Keegan Heaton | Aerospace Machinist | Week III
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 soldering was clean and uniform. If the soldered prongs touched […]
Alise Hardie – Colorado School of Mines – Week 3
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 have started a new file or page of code which […]
Ava Osborne, Asteroid Day, Luxembourg – Week 2
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 excited. I also wrote a newsletter that will go out […]
Yaphet Reyes Powell – University of California, San Diego, Nanoengineering and Electrochemistry- Week 1
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 areas. Well, the leader of the lab is Dr. Zheng […]
Science is for Punks
Get the lowdown on this summer’s Punk Science series – kicking off with our very own Chris Anderson a former Pinhead Intern!
Electrochemistry internship at University of Houston week 2
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 determine there actually thickness in nm. This first week I […]
Evan Strand | Scripps Neuroscience Lab | Week 2
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 her experiment on testing the cause of grey hair and […]
Taylor Holmes-University of Utah-Environmental Engineering and the Energy and Geoscience-Week 1
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 Cave” to visit the PICARRO, which is a gas detector […]
Olivia Hatcher – Biochemistry – Week 1
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 trainings. Once I completed those, I learned some new chemistry […]
Keegan Heaton | Aerospace Machinist | Week II
I began the week brainstorming personal projects that I would work on in my spare time. I was tasked with doing the entire process from scratch and using physical objects and my mentors as resources. I had decided to make a fidget that would go on my keychain! There would be a small gear conversion […]