Cheska Hrupcin, Entomology Research with the Brosi Lab at RMBL(Crested Butte), Week 2
Hello again! My name is Cheska Hrupcin and this is the second week of my entomology internship! This week, I actually spent the majority of my time working with Pinhead for their PunkScience activities back home in Telluride. So last Sunday I drove back to Telluride and got settled in. Then on Monday, I met […]
Sophia McNamara, Microbes at the Schmidt lab UC Boulder, Week 2
Hello all! I’m excited to tell you about my first week at the Schmidt lab at UC Boulder. First, I’ll give a brief summary of the experiment which I a, helping with! My mentor, Steve Schmidt, wants to discern the limiting nutrient for cryoconite in Antarctic sediment holes. To do this, the lab has Antarctic […]
Tahlia Trevino, Marine Biology Research at Marine Science Institute (University of California Santa Barbara), Week Three
Hi everyone, my name is Tahlia Trevino, and this is my third week at the Miller Lab at UCSB! This week was less eventful than the last two weeks, but that meant I had plenty of time to enjoy Santa Barbara. Monday, July 3rd Today was a TRAITS day, which if you have not read […]
Giada Amundson, Organic Chemistry at Scripps Research Institute, Week 4
Hello everyone! My name is Giada Amundson and I am doing organic chemistry at Scripps. This is my 4th week, with 3 weeks left of this internship. I can’t believe I am over halfway through my internship! Monday, July 3 Today, we don’t have work because it is Independence Day, so we had a chill […]
Natalie Lopez Ramirez, Metabolism at the Ye Lab, Week 4
Hi everyone, I am Natalie Lopez Ramirez and this is week 4 of studying metabolism at the Ye Lab at Scripps. I didn’t go to work on Monday or Tuesday. On Monday the other pinterns and I spent most of the day just hanging out at the house. It was Lily’s last day so we […]
Aubrielle Weaver, Microbiology at San Diego State University, Week 3
I am Aubrielle Weaver, and I am spending my summer in San Diego, California, at San Diego State University (SDSU). For six weeks, I have been studying microbiology. My mentor is Gregory Burkeen, who is a Ph.D. student at SDSU. This is week 3 of my internship. I encourage you to read my previous blogs […]
Tiffany Wu, Chemistry at the University of Houston, Week Five
My name is Tiffany Wu and this is my fifth week at the University of Houston continuing my project with ellipsometry and the Arduino. This week, the Welch students (students from the other program also doing research) and us Pinhead interns had a poster session to prepare for since this week was their final week […]
Aiden’s aerospace engineering internship week 4
Hello everyone this my 4th week in Oklahoma. so far as a surprise the weather has been a bit of a surprise. It’s been a lot more cloudy with a little more rain fall. through out the week during mid day instead of the outside temperature getting to the 90’s and close to the 100’s […]
Saida Holder, Chemistry at the University of Houston Week 5
My fifth week at the University of Houston has went by incredibly fast! Each time I write a new blog about my week, I realize just how much I had gotten done that week. While I did not further my research much, I was able to learn a lot this week, especially having to present […]
Kiara Warren, Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop, Week 1
Hello, my name is Kiara Warren and I am interning at the Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop. It’s a workshop for scientists, professors, and graduate students to learn from one another and create projects based on topic areas in the Neuromorphic field. The four topic areas for 2023 are Audio-Motor Coupling, Neural Learning for Control, […]
Loudon Doemland, Astrophysics(CU Boulder), Week 4
Hello everyone! This week was a very eventful and exciting week at the Lab and for Baen and I. This was the first week we didn’t see our parents and technically fully live on our own. Monday was an exciting day in the lab. In the morning, I sat through one of their SPRITE meetings […]
Baen Tougher, Astro Physics and Astronomy, Week Four
This past week, Loudon and I began cleaning the flat-sat’s fasteners. We buzzed the bolts and screws in an ultrasonic cleaner to get them clean and not damage the electronics in the flat-sat; when the screws were done we took them out and dried them with nitrogen gas and sealed them in clean bags to […]