 Alright. Hi, can you please introduce yourself? Yeah, my name is Salarice. I'm a third year undergrad at New Mexico Highlands University. I'm a junior in the biology department. Okay, so we have some questions for you today. And the first is, how is your experience with STEM at? My experience with STEM at. If I could describe it, I'd say it is like a logistic curve. It's one of those curves that just takes off and just explodes. And you have like, it just keeps going up and up and, you know, it doesn't level out. I had a lot of fun to start off really fun with that training and the first week. And then when I actually went to the place of my internship, I had even more fun, you know. So I just kept going up and up and escalating. Awesome. So why did you choose to apply for STEM at the very beginning? I like science, of course. I like research. And this was an opportunity for me to do research and actually something that wasn't related to my field. Something new, something that I hadn't worked before. I'd worked with bacteria before, but never algae, never this renewable resources stuff. And as a scientist, I like the fact that we're moving towards a world where renewable resources are becoming big. The fact that we can sit there and perform research in order to help people, in order to help the world become more eco-friendly is just fantastic to me. So I thought that was a really good fit for this. All right. So would you recommend other people applying for this program? I would most definitely recommend that other people apply for this program. This program was incredible. It was loads of fun. I got a lot more experience than I thought I would. I got more training than I thought I would. I benefited a lot from it. I grew, I made connections, professional and friendly alike. I met a lot of students that I would never have otherwise. And I think that it's an opportunity that you don't get often, and I would definitely recommend anybody to apply for it. All right. Anything else you want to add? Oh, it was just a lot of fun. I hope that if ever again I could apply for it, I wouldn't. Okay. Thanks, Saul. Wait, wait, wait. Tell us about your project you worked on. Oh, so the project I worked on was encapsulating living cells. So that was the use of the encapsulation process to take cells and immobilize them. And that way they continue to produce but without dividing. And it was a UNM with Dr. David Hansen. He was my PI and Dr. Elaine Ista, who was also my PI. I'm not sure if I should talk about the fact that I got to do more research than that. Yeah. You know, because it wasn't a... I originally started doing the encapsulation process, but later did I find out that it was just a method. It was just a small part of what I would be doing. I would be doing so much more. And that was just one thing that I'd be using continuously. I thought that was going to be my whole research experience when actually it was just a tool, a tool for me to do more research than I ever thought I would. I ended up working with fuel cells and creating biological, self-sustainable fuel cells where we can get energy from in the form of electrons and electricity. So I think that the program, that particular one I work with is something that fit me very well and something that I enjoyed a lot. Tell us about where you lived during your internship. I lived during my internship at the UNM campus in the dorms there. I shared the room with another student that was also in an internship, a separate program, and two students that went there. It was a lot of fun meeting new people. It's always interesting to see the different kinds of people that you meet and you'll actually be able to talk to and live with. Thank you.