Pintern Blogs

This week while working with the evaporator to deposit silver onto microscopic films the switches in the evaporator broke. I spent most of the week designing new switches and problem shooting the evaporator. I got it working again and am continuing with my experiment. Using some...

Hey all, my name is Owen Doyle and I'm interning at an architectural engineering firm called ME&E in Durango Colorado. This week I spent mainly at home due to covid but work was mainly the same. I did more complex work understanding one of the...

This week was great! I started the week off with some data analysis where I made graphs on excel using the data I collected from the experiment last week. Then, I continued to work in the lab where I made more samples using my KPI...

Hey everyone, Beck here updating you all from Santa Barbara. This week was spent a lot on the computer again looking at photos to label clam species. This week was also the start of the summer quarter here at UCSB (UCSB is on the quarter...

This week started off by taking Monday off because of the National holiday Juneteenth. On Tuesday Graham and I got straight back to working on the 3D printer. The current problem we were experiencing was that the z-axis sensor wasn't working. We spent all Tuesday...

Hello everyone! My name is Taylor LaRose and this was my first week at my internship at the UC Santa Barbara. I started later in the week as I arrived Tuesday and took the day to get ready. I met my roommate and fellow intern...

Hi all, My name is Farrar, and I am working at the School of Mines in Golden. I am working under Dr. Petruska, a professor of engineering at Mines. I am working with him and one of his PhD students, Rich, on a few projects in...

On my second week of my pinternship I continued troubleshooting the Modix 3-d Printer at LASP(Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics) with my fellow intern River.  We worked all week on the printer with highs and lows, we couldn't figure out how to configure the...

Hello all, my name is Amiyah Ogo and I attend school at Montezuma-Cortez High School and I am studying Marine Biology at the “REEF” at the University Of California Santa Barbara (UCSB).  This week was my first week here at the REEF. I'll explain what...

This week I started out by making a DAC board for collecting data. These circuit boards have elevation instruments and upload data on memory cards. I had to solder all of these parts onto a UNO board, the base of the DAC, and ensure my...

Hi, I'm Alise Hardie, an intern working with Dr.Petruska, a mechanical engineering professor at Colorado School of Mines. Where Farrar and I work in his lab on different graduate students projects. I've been working with Austin for the past 3 weeks now at Mines. We have...

Hi, my name is Ava Osborne and I am interning at Asteroid Day in the small country of Luxembourg.  This week was mainly preparing for the upcoming events.   I wrote a lot of posts for the social media to get everyone who follows Asteroid Day...