Report on Practicum Projects 2008

Michael Evans, Isaac Carruthers, Mark Glucksman-Glaser, Tina Bui, Hannah Gerlach
Evan Clarke
Mokshya Sharma

Michael Evans, Isaac Carruthers, Mark Glucksman-Glaser, Tina Bui, Hannah Gerlach
Email address: mevans@umd.edu, mgglaser@umd.edu, hgerlach@umd.edu, icarruth@umd.edu, aqbui@umd.edu
Affiliation Science, Discover and the Universe.
Title of Project: Housing Website

Decscription of Project: The group set up a website that formatted itself so that it was easier for students to get matched with a roommate more to their liking.

What were the main benefits you received from doing the project?: Some benefits were that they were able to learn how to manage a website better. They gained more knowledge ofthe world wide web. They also learned a lot about how to improve housing matches on the campus.

What were the main pitfalls or obstacles during the development and/or undertaking of the project?: At times the project became tedious as their was not much variety as far as setting up the website went. The logistics of the project became boring at some points.

Evan Clarke
Email address: Edc603@umd.edu
Affiliation Earth, Life and Time Scholar and Biology major.
Title of Project: Investigating Research Projects: Fibonacci Numbers of Ray Floret Count and Cycad Shoot Apical Meristums

Decscription of Project: Extracted certain parts of the plants to figure out if the fibonacci sequence matched up with the flowers' pedals and DNA.

What were the main benefits you received from doing the project?: The project was very interesting. He said that he learned a lot about the Fibonacci sequence and also found that working with plants was very interesting.

What were the main pitfalls or obstacles during the development and/or undertaking of the project?: The library research was boring and at times painful. At first he did not know how to do any of the experiments that he was going to do so he had to learn it all on his own.

Mokshya Sharma
Email address: msharma@umd.edu
Affiliation Earth, Life, and Time scholar, Neuroscience and Biology major.
Title of Project: Clinical Experience at the University Health Center

Decscription of Project: She worked at the University Health Center for a period of time.

What were the main benefits you received from doing the project?: She learned a lot about medicine and the fields that she is interested in going into. It was a very helpful experience especially for later in life when she is looking for a career.

What were the main pitfalls or obstacles during the development and/or undertaking of the project?: At first working at the health center was confusing as she was not quite sure what she was doing.

Last modified: 12 May 2008