Individual Meeting & "Ideas" On My Mind

                I met with Amanda Chapman last week. I believe she is the director of the S-STEM Scholars program, and I was later directed to the lab staff for a brief interview in the lab department of the DB building. Amanda and I talked a bit about my personal life and goals. She shared some of her experiences and gave some insight of other scholarships later in the future based on my ethnicity. Moreover, the lab staff or lab research advisors were a cool group to be around for their humor attitude. I look forward to working with them because they made me feel real comfortable with the interview situation.

I’m currently struggling with the classes I piled up on me this semester. On the other hand, I look forward to the new experience with the STEM program that require some time from my part and a little bit of critical thinking. I, also, took a look at the “Internship Ideas” of the S-STEM Mentorship Blog. I’m still in the brainstorming process of gaining an idea for my project. Furthermore, I left a list of some particular ideas that came to mind below.

• The growth of bacteria or some microscopic threat from fiddling with your mouth by your fingers, chewing on objects like pens, pencils, etc., or chewing of nails.

• What are some of the crucial life conditions of a plant? For example, how much CO₂, Light, and other conditions do a plant need to survive on to live.

• What is the rate of growth for microbes and their interaction between human skins? For example, we as humans touch keyboards, phones, ipods, classroom desks, and other objects of everyday life. The body is a remarkable defense mechanism, so how fast is microbes on the body’s first line of defense growing or spreading.

      I would like to work with Amoeba. The link below show the eating of Amoeba

• Amoeba Eating 1
• Amoeba Eating 2
• Amoeba Eating 3