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 […]
Owen Doyle, Architectural Engineering, Week 3
Hey, my name is Owen Doyle and I am interning at an architectural engineering firm in Durango CO, called ME&E. I have been doing a bunch of Mechanical engineering in the first two weeks but last week I got to learn more about the electrical side of engineering here. I learned about sin curves, phases, […]
Canyon Ishikawa, Organic Chemistry at Scripps Research Institute, Week 1
Hey, my name is Canyon, and I’m interning at the Scripps Research Institute. I intern within the chemistry department thats pioneering new reactions to create more efficient techniques on making certain molecules. More specifically, my lab, lead by Keary Engle, focuses on organic chemistry that uses metals to form bonds, this is known as metal […]