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...
Hi! I’ve finished up the third week of my internship at the Frazier Rehab Institute. Unfortunately, about halfway through the week I was quarantined, but I got to experience so many different things before then! I assisted with the setup of a patient in a...
This whole week was largely spent continuing to familiarize myself with the lab and the cycle of reacting, testing, and purifying. During week two I shadowed Johnny for the first three days, and then when he took a couple days off, I shadowed Skylar for...
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...
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...
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...
Hello, my name is Yaphet, and I’m interning at UCSD in a program named ENLACE; this program is created to make high school students from Mexico and the US feel a college experience while getting out of their comfort zone doing internships in many STEM...
In my lab I am taking microscopic slides and turning them into thin films of silver (1 to 100 nm thick) using a evaporator to evenly distribute the silver onto the surface of the films. Then I will be measuring them with an ellipsometer to...
Quick recap, my name is Evan Strand and I’m interning at Scripps Research Institute researching the neuroscience of metabolism. This week felt both very repetitive and completely new. It started with a presentation for from Dr. Ya-chieh Hsu, a professor at Harvard University, talking about...
Hello everyone, I’m Taylor Holmes. I’m a Pintern from Telluride, Colorado. I’m spending several weeks this summer at the University of Utah in Salt Lake, interning with the Department of Environmental Engineering and Energy and Geoscience. When I started working Monday, we went into “The...
My name is Olivia Hatcher, and I am studying biochemistry at UCSD this summer. My first week has been some what crazy between my wonderful host family and my internship. The first couple of days of my internship were filled with paper work and safety...
