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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Blog Post Week 10

This week is a wrap up. I have been working on my final research paper and putting everything together of what I have done here in the internship for this semester. I have to say I have learned a lot from my mentors and peers. However, it is still not over. We still have one last presentation at Metro tech and I am pretty excited considering that I graduated from there. So hopefully I get to see some of my teachers as well. I just want to thank everyone who has been a part of this great experience being my first semester here in STEM. The knowledge and experience I have gained will help me in life and enhance my opportunities to continue doing research in the future. 
Nanodrop used to calculate the
amount of DNA and its purity.

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Blog Post Week 9

This week was so crazy preparing for our presentations which were on Thursday. We went over our posters with our mentors and they gave us feedback on what we should say, how to say, what was on the rubrics, etc... It was a really great help to have them there always willing to help us and guide us through our project. During the conference we got to meet a lot of people and their research topics which was very interesting to hear. It was a really great experience and the food was great as well. Unfortunately I had to leave early because I had a Chemistry test and so I wasn't able to stay until the end. However, I heard that we did great as a school and our mentors are very proud of us. I know next year will be a successful one as this year and hopefully we have more students taking places for the conference.
These are my two gels before I ran then
 through Electrophoresis. I had two batches
and there were six protocols therefore I made
two gels with one batch on one and the second
batch on the other. The Yellowish/Orangish
color is the molecular ladder and the
blue are my samples with the
cyber-green on them.