Jay Alcazar: University of California, San Diego: Week 1
Hello! My name is Jay Alcazar and my internship is at UCSD. The George lab that I am working in used to be at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla but they just moved to UCSD recently because they are no longer able to be at Scripps because the building is being demolished. Myself and […]
Sean Taplin: Environmental Engineering, Week Two
This week at the University of Utah began with testing the CO2 sensor. Andrew, Charlie and I went on the Union roof to check that it would actually detect CO2 accurately, using the Panda Express vent on the roof. We first put the sensor as far away from the vent as we could, to get […]
Laila Skramstad Week 3: Rodham Institute at George Washington Univeristy
Hello Everyone! This week my focus was entirely on the Rodham Institute. I spent my whole week in the office planning activities for the HELP camp that Rodham holds every year, as well as constructing a curriculum for the Rodham Scholars employability program. Both programs are for kids in high school. In my research for […]
Elena Scheibler, Spinal Cord Research: Week 3
Wow, I am already half way through my internship and it has been amazing. This week we began preparing for a new grant, and the other interns and I were tasked with researching any similar studies done in the past, as well as creating a timeline for the grant. We will present our findings this […]
Danika Petit- Week One at George Lab: Addiction and Genetics
Hello everyone, my name is Danika Petit and I have an incredible opportunity to be interning at George Lab in San Diego. I drove here last weekend and began the internship on Monday. This week has been slow because of Olivier George and Giordano De Gulielmo presenting their research at a conference. We began our […]
Caroline Graham: Week One Aerospace Engineering
Hi Everybody! I’m Caroline Graham and am interning at Colorado University Boulder’s Aerospace Engineering program through the Pinhead Institute. The first week has been pretty awesome. Clara and I met our host family, Jean Coulter and Eben Clark, along with their two kids Shea and Quinn, last Sunday. They have been so helpful and welcoming […]
Claire Shaver- Behavioral Science, Week 1
Hello! This week was my first full week at the Bernier Lab at Center on Development and Disability at the University of Washington. Toward the beginning of week, as we finished up the DYRKA1a conference, I observed a Module 3 ADOS. Then for the rest of the week, I prepared and trained for a Clinical […]
Anza Connaughton: Spinal Rehabilitation at the Frazier Rehab Institute, Week 1
Hello! My name is Anza Connaughton and I’m a pintern from Ridgway High School in Ridgway, Colorado. My internship this summer is at the Frazier Rehab and Neuroscience Center in Louisville, Kentucky. Coming into this internship, I didn’t really have a lot of expectations. Based on what I’ve seen in Greys Anatomy, being an intern in […]
Eric Gutierrez Week 1: Aerospace Engineering
Hello! My name is Eric Gutierrez, I’m a student at Montrose High School. This summer, I have the privilege of interning at the Unmanned Systems Research Institute (USRI) at Oklahoma State University, led by Dr. Jamey Jacob. On my first day, right off the bat, I was informed of the upcoming projects that we would […]
Carter Andrew: Conservation Metrics: Week Two
Monday: When the morning came I was eager to get back to work. Whenever I take a hiatus from a project it lets me asses problems from different angles. I had a number of experiments I wanted to do in order to find the missing link: reading the 16 and 32-bit numbers in the .wav […]
Kira Galbraith Week 2: Forest Park Animal Hospital
Week two of my Pinhead internship in Panama City Florida and I already feel like I have learned so much. I have many mentors throughout the building. The head vet tech/manager, Rhonda, has been working at the practice for 28 years. She introduced me to the staff and teaches me what the vet tech responsibilities […]
Carter Andrew: Conservation Metrics: Week One
Hello everybody! My name is Carter Andrew and this summer I have the honor of attending Conservation Metrics in Santa Cruz, California. Conservation Metrics is a marine conservation company centered around data analysis, machine learning, and wildlife acoustics. At Conservation Metrics, we use machine learning with intuitive pipelines to help make predictions on past, current, […]