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,...
My third week in the lab consisted of working with three new analysis. The first is called System Energy Analysis. System Energy Analysis focuses on analyzing the correlation of system energy with measured IC50 values. What this basically does is it takes the average energy...
This week of my internship was probably the best thus far. In the lab, we accomplished a lot and were really able to tackle some of the biggest issues we have faced. Outside of the lab, I have continued to explore the Salt Lake City...
This week, we continued and finished thermal testing for MinXSS; also, we started building a possible replacement battery pack to be included on the satellite in its flight. Outside of the lab, I have progressed in writing the GUI to display rocket data; I have...
Its hard to believe that I only have one more week in DC, the time has really flown by. This week started out with a trip to the weight management clinic where I shadowed a physician who sees patients who need help with managing their...
My name is Alexa Yanosky and I am one of many 2018 Pinhead Interns from Montrose, Colorado. This summer I have the amazing opportunity to take part in a medical internship in the United States Virgin Islands, more specifically the beautiful island of St. Croix....
I cannot believe I only have two more weeks left here in Louisville! This past week has been both exciting and interesting as I am continuing to learn and experience new things. We started the week with a meeting with the whole team to finalize...
My name is Abigail Link and I am one of the five 2018 interns from Ouray High School. This past week starting on the 8th of July I begun the journey of my internship. My internship is in the St. Croix, U.S Virgin Islands shadowing...
The fourth week of my internship was amazing. To start the week we got our Xbee communication devices Daisy chained together. This helps increase the range of the devices, as data from the farthest Xbee can be relayed back to the receiver through the other...
I began this week by prepping my notebook with all the tables that I needed for measurements on Thursday and Friday. The beginning of the week was not busy as there was not much for me to do Monday and I had Tuesday and Wednesday off for...
This week, I joined in the rush to get the MinXSS 2 satellite ready for launch. I was involved in temperature testing of the satellite, which involved heating it and running a diagnostics test, as well as cooling and running diagnostics. I was tasked with...
