Week 5:
A Special Visitor
June 23, 2021 | Monday was a very fun day! Professor Rhawn came all the way from Iowa to South Carolina to visit the campus and see the lab facilities. The day started out with working on the sensor with Chandler like usual, it wasn’t long before I made the trip to Professor Tye’s office and found Professor Rhawn. […]
Week 4:
Attack of the Shelving Unit (and some other museum business)
June 23, 2021 | Tying up Loose Ends This was a week of primarily finishing up and continuing work on old projects. I spent this week continuing to edit the History Adventure video and continuing research for the upcoming exhibit. It was nice to finally have a final product for the video that I and the other intern have […]
Week 1:
A 44 hour bus ride, Ukulele choir, and few hundreds meals later
June 23, 2021 | The past week has been an extraordinary experience. I took this picture right before traveling to Davenport, Iowa to take the bus to Boston, Massachusetts. Yes, perhaps you even raised your eyebrow, the journey was 44-hour strong letting me knit sightings and record observations through cities like Chicago, Columbus in Ohio, Harrisburg, Philadelphia City, New […]
Week 3:
Diving Into Scoring
June 23, 2021 | From right to left: David, Kevin, Scoring Master Tyler (virtual), Olivia, and me working on scoring training file 5 We began digging deep into the scoring curriculum training files this week. As it turns out, scoring is an even more complex art form than I had previously guessed. Even with this complexity, we ended […]
Week 4:
Handling Raptors
June 23, 2021 | This week I spent a lot of time handling almost all of the raptors we have on-site. I really enjoy handling them. I learn something new about each raptor we have on-site each day. I learned how to hold each raptor in the following order: Omaha the American Kestrel, Little Horn the Eastern Screech Owl, […]
Week 1:
3 Bucks, 2 Bags, 1 Me – NYC
June 17, 2021 | This first week of my program has been crazy, jam-packed, and filled with amazing experiences! I can’t believe I’ve experienced so much in such a short amount of time! I came to New York City with my mom on Friday, June 4th, on an American Airlines flight from O’Hare in Chicago. Flying is already a […]
Week 2:
Takin’ Care of Business
June 17, 2021 | Early this week I attended two meetings that really helped the development of my project. The first was the weekly R&D meeting where I had the opportunity to present my background research and speak with Tri to better understand the importance of my project. The second was a meeting with a sales representative whose company […]
Week 4:
Retrieving the Sensor and Starting a New Lab
June 17, 2021 | The start of the week was very slow, and I spent most of it relaxing in my room, however on Wednesday things began to pick up steam. It was the start of the COVID-19 lab. We started off by going to the water processing plant and collecting the water samples. There was a total of […]
Week 3:
I Do It For The Cause
June 15, 2021 | This is Real Life “By age 5, nearly every child will have an episode of rotavirus gastroenteritis.” -Umesh Parashar, CDC publication Rotavirus is an enteric virus that causes gastroenteritis and other gastrointestinal issues. The main symptom is diarrhea and resulting dehydration. Umesh Parashar CDC publication tells us that by age 5, almost everyone has had […]
Week 3:
Research and Paper Chains
June 15, 2021 | New Skills Most of this week was spent working for the education department on a Summer History Adventure video meant for kids. This was definitely something new for me. For one, I do not have a ton of experience working with or teaching younger kids, so I was not so sure how to go about […]