Office of Technology Transitions: Technology Commercialization Internship Informational Webinar

thank you again everyone for joining we're going to get started here in a few minutes but I just wanted to go over a few housekeepings to get started if you're having audio issues please check your audio settings you also have the option to switch to phone audio or if you're using the browser version of Zoom you can try a different browser if you're still having issues with audio please chat with the webinar host and I will do my best to assist you if you have questions for our presenters throughout the presentation you can type them in the Q a panel from your toolbar we will have q a at the end of the presentation and we'll do our best to answer as many questions as time allows so with that I will go ahead and introduce our speaker who is Hera hamidi and she will kick off the webinar thanks Katie um so hi everyone I believe there's probably some of me some people dribbling in um we did have a webinar yesterday so in case you're a double um attendee it's going to be pretty much the same thing except the swimming at panels um well uh like Katie had introduced me earlier my name is Harry hamidi I'm actually the program coordinator for this internship um my email will be listed at the very end of the last slide of this presentation um so just to get started okay um we're gonna start with welcome and program overview schedule and Logistics of the program and then we're going to go and hear from our wonderful panelists or past interns from this program um and then we'll have a we'll open it up for the Q a and there is a q a function on Zoom um so you guys can ask questions there so I wanted to start off with what is commercialization um I believe a lot of people when they first started this internship historically they didn't know what commercialization was and so I thought it would be important to let everyone know before you apply what commercialization really means so commercialization is defined as the process of bringing an idea to market the idea of this internship is to help interns put them in a in a position to help the doe natural Labs bring a project of technology to Market and there's a lot of steps that you will learn about here soon um to get there but essentially the end goal is commercial viability what point is having any sort of Technology if it's on the hands of consumers so that's really what uh this internship is all about um if you're not familiar with the office of Technology transitions um here's an office overview who are we and what do we do so um Ott's Mission or not such a phone transitions um our mission is to expand the commercial impact of the research Investments of the department so Congress gives us a lot of money and then we give that money to the labs and those in the labs start creating and commercializing technology so um the commercial impact meaning like I said earlier um what uses any technology if you're not actually using it in your day-to-day life so Ott oversees the delivery of Dov strategic goals for technology commercialization and streamlines access to Davies National Labs to Foster Partnerships with the private sector to move solutions to Market so in this internship you will have the opportunity to conduct some customer Discovery and potentially talk to some industry Partners um and that is something that we will hopefully hear from our panelists about in a second so how do we actually like do that as a program as an office so we have a bunch of programs and at the very end of the list is this internship program this internship program really is impactful some of the intern projects um led to you know startups working together and then even killing a project because it just wasn't commercially viable and that was all thanks to the interns that kind of discovered that commercial viability um you hear some leadership in the office I wanted to point out uh Dr Vanessa Chan this internship's actually um she's her basically baby she's the one who spearheaded this it really means water so you will be hearing from her um throughout the summer um she will pop in to see how you guys are doing but she's a really great person to have in your network and also chat with so she's abiding political appointee so it's kind of a big deal um then we have Mary abada our chief of staff and then Marcos uh Harsha he is actually a paternity leave so you will be able to hear from him but from the other two you will throughout the summer now down to what you guys are really here for the internship itself so if you didn't know already this is in a webinar for the technology commercialization internship so some of the program staff um we actually have Edward Rios who's going to be kind of the head fed um on the internship you will be hearing from him as well he is really great to work with really knowledgeable has tons of experience in the private sector and then we actually transitioned into the public sector and now works on hydrogen projects and also University Partnerships and then we also have uh Matt O'Ryan he's actually on this call right now so um you can hear from him if you have any questions for him directly he's a program analyst and he's here to support the program so um throughout the summer if you're not hearing from me you'll probably be hearing from it and then there's me so um like I said earlier my name is Tara hamidi um I was part of the inaugural cohort of this program so the very first uh class of interns and that was back in 2021 I'm studying Engineering Management at Wichita State University so I am just like you guys I understand that what college is like and um don't be afraid to communicate with me for taking classes or you know something comes up um throughout the summer I'm here to help and you will be hearing from me a lot um maybe even um too much but better to over communicate than under communicate so a little program overview um this program offers undergraduate students so emphasis on undergraduate this program is for undergraduate students only um offers them the opportunity to participate in programs projects and activities at DAV headquarters National Laboratories and other Ott approved facilities it trains the next generation of entrepreneurs innovating at the intersection of technology and business as well as recruits talent for doe National Labs to advance commercialization so I myself am a product of this internship I now run the internship after being a part of the internship and this is staying I'm starting to assist on other programs as well within the office so this really is a good pipeline for if you want another internship I actually did get continue on with my lab after I was and it turned so I interned with Berkeley National Laboratory um and that was an amazing experience and led to a bunch of other opportunities so definitely taking advantage of the um of the networking that you can do here and then it provides intensive training for for interns to understand and Advance Innovative Technologies and field spending machine learning artificial intelligence Computing data science biofuels energy materials and more so your projects this summer are going to be um really climate focused I made sure to make that a point um this summer to really filter through and get the labs involved in the decision-making process so you will be interviewed by the labs and we will talk about that a little later so on the deliverables for the interns so you have weekly energy at core homework um so you will be meeting with your instructors and um again we'll talk about this I believe the next two slides uh work as a signed by the lab and individual feasibility study in an individual presentation there's an aspect by that because there's an added group project that we are still figuring out logistics for but we will get to that in a second as well oops foreign includes individual lab projects that pair interns with a National Lab mentor and then you will have a summer group project like I mentioned earlier an 11-week intensive energy effort based talk to your training guest speaker series or Bible presentations to Ott management and lab staff so you will be traveling at the end of the summer to present your projects um at a National Lab which is to be decided which national lab that will be okay so the energy Echo curriculum so the energy I core um the goal of this program it's something that um the office of Technology transitions has been doing for a while and it's normally for startups um to kind of train themselves their startups are usually filled with a bunch of stem um stem Maniacs essentially is what I like to call them and you get to train them to kind of think in business speak so they'll be learning stuff like the business model canvas and customer Discovery and Market sizing all of these are skills that are valuable to kind of stem entrepreneurs and you'll be basically doing a about 10 crash course of that entire program which normally takes two months actually and in order to do that you'll have two instructors Max screen and Alice nipples um they're both phenomenal instructors they love working students and this year we actually got more of their time for the summer so we really have been working on improving the program and the panelists can talk to you a little bit more about what it was like working with them but essentially they both are experts in the field and they have a plethora of knowledge and that they really love working on projects like this so this is what your week would look like this is um kind of an overview for me but you're not gonna have to attend everything in this um in this schedule so we're going to start with the weekly update that's going to be in a uh just a way for me to give you guys announcements updates um if you guys have any questions please feel free to ask them during that hour then after that you will be watching an energy expert video with all the content and then following that you will be separated into pods to have pod a through e and you will each be working with a different student every two weeks because another piece of feedback for the panelists here um is that you will be able to interact with other interns you won't be just stuck in one pod um and I think as an intern myself I do see value in interacting with everyone in my program so you will have to pay attention to what popular assigned that week next thing um program coordinator office hours I will have office hours um you're required to meet with me once a week so you don't have to meet with me for you know the uh eight hours are realistic here but just once a week just so I can check in and see how you're doing see how things with your lab are going things like that um Alice and Max will have an office hour as well so you can it's all going to be on Zoom by the way so you do need to have a laptop with a functioning microphone and internet access and webcam and you need to drop into one of these office hours so that you can get the help you need talk about your project um the first week will probably be a little light but then after that we go straight into um into the energize yourself professional development session so this is a virtual internship with opportunities throughout the summer to go in person um to your lab site um so you will have the opportunity um to fly out to your lab and visit your you know the scientists see the actual technology that you're working with um and maybe you can plan it to um see you know if your Pi is going to a um conference in a city that that week then they would buy you out and you can go experience that as well so that is built into this program um I guess speaker series like I mentioned earlier great networking opportunities for you guys to expand your networks and also hear from some unique uh people that came out of doe um and then the group project the group project is in efforts to um give you guys an opportunity to work with each other in addition to that you will have to present so you'll be presenting two different presentations at the end of summer event which will you'll see pictures from here in a second um and then on Fridays your homework will be due if you notice there is a bunch of intern hours on the slide and all of this is based off of your schedule so because the nature of the internship is virtual you have to not only work around my schedule because you will have mandatory meetings with me you also have to work around your lab uh point of contacts schedule but you also need to be making time for customer Discovery interviews um meeting with Alice and Max of meeting with your group so you don't have to meet on Thursdays for your group but if you know Tuesday works better for you and your group then you can meet on Tuesday there's a lot of time management skills here that you need to take into account so really work on that that's really entitled his internship um and we do you know we will work with you because I understand summer classes are a thing however this internship should be your first priority and you are required to work 40 hours so the end of summer presentations and events this is a couple of pictures from um last summer we went to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to present our projects we actually have I believe if I'm not sure if Carly is on the line or not but um Harley was our first six winner and then uh Danny who is on the line here was our third place she's really hear from them too as well um but overall I love the panelists if you have any questions about the end of Summer Event I will let them answer them so feel free to drop those questions in the Q a and now we'll move on to the panelists unit so before we start uh I would like to give the panelists an opportunity to introduce themselves their name and possibly where they went to school and what they're studying and what they're doing right now that who would like to start I can start now hi everybody uh my name is Alfredo Valdez I was as she mentioned uh part of the internship last summer I had a great time I'm currently living in New Mexico I went to the University of New Mexico right next to Sandia Laboratories um so that's why one of the reasons why I was really interested in this program um Auto fighting um but yeah I think the great the the program is really good especially if you're thinking about being an entrepreneur if you get excited about technology and you want to see kind of what bring an idea from like the ground up would look like um without having an idea yet right but having that experience and getting those skills done so if you ever want to get an idea or get an idea for a business or want to start your own startup or your own company uh there's an amazing opportunity Danny thanks Alfredo uh Demi hey y'all my name is Danny uh as Tara mentioned and Alfredo I participated in this internship last summer I was the Brookhaven National Lab intern and I got to work with so many amazing people and I am finishing up my physics training at Binghamton University and I'm currently interviewing with a couple different National Labs which I'll probably be working with in the coming years as a full-time so this internship really did uh push me to those places and I think if you want to further your career in any way whatsoever this internship is going to be really good for you I had no idea what this internship was I was tricked into thinking that it was a research internship and then we ended up working with entrepreneurship and now I'm going to be pursuing technology transitions for the rest of my career so it really was life-altering for me David um hello everyone uh yeah my name is David Zeal I'm a junior right now I go to the University of South Carolina I study mechanical engineering right now I'm actually on an exchange semester in Utah uh but that's okay just a little colder um I really enjoyed the program as well I think I got to learn a lot through interacting with people at Sandia and it was really valuable for me to have the mentorship of actual research uh people like in National Laboratories and kind of help you decide which way you might want to go business track versus research track or potentially combine both of them which the office of Technology transitions is Stellar at doing so yeah awesome something stupid okay so first question for you guys what was your project Last Summer Alfredo you want to take it from the top again sure yeah um so my project was well I just start with my major which is um in management information systems and my project was an algorithm that helped uh determine the fuel conditions for wildfires and then from that um it could predict the scope of this the fire and the projected uh path it would take um so yeah I'll let you go about okay yes I was working on a CCT uh radiation detector which is essentially a little piece of semiconductive material that takes any radiation and ends up putting it into an electrical signal so you get an output yeah and I was working on a new soft magnetic material that had been developed uh before it was impossible to actually Center the material but then a researcher by the name of Dr Todd Monson at Sandia developed this material and we were looking at different ways that the materials properties and magnetic properties of this specific uh compound could help in green energy areas such as electric motors and also in high energy Electrical Power Systems okay next question how much technical knowledge do you think you needed to be successful in this internship how much did you have to learn on your own feel free to start with you again um I really didn't have a lot of technical knowledge to be honest uh answering in um but I was lucky I had a great uh personal contact there uh Kyle Gwen and the actual team of working in the project they kind of welcomed me in um and as far as how much did I learn on my own now that was really some I can't speak for everybody but I really took that on because it was something that really interested me and I'll just find myself looking at stuff like that and um some of the newsletters I'm also a part of like emerging technologists stuff like that um I would see something and I would just click in my mind and I'll just read more I was like trying to connect dots on um how to supply it to like a project like this and and just things like that so I I went kind of deep into Rabbit Hole sometimes on my own um but I also had great contacts there um because they gave me contacts for uh sendia's multiple offices so not just a team they gave me um a direct referral to um the intellectual properties office there so they kind of gave us a presentation and then they'll say if you if you always want to do that just um here's my email and everything so um starting off you don't need a lot of knowledge but I just think you just have to be curious and be interested in what um what your project is yeah I I definitely agree with what Alfredo is saying my project was highly technical so having the classically trained physics background really did help in that area but this year with the different projects the labs are going to be interviewing you so if you have any uh scientific training you'll probably end up with a project that you can handle in that sense the one thing you need to be willing to try in this uh internship is to reach out to other people that can help you so you need to be willing to communicate and learn new things because it it goes really fast you need to learn your project and then you need to be able to explain it in a way that people who don't have your background can learn and on that note I'm actually going to drop my email in the chat and David and Alfredo will probably do so as well if you need any help at any point in the summer we would be happy to help even if you don't take the internship reach out to us we are happy to give advice awesome thanks Jamie you know David um yeah just building off of what Alfredo and Danny already specified uh technical knowledge is actually pretty important in this internship um because in order to properly analyze if a technology should be transitioned or not you have to actually understand the technology landscape that it's going into and you also have to understand what the particular advantages or markets you might want to go into with that technology are but it's not like impossible to learn that by any stretch of the imagination I came into a field working with the technology that I was not familiar with but back to what Danny said I really spoke with the principal investigator at Sandia on the technology a lot to get me up to speed on the on the tech and also read some Journal articles in the area which really kind of helped me understand everything and by even considering that like it it's so much more efficient to talk to actually the person who's like his last couple of years of study have been dedicated to this so I would just emphasize that again that learning will be accelerated through actually talking to people and it will help the summer go in a very positive way awesome thank you so much David all right next five how does internship help you academically enter professionally so far I'm afraid if you like to start off um academically it was this was my last scenario when I did it so I just graduated uh this past semester in the fall um so for me it was really um or like a Capstone project kind of felt more like a really excited capsule song which brought in together all the skills that was kind of learning but it was more you know theoretical to more no this is the real world this is how um you gotta evaluate more put more things into practice use your skills and kind of really sharpen all that uh professionally it's been great I had a uh a job here a job offer here after I graduated from a consultancy and we spoke a lot about this uh this internship because a lot of it is is uh the consultancy side is just finding out the needs how can technology fix those needs and um determining a problem how big is that problem I think one thing I encountered a lot during this internship was that you as you you take certain assumptions about what you think like this would be great for this field and then this will solve their problems and then once you start talking to them as as David mentioned it's like yeah it's a problem but it's not a big problem they don't want to take on a new technology or maybe they ask to be better suited for them to have them actually to adopt it so just solving the problem isn't um I guess the solution that that took me a while to get because it's it's just then the next thing is implementation how how they implement it do they even want to adopt this and do they want to is there something else that they think is better um so I guess just determining the severity of the problem and then how much are they willing to accept um a new technology as well sci-fi yeah so I think all you really need to hear from us is that all three of the current panelists Alfredo by the way oh Carly's here too Harley's going to end up working like at NASA or something like that she is she scares the rest of us but we are all we have standing job offers that we got because of the internship so you don't need to hear more than that either one of you yes I'll just add to what Danny said um it's been really key to like my professional new development I think this is really where I learned how to like professionally interact uh having conversations interacting with both bosses and people at different companies like across industry and that sort of thing um and I think academically that's really been powerful because it's given me a lot of experience from which I can gauge uh areas of interest that I might consider pursuing for graduate school or specific career tracks and then anything else if it's okay if you don't have anything accuracy oh I will just add that uh my mentor I'm Carly by the way uh sorry for joining right you could give it up my mentor after you're done with this question you wanted to do so we've answered what was your project last summer and like who you are and like what your major is and where you go to school yeah yeah totally um yeah but the answer to this question I already did add that my mentor um was great about connecting me to people who were in within my lab in the field that I wanted to work in even though him specifically wasn't like the exact filler I wanted to work in um who connected me to a lot of human factors people at Sandia I'm a human factors engineering major and those connections were like invaluable like they were giving me I meant I ended up meeting with like three people one of them was like giving me like in my throw up classes to take um where to work like just like General career advice um and then they did end up uh sort of extending an offer but I can move to Albuquerque which is why that didn't end up working out um but yeah and then to introduce myself uh I'm Carly I'm a sophomore I'm majoring in community factors engineering at Tufts University in Boston and my project was called customer Discovery leading to a domestic source of rare earth metals so basically my lab came up with a new method to extract rare metals from a waste product which is coal ash which is a byproduct full combustion and my project was like interviewing utility companies mostly as well as like other stakeholders to figure out if this process would be useful if there's anything I missed awesome thanks fairly thanks for joining um all right next question what was your day-to-day experience like um um I'll start uh mice is a little different from everybody's because day-to-day um I had meetings with my POC at the labs my personal contact at the last we had a meeting kind of stand feed them every day um so we did we took more of an agile methodology so we just kind of talked about what you did yesterday what are you planning to do today and then if you need any help for today and count just did that every day some sense of quick five minute meeting to um sometimes went up to an hour depending if like we're really stuck or where we were or if we couldn't reach people then work through that um and then just we would work on homework uh have the certain days we'll have the meetings with either Atlas or another instructors those were great um I think my advice for those would become prepared because sometimes well a lot of times I found that you really have a great idea that you think and then you know something something just falls off and she's like well what if this happens I remember having those uh situations especially with Alice like oh I didn't even think about that um so just kind of think through your way through it um and then also the customer Discovery would be part of the day and day so we try to contact somebody in the the industry that you think the technology will fit in and see just ask questions like um how do you do things now to some if some new technology would solve your problems is that a problem how big of a problem you think that is and you just have a conversation with them most of the time I wasn't I'll just ask one questions and we'll just go into like a certain part of it on it was more of conversation uh more so than an interview um I found that the best way to uh gather more information on whether true uh what they're really looking for and uh what they're really interested into um so yeah that was most the day-to-day was just going to meetings and then um I would say 50 50 of having meetings doing some interviews and then your alone time of go into the homework and just thinking the stuff out and doing your own research yeah so there's a lot a lot to do based on week to week they're going to be constants you'll always have your energy I core video you'll always be meeting with one of your energy I core instructors be that Max or Alice or whoever else they bring in maybe Sally one day you'll always be meeting with her at least once a week but a vast majority of my day was spent researching the product in the beginning and then LinkedIn stalking people and cold calling and cold emailing people in the industry later and I some days would just be doing that until like 10 pm which you do not have to do I went a little bit insane but a lot of it is just going to be you trying and failing to get into contact with people that are out in the industry and don't underestimate the power of LinkedIn and the power of maybe us we could probably get you a few interviews as well especially Hara ashikan about if she decides to sleep on her own but yeah that's it's going to be different and you're going to be flexible but it's it's going to be cool hard work yeah I don't have much to add other than what the preceding people said but um yeah it just kind of related to that last bit Danny shared like it it is what you make out of it so like your day-to-day experience either you could you know just do your energy I core homework meet with people at the lab and like wrap it up for the day and do the bare minimum or you could really actually see like this is something that I can get a lot of value out of and maybe it would benefit me to actually invest some some of my time in it and try to learn more about this area and so I really want to just present that idea that the opportunity is what you make of it and um for these panelists who are on the discussion panel I think we all really valued that we invested heavily into it so I would encourage you to consider that I completely agree sorry but you guys hear me okay so bad that like not only will you get more out of it but I think one of the most important skills I've learned is like how to structure my day-to-day because you have that freedom like I learned how to manage myself figuring out like what am I going to do to speak like what are my goals like writing that out you know one of my goals for today like they're kind of important from that and I think that you learn a lot about how to manage a project because you basically managing your own project either that whatever thank you um last question any wise words of advice for prospective interns I'll start I think this it's a lot um I think just keep in mind it's a project and it's a process and you don't have to have it all figured out um you go to the project you take some assumptions and sometimes you can be wrong and that's okay it's sometimes you have to go backwards and like last week we went over maybe key Partnerships and then this week you go something else I'm like oh well those key Partnerships from last week maybe they wouldn't fit for the new industry I'm looking at or something like that it's okay to go back a little bit and say like um okay this is a better fit this is better solution and as you start figuring out everything will go come into place but when you start first starting going out you probably don't know the technology so it's a huge learning curve First Learning technology also learning the um the business model canvas and then talking to Industry so a lot of assumptions you just take in are going to be shattered and you gotta kind of start from Ground Zero I'm like oh that's not the way to do it this uh but as you go through everything starts sliding and fitting into place so my advice would be like if you just feel a little overwhelmed the first week the second week just push through it's all fallen and it's definitely a great experience to get through all that in a real world scenario yeah I totally agree with what Alfredo said and I think I would sub that up as being get comfortable with being independent you're going to have to make some of your own decisions and because this is probably your first opportunity to do that on a scale where your final deliverable is going to be impacted by that you're going to make mistakes like you said and it's going to be fine you're going to learn a lot you're going to be a different person by the end and the other thing which is more specific when you're doing cold calling in LinkedIn stalking for your customer discovery which for anybody who doesn't know that's literally just you go out into industry and you try to talk to people who are relevant to your product to see whether or not it's actually going to fit into the market that's already there when you're doing that leverage your position as a student they want to help you if you talk about yourself hey I really want to learn from you I have been following your career I've seen these things that you've done leverage that and also keep it quick and concise they don't want to read a paragraph for you if you do the this on LinkedIn you're only going to be allowed a sentence or two so get good at your written elevator pitch and even your word elevator pitch so yeah um uh from me my connections at the lab were really important probably the most important thing for me during the internship um So based off of that I would suggest meet with the principal investigator for your technology early and try to meet with them as needed through the semester because in order for you to know the market research you have to be conducting like which markets you should go into you need to understand the technology at like a fundamental level so talk to your pis oh they're so helpful and so kind and willing to talk about it and then secondly talk to the licensing executive that you've been paired up with at your lab don't just say okay we're going to meet one time a week and be happy with that like if questions arise reach out to them because these are people that for their lives living and what they have dedicated their work to are doing this they're taking patents from the lab and trying to move them into American industry so they're very familiar with all the challenges that we're facing and it's much uh better to have someone that has um gone through that before and give some guidance and so you can try to learn the lessons the easy way and save time which can be valuable elsewhere in the internship rather than learn it the hard way and um perhaps not get the opportunity to do everything you would like to and some Thanksgiving and Harley uh yeah I would just saying start customer Discovery early because you will learn more so much more for the happiness seller for even like five minutes than you will uh hours of like researching online like it's just there's no substitute for talking to someone uh like yes you do need a baseline level of knowledge before you start talking to someone um you know and that you can get from like doing research online and stuff like that but I think I thought that that Baseline was much higher than it actually was like I thought I needed to do a lot of research on my own before I started talking to someone because I was afraid of like asking a stupid question or something like that um so I would suggest like you know getting that Baseline level but then going right into talking to people awesome so now I will open it up to this is my email by the way and then um when we send this uh slide deck out this is a link to the website so you can see where the application is and all the information um about like how much you're getting paid etc etc um it's all there um but applications are due February 15th um we are now open for questions let's see somebody said asks I know internship positions can be very competitive with that being said how can we stand out during the selection process so I'm actually going to opens up the panelists because I you guys all made it the cut so what do you guys think helped you stand out during me um selection process I want to throw the mic really quick to Carly because she is an interesting way of getting into the program uh so I think she should start this one Carly was the the last intern to get chosen and it's because she has a very important message to tell thank you um let's see actually there's more of a question for hair what what happened is I didn't properly convey my interest in energy and then they were like this is the Department of energy and I was like yeah I know I'm interested um yeah um oh man I think I remember Harry you said like you guys all have something that you're really passionate about like regardless of whether it's like directly related but I think that that maybe is what what made us all Stand Out is like there's just something that we're really interested in um for me it's like I was thinking like the intersection I don't know a new for other people but yeah um so I would say a way to make yourself stand out during the selection process um is you should really I think to pay you back off what Carly said show what you're passionate about um and show genuine interest because one thing that you should take away from your panelists here is that um you they didn't know what project they were going to be paired with the difference between last summer and this summer is that the labs will actually be interviewing um people so if somebody from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is emailing you maybe you should do what Danny does and Linkedin soft them and be like okay this is what they work on this is what type of Technology transfer so it's like what area they're focusing in and not on um there are tons of ways to kind of um I guess just research online for what lab you will be interviewing with because you there could be potentially multiple Labs interested in hiring you so um if you get like three different Labs like Florence Berkeley Argonne and I don't know Sandia make sure you look those labs up where are they located um what projects are they going to be working on um each one of these Labs has some sort of really cool facility so one talking point in your interview could be oh I saw that there was you know this particle accelerator at your lab can you tell me a little bit more about that I was really interested in learning about that do things like that show genuine interest because that genuine interest is going to carry you a long way and you should keep that up throughout your entire internship because they will help you if you show genuine interest in what they're doing um Alfredo and David did you have anything to add to that I'm pretty good with what's been said no yeah I think that covered it okay somebody asked do you know if the potential project s are for this year this year yes and no um but that is going to be up to your Labs so that is going to be something that you'll have to discuss with them if you are selected I'll say off of that I noticedia has on their website I don't have the link but they have something where they post most of their projects they're obviously not classified but projects they're working on and stuff like that um and last year I was able to pick my own project um just because who I was supposed to be signed up with um ended up leaving the company I think to do a startup and then I was fortunate enough to pick my project and my POC was like kind of gave me a list and we're talking talked about a major my concentration was what was I interested in um so now that you can pick your projects or you can start thinking about those I would say just be curious and be aware of like what interests you what doesn't interest you um and what what kind of field you kind of more leaning to stuff like that would help some um some of the things because these slabs are working on a lot of projects at once so if if you can kind of narrow down I want to be about this field doing these things working on sustainability working on new energy forms something like that if you something Clicks in their mind and be like oh you know what I do know something because that's exactly what happened to me I was like kind of thing about Ai and stuff like that I was like oh we're actually working on machine learning model to for wildfires and that's kind of how I got hooked up with my project so um some a lot of those things are just gonna be some trigger that triggers your interviewer or whoever you're picking on it's like we have a project that that might fit you yeah all right if there aren't any other questions my email is on the screen um I will sit back for the next 13 minutes and um but yeah but thank you so much for to our panelists for coming and talking um and good luck in all your future endeavors um I really hope if you guys need any help of course reach out um we're definitely still here to help so thank you guys thank you Travis Danny I did put your name out there I'm actually curious to see if Shelly Curtis had reached out or introduced you to someone at all a lab for a technology transfer position recently oh it wasn't Shelley uh it was a contact that I got over the summer from Idaho National Lab that I'm looking at and then the position at the advanced light source at Berkeley this is the two that I'm looking at andrael's looking for a person too just so you know I'll add that to the list all right all right um I'll pop into class then okay bye see ya foreign I don't know if they are still present or not there are a few attendees still but it doesn't look like we have any other questions coming in do you think we should end yeah I think we can do that thank you so much for your help thank you

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