Czech Center Museum Internship Blog By Julian Porra Parks I chose the Czech Center Museum internship because it seemed interesting. I find Slavic and by extension Czech culture very intriguing. I have been studying European history and I felt this is was a great opportunity for me. The Czech Center website: http://czechcentermuseumhouston.business.site/ “ The Czech Center Museum is dedicated to the exploration, preservation and furthering the public’s knowledge of Czech and Slavic culture and heritage. In Texas, there are an estimated one million people who are of Czech or Slovak descent.” More about the purpose of the center: https://www.czechcenter.org/about-1/ Saturday, November 4 th , 2017 – Finding the Czech Center internship I was offered an opportunity to go visit the Czech center by my internship coordinator. I contacted them immediately via e-mail and made an appointment. Tuesday, November 7 th , 2017 – Interview and tour Today I met wit...
I was interested in finding an internship at the Houston medical center because of my interest in biomedical engineering and my background as a volunteer in a laparoscopic/robotic research program at the medical center during my middle school years. During that project I was taught how to do actual surgery. I decided to contact Professor Ioannis Pavlidis at the Computational Physiology Lab at the University of Houston because he was one of the principle investigators of my middle school project at MITIE: Houston Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation & Education. Read more about the University of Houston Computational Physiology Lab: http://cpl.uh.edu Read more about Houston Institute for Technology, Innovation & Education MITIE: http://www.houstonmethodist.org/for-health-professionals/department-programs/mitie Professor Pavlidis helped me connect with my to-be boss, Professor Mark Garbey, who works at the Methodist Hospital, Center for Computational surger...