 Hi, my name is Saul Ruiz. I am a senior at New Mexico Highlands University in the biology department. And this summer I got the possibility of doing a new Mexico EPSCORE summer internship, which was the encapsulation of algae. EPSCORE has opened so many doors for me. It's helped me so much. It's sponsored me. It's taken me further than I thought I could ever be. It's helped me so much that it really shows me that there is help for people and that somebody does care about researchers and undergraduates. It's really been a life-changing experience for me. So what did you think about SACNAS? Thanks to EPSCORE I was able to go to SACNAS, which is this amazing convention, and really present the research I was able to do over summer. It really was incredible and it helped me become a better scientist and really be involved in what I was doing. Okay, so what happened at the end of SACNAS? At the end of the 2014 SACNAS I received an award in biology for a presentation that I had performed on the research that I did with EPSCORE over summer. So how do you feel? I feel great. It's awesome.