Week 10 Review: 9/6 - 9/10

I spent all my time this week preparing for the end of the internship. I submitted a poster for admittance to the Association for Computing Machinery poster competition to be held at the Super Computing Conference in Dallas, Texas this year. Beyond that, I spent a lot of time organizing files and finishing mandatory assignments. On Monday I submitted a minute long video to a small competition for giving elevator pitches and got an honorable mention award on Thursday, which was a tie between 5th and 6th place out of 10. Not bad for one hour of recording at midnight. Thursday was the poster session for all the interns and it went fairly well. The expense of organizing the event probably wasn't worth the amount of visitors that came to participate, though. I will say that I was one of the few interns that presented their poster to Michael Stewart Witherell, the director of the lab! Now that was cool!

The research poster presented at the final poster session

There was a lot planned last week that simply couldn't be accomplished because of the other things I had to do this week. At least we now have a clear direction for continuing our research.

Thank you all for reading and hanging with us throughout the summer. It may be difficult to tell through words on a screen but it was a wild ride from start to finish and we all learned so much from our time here.