Mercedes Martinez- Forensic Entomology – “Oh Deer…” – The Ballad of Deer 82/37
{VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED} 7/2/19 – I woke up this morning just like any other day. I went through my morning routine as usual – I did everything except eat breakfast. I got to Headquarters at 9:30 am, which was about a 1 mile walk. After being debriefed by Cristina, the wonderful woman who helps […]
Mercedes Martinez- Forensic Entomology, Prologue
7/1/19 – Hello! My name is Mercedes Martinez and I attend Dolores High School, and through the Pinhead Institute I have had the amazing opportunity to intern at the Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch in Elgin, Arizona. I actually arrived here on Friday (6/28/19) and have been slowly learning about the surrounding wildlife and plant life that […]
Ethan Barnes: Game Dev, Week 3
Wow, its the end of week 3? Well, that’s kinda crazy! So, the last week has gone great, I checked out downtown Denver and did cool stuff at Illfonic and finished the Discord Hack Week. Well, let’s start with what I did at Illfonic, eh? At the beginning of this week helped Jeremy move the […]
Kendahl Roufa Week 4: Food Waste Management at School of Mines, Concluding my research and presenting my final findings to Mikaela and Amy
Hello Friends and welcome to my final blog post. I spent my last week working outside at the Mines campus, pulling together a presentation. The presentation covered what my goals for the internship were, what I accomplished, and considering what someone who would be picking up the job might start on. I also finished up […]
Georgia Pieper Week 4: HIMB Coral Study
Hello! This week Miranda and I retrieved data from our flow experiment. We were able to calculate the flow level for each of the lines to obtain the flow rate and water exchange rate. We also took the mass and volume of each of our 180 coral fragments for the week. We later gathered and […]
Rachael Burson – Biotechnological Engineering – week 2
Aloha, My partner Yash and I have been assigned a phenotyping project. Phenotypes are the physical characteristics of plants. One such characteristic is growth rate. The professors goal is to understand how plants growth rate changes based on environment. This is possible because Hawaii has a large range of climates from one side of the […]
Caroline Lucarelli: Cartilage Research/Equine Surgery: Week 3
I have reached the halfway point of my internship and I’m sad to say it has gone by fast. This week I worked with two different samples of cartilage and both tests ran smoothly. While running the tests I have learned more about the mechanical engineering side of this research; such as the reasoning for cartilage being […]
Gregor Remec, LASP Software Development, Week Five!
This week was super interesting. All week I was writing in C and C++. I learned a ton about the languages! I had a few assignments including finishing the ‘giant numbers’ datatype and a multiprocessing assignment. Both were very interesting because before now I had never programmed in C or C++ so I got to […]
Peter Spencer: DiPhoton work with simulated CMS data: Week 1
I have made it to Boston and have started work at BU! I’ve been working directly with a 1st-year graduate student at BU(Alp). He has been helping me to make these beautiful graphs and pull data from a database of simulated particle accelerator collisions. My project with this talented group is to hopefully create a […]