Pintern Blogs

I saw open heart surgery today! I thought I would open by talking about this fantastic experience, I got to stand at the head of the patient so close I could feel the heat of the cautery on my face. The surgeon started by cutting...

I’m Benjamin Leu, and I’m spending my summer at the University of Houston, in Houston Texas where I use electrochemistry and cyclic voltammetry to calculate for the real surface area of different metals. The fist week here I got to meet many different professors and...

Hey, I’m Evan, and my internship is with the Scripps Research Institute. I’m working with the Ye Lab who focus on studying metabolism at the Dorris Neuroscience Center or DNC for short. Every Monday morning, there is a meeting with everyone in the lab where...

Hi, I’m Alise Hardie. I’m a pintern who attends Montrose High School in Montrose, Colorado. I will be interning at Colorado School of Mines, along with Farrar Desloge. At Mines we are working for Professor Andrew Petruska who is a mechanical engineer and his undergraduate and...

I’m Karis Varner and I am spending my summer in San Diego California at the Harold L. Doris Neuroscience center  thank from the help from the Pinhead Institute for getting me this internship and the housing that came with it. My first week here has...

Hello! I am Brianna Stone and I’m a pintern who attends Montrose High School in Montrose, Colorado. This summer I have been provided the opportunity to experience an internship in Louisville, Kentucky at the Frazier Rehabilitation and Neuroscience Center. So far, my internship has included...

Hello, my name is Beck Gilliland and I am studying marine biology at the University of California in Santa Barbara. I arrived out here in Santa Barbara last Saturday and got to work on Monday. I am helping out on a grad student project that...

Hi! I’m Keegan Heaton and spending my summer at Colorado University Boulder’s Aerospace Engineering Sciences building for the next four weeks! In this Internship, I’ll be learning the trade associated with Machinists. This means I’ll get to use simple and advanced-level machinery and model parts...

Hi, my name is Karla Camacho and I will be at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York for the next two weeks. I am interning with the Emblematic Group as they exhibit their VR film, Please, Believe Me, at the Tribeca Film Festival. The...

My name is Farrar Desloge, and I am a student at Montezuma-Cortez High School. My internship this summer is at the Colorado School of Mines, working with Dr. Andrew Petruska, a prof. of Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Petruska specializes in robotics and magnet manipulation. I am...

Hi my name is Owen Doyle, I am studying architectural engineering at a firm called ME&E in Durango Colorado. In the beginning of this week, I began learning to use a 3D programming software called revit. I first started learning about mechanical engineering. Using ducts,...

Hi everyone and welcome to a recap of the last week on the farm! Monday morning I had an early start. I woke up at 5:30 and drove straight to the farm from Telluride. I was home to see my boyfriend before he left for...

Sunday, August 8th Hello hello; welcome to the fourth and final week of my internship here at the George Lab! This week was dissection week, and I absolutely SCORED because dissections only occur four times a year. During the week, we slowly moved freezers, self-administration...