The first week for Aidan and I was a lot to take in. Our mentor, Andrew, dropped a ton of information about the satellite named Maxwell, it's components, functions, and its operating system named Hydra, which is our primary project. What we have to do...
For all that do not know me, I am Ian Enkema, a rising senior at Telluride High School. To start, let me thank Pinhead Institute for being a essential factor in securing my internship at the Joint Institute for Advanced Materials, and Cliff Hawks (CEO...
This week I have been working on a couple different projects, which has led me to learning more about problem solving. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday we feed the stingrays and shark. Round stingrays eat invertebrates such as worms, shrimp, amphipods, clams. The tanks need...
Week two for me happened to be a wild one at the museum. In the Entertainment department alone, we had 6 events: Sunday Swing, Stage Door Idol, Dine & Dance, the Bob Hope Foundation Movie Screenings, Best of Sinatra, and Stage Door Idol. I spent...
This week my lab received a shipment of new animals. We got 180 out bread (genetically diverse) rats. These rats will be run in similar experiments as have been preformed previously in the lab, but sense they are not in bread they will be useful...
Our 3rd week at biochem core UCSD we continued to further explore different aspects of computational chemistry and more specifically look into what different properties of various proteins affect the effectiveness of different drugs. We were able to do this by studying the molecular dynamic simulations of...
I had a fabulous, rather different week. I had my normal schedule of Husbandry in the morning and Sea Camp in the afternoon. This week I learned some of the food prep, which includes peeling shrimp-heads and all. Now, I could feed the animals beginning...
This week was exciting in preparing and traveling for going to Alamosa. CloudMap has been a great experience so far and the long days and flying has been great so far. We started out the week in Stillwater still where we started getting the weather...
Week four of my time in La Jolla has been fantastic. It was an exciting week in the lab as we received the new GWAS rats. These rats are different from the normal rats in that it is an outbred group rather than an inbred...
Even with our fourth week here wrapping up it feels like we started only yesterday. This was our last week in Stillwater. Early on Friday morning the USRI team, Simon, and I packed up a trailer and left for Alamosa Colorado, where we would be...
This is my 3rd week in my project at UCSD. In this week, we been preparing samples of graphene. The process to get ready a sample of graphene to be tested is a little long because it needs to be submerged in acetone a couple hours...
Hello! My name is Jess Pack, and I am from Telluride High School. I began my five week internship this week at the CU Change lab in Boulder! In the Change Lab I will be volunteering in the FORCE study, that is conducted in the...
I am Julieanna Goad from Dolores High School interning at UCSB (University of California Santa Barbara) in a program called REEF (The Research Experience and Education Facility). I am currently under the supervision of Scott Simon the head of REEF. This week was summer vacation...
This week at the REEF was really entertaining. Monday we only had one program which was freshman orientation and the rest of the day was husbandry such as egg check, which is making sure that our shark eggs are still alive and developing, siphoning, which...
The second week of my internship has been great! I have learned a great deal, met some extremely smart and creative people, and seen some cool things in and around LA. To facilitate a better understanding of what I'm working on in this blog post, I...
