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1. Tessa Geoly (11) got the chance to intern at a small PR firm called Molten PR. She worked with a couple of smaller companies, helping them create marketing campaigns. She
even got the chance to spend a month in London, England. At the start of this internship, she had wanted to get into business and PR, but as time went on she realized that it wasn’t for her. She said that “although this was a great experience and I had a lot of fun, I don’t think it’s something I want to pursue further.”
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2. Mick Jeon (12) got the unique chance to intern at a biomedical company where he was given the opportunity to use different biomedical scanners. He analyzed MRI and CAT scans and completed software beta testing. An interesting thing about internships is that they provide you an opportunity to discover whether a topic or subject is right for you. Mick came to a realization that even though it was a great experience, biomedical research wasn’t what he wanted to do when he was older. The internship made him understand that he didn't “want to have an office job organizing files.”
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“Not something I
would want to
commit my life to.” - Devin Schinski (12)
3. During the summer, Devin Schinski (12) interned at Erin Mordecai’s lab in Stanford where he helped with the study of interspecies competition between native and non-native grasses in local California chaparral areas. His research focused on the effects that fungal pathogens had on them. Upon reflection, Devin realized that ecology “just seemed a little tedious and wasn’t something I felt passionate enough to want to pursue.” However, this experience “forced me to rethink what I wanted to do, and I decided to focus more on chemical engineering.”