My Internship Project

Here are some of the images that we learned to generate to give to the kids who participate in PING. Our project was to find the best views and make sure that you wouldnt be able to compare two pictures. We wrote up the protocol on the best ways to show the images, and the views that would be the most interesting to the kids.

I made a meaningful contribution to my workplace by working together with the other interns to establish the best angles for brain images to give to children. Dr. Jernigan (my mentor) didn’t want the kids to be able to compare their brains to one another, in case there were any differences since everyone’s brain is a little bit different. We made sure that each of the angles was different and unique so that the images could not be compared to one another. The protocol we established is going to be used throughout the study and the images are going to be given to all of the participants. They only have two years to hire people, get the project started, conduct the research and get it done. Since everyone here is working to get the project started up, we worked on something that was one of those minor details that will have a lasting effect on the project. Our project is meaningful to the outside world because of all of the children participating. Due to what we worked on to make every picture unique and different, kids will have a cool and one of a kind souvenir of their brain.