at the University of Colorado, Boulder, at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. This week, my main task was getting started on a Python program that would take data from the satellites and make it available to read in...
And just like that, week two is over! This week was a little more mellow than last week, but by no means less exciting. [caption id="attachment_9174" align="alignleft" width="141"] The anemometer I worked with[/caption] On Monday, I worked with an anemometer and got it reading correctly for a...
I had another fabulous week here at the Tybee Island Marine Science Center and I think I am finally staring to get the hang of things. A typical work day for me is helping in the husbandry, acting as a gallery interpreter, or helping with...