Yesterday, five new interns from Independence Junior College met to discuss the upcoming projects for their environmental internships working to learn about and improve water quality at shrimp farms in Belize.
Along with learning to test water quality and implement mitigation projects, they will be helping to test the Uni High Inventor's Club water quality apparatus. From left to right the group includes Natasha Bennett, Rennee Cadle, teacher and intern sponsor Abigail Parham, Shamika Logan and Lisa Guttierez. Also working with the project but not pictured here is Omar Sierra.
Thanks to Uni High, and the Lemelson Foundation for the use of the waterproof camera (held by teacher Abigail just over Renee's right shoulder). The interns will use that to document their progress and keep us all appraised of their successes.
All interns will begin work next week. We're prepped and ready to go!
Welcome to all the new interns! I'm very excited for the new designs to be implemented. Tomorrow, four of us will be implementing a belt design in a local creek for testing and we will upload pictures tomorrow of the design, so we can start talking about what adjustments will need to be made when you build it there. We also designed a harvester using a nail brush, but it needs some significant smoothing out before it can be used. More info tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to working with everyone!
-Elizabeth Allen
Hello again!
ReplyDeleteWell, I took some photos but I could not find my camera connector to download the photos. By Tuesday I will have access to a video camera so I will try to do that.
-Elizabeth
I am glad to be here... it's my first time doing such an intership.. it's a new experience for me and i am loooking foward to learn more.. today me and another intern came to Royal Mayan shrimp Farm and learn about the basic measures.. Mr. Timothy Smith and Mr.Maunuel Panagua served as our instructors...They showed us the ponds and the farm at large.They explain the purpose of each procedure that is undertaken.The biologist showed us how the testing of bacteria is done on the shrimp is done and other lab techniques..This is just our first day and looking foward to learn more...
ReplyDeletei will send pictures of what we did...
ReplyDeleteHey new interns, it's the old intern Wilbur here. Just want to say am so proud of you guys. I hope I get to work with you guys at least one time during your internship. It would be great to share ideas and experiences. With that said, remember, what we save today might just be what saves us tomorrow!!!!
ReplyDeleteWilbur did an excellent job as the first WWF intern for the shrimp farms.
ReplyDeleteLearn from his example!