Pintern Blogs

On the Monday of my last week, I started to build the inflatable-winged airplane. I cut the fuselage nose and tail as well as the v-tail pieces on the laser cutter and then built the body up. I decided to reinforce the fuselage by adding...

This week, I spent my time working on a presentation that I am supposed to give to a group of undergraduates before handing my research over to them. While researching, I have had to think about the reproducibility of my work, patterns, and methodology. I...

On Monday we implemented the motor into the middle piece of the plane. We felt this method of squishing the foam between two plates would be a sturdy way of binding the motor to foam. I designed and laser cut a piece of wood to...

This week was great! It was extremely productive and I got to break out of my usual work routine. To start of the week, I attended a meeting at the Institute of Behavioral Science, then in the middle of the week I attended another meeting...

Hello, everyone! Monday was a somewhat slow day. We did a lot of computer aided designing (CADing) for our solar cell box proto-type because our group leaders decided to use our design for the solar cell box and they needed a specific design outline for...

Monday was a celebration for the other high schoolers’ departure. We went to the airfield to shoot off the rockets we had made previously and to have a cookout. It was fun talking with the other kids and seeing everyone there. When we started launching...

Hope you all are well! I’ve kept y’all waiting for long enough! Week 5 was my last week in Kentucky however I will be continuing my work into the school year with my professor. In terms of my project, without doing an official analysis we’ve...

This week was great. I have been in head and neck surgery for two weeks. I learned how to suture and read different scans. I was in a tumor resection of the ear where I saw all of the middle ear structure. They resected both...

As the title states, it’s been three weeks since I arrived in Boulder for my internship. It has felt a lot shorter than I anticipated, even so, I have learned much more than I could have imagined. I followed the same routine, as usual, I...

Hello everyone! This week, I continued to work on the user interface of the Percy Health App. I was able to develop a function that would facilitate the creation of multiple screens with varying questions. This task took up Tuesday through Thursday, mostly because it...

I began this week with the goal to print a successful print on the 3d Printer that Dmitry could actually use. I attached the secondary printhead and did a few calibrations to make it work. It was working perfectly except for the fact that the...

This week at my internship was mainly focused on building and flying kites. On Monday, we were given a new project to work involving kites. We were tasked with building a proto-type attachment for a kite that would hold a telescope. This kite would be...