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Collaborated with team members to plan and develop a virtual escape room experience for the Small World Initiative website encouraging women and minorities to pursue careers in STEM. This project involved researching female figures in STEM, puzzles, and exciting new technology for use in the escape room storyline. I also designed and illustrated a female.

Greater San Diego Area

I initially participated in this internship as a high school student in 2015 and returned in college to assist again. Previous work (December 2015 - June 2016) included: organizing and updating the lab reference collection of several thousand specimens for utilization in future research projects, as well as collecting/analyzing the contents of dissected.

Greater San Diego Area

I synthesized gold-cobalt Janus (amalgam) nanoparticles to assist a Doctoral Candidate in her dissertation research. I also performed variations of the established standard procedure to assess results under different experimental conditions and recorded data from each iteration of the procedure and any changes in methodology or outcome in an Excel.

Greater San Diego Area

From 11th grade through the summer before my senior year, I participated in a collaborative, student-led research project examining the effects of caffeine in coffee on the growth of yeast cells with various gene deletions. My responsibilities included: mixing agar plates, pinning and streaking yeast colonies, and recording the experiment’s data in a lab.