STEM C^2 Research Summit on April 21st- EEG Team takes stage

We had the opportunity to showcase our research at our Bergen C^2 Research Summit. We had high schools, colleges, and universities come present their level of work. Even faced another EEG team during the summit. Look at the beauty that is our poster. Unbeknownst to everyone our research was incomplete. We had issues with analyzing our data in time for the conference but we were able to use GAD-7 survey as the main source of our analysis without the data from the readings to confirm our results. We still did amazing job on our presentation!!!!! I had the opportunity to glance over on one of the judges clipboard and saw we did extremely well but not enough to garner a top spot in the award ceremony. Also, I asked to present at a 4-day Neural Engineering Conference in Shanghai, China on May. IEEE EMBS (the electrical engineering society biomedical engineering chapter) thought what we had was quite interesting and that level of research is quite special at community college level. 

All of us with Pop Sivo.

Black & White's make everything much better.

Whoa!!! that plane looks so awesome. Photos by Moi. lol

My baby!!! A lot of work gone into the design, look, and perfect placement of everything. Visually its the best poster there not saying it because I made it of course. lol

Ladies of STEM!!! STEM Union President Kimberley, New STEM Union President Maryam, and New Student Government President Sibora. 

More angles of the STEM plane.

Fun time during the conference setting up and helping people unfamiliar with Bergen to their poster designation. 

My EEG girls Nikita and Agatha.

Nikita, Agatha, and Mahtab are enjoying the beauty of Bergen.

Jenny, Minjoo, and I are stress-free after presenting to the first judge. I guess now we can do this thing!!!

Presenting at Ramsey Middle School, Group Picture for Research Poster for Spring 2017, and newest Jack Kent Cook Scholar.

Dr. Di Lauro and I had the opportunity to attend and present at Ramsey's Middle School 7th and 8th science fair. We shown what Bergen had to offer in terms of research and variety of projects ranged from robotics to 3D printed caps. 

Dr. Di Lauro and I representing Bergen.

Team EEG Brainwaves!!!!! Group photo for our research poster. 

Alex serenading the women of EEG with his voice. 

Agatha and Cassie mid convo on burritos.

Nicolette feeling very angst at the moment.  

Dan is always the avid reader of things concerning Columbia University.

Carmel and Evans are mid converting to Hydroponics before I caught them in the act.

I see you Heineken!!!! (Yes!!! exact like the beer)

They made up their minds on ordering burritos.

Congratulations Daniela!!! Newest awardee of Jack Kent Cook Scholarship and has a $40,000 ticket to go anywhere she pleases.  

STEM takes Princeton!!!!

Sorry for the late updates!!! With Summer 1 started this past Monday we have the opportunity to show you (the readers) what we're been doing since our spring internship. STEM students and I had the opportunity to attend the American Association for Physics Teachers annual conference this past March. It was held at Princeton University and we had the pleasure in meeting speaker Dr. Kent Yagi post-doctorate student at Princeton. His presentation focused on Gravitational Waves which was quite fascinating.  

Princeton's Mascot, The Tigers!!!

Team Bergen!!!!

Had the opportunity to look at their Theoretical class rooms and labs with fellow STEM member Doucina.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!! 

Spring Break Internship 2017: Day 4

While, we didn't get the opportunity to go to the clinic on Friday due to a confusion. I did managed to get some of the formatting done for our research poster. I received the standard template everyone is using to represent our school from Bridge to Baccalaureate (B2B) Project Manager Dorothy Wright. Here at EEG Brainwaves we like to go off the beaten path and create something original like our past project leaders done for us. With our abstract completed and ready for submission, we turn our attention to getting the data recordings we have analyzed by an company called QEEG Pro who has agreed to help us with an recommendation from our mentor Jackie.  

This is our current meeting times for the Spring 2017 semester. I posted my availability so we have our readings done efficiently as possible.   

We are at the next phase of our research and will be working with a company is able to remove artifacts (random influences) in our data.

On the Friday March 17th I had the opportunity to go to Princeton University for a Physics Conference with other Physics professor from Bergen.

Spring Break Internship 2017: Day 3

With tomorrow being the last day of our Spring Break Internship we planned to meet with our mentor Jackie De Vries from the Crossroad Center. Next phase of our research will be collecting all the EEG readings to have them analyzed. Then, we're heading to the externship part of our research with Crossroad Centers in Ridgewood, NJ. After we speak to Jackie whose our liaison between international researchers and us. We'll be contacting researchers from the Netherlands who will do our Quantitative Analysis for no price at all due to our relationship with Jackie. Plus, they have equipment and software that's more sophisticated than our own. So, we had to take advantage of this amazing opportunity!!!  

                                                                   "Casual Wednesday"

                              Yariel and Erika staring intently when we're talking about our game plan.

When we're on break from our EEG readings to do mental telepathy with the Mind Flex Duel. 

                                              Nicolette betting Erika literally with her eyes closed.

 Erika is like, "Damn even with her eyes closed, but let me get my Organic Chem book out and I'll show her who's boss".

Spring Break Internship 2017: Day 2

With Day 2 underway both Erika and I went under wraps for our first EEG readings. Yariel and Carmel done their post readings on Monday and completed their part of our research. With the Nor'easter blizzard closing the school yesterday, we resumed as normal today.

 Dan and Nicolette research so intently for an answer to our Quantitative Analysis issues. They are waiting for a response from our mentor Jackie at Crossroad Center in Ridgewood, NJ.

Erika and I are very serious when doing our EEG. You can drop her in the pool with her eyes closed and her brainwaves will still be constant. She has a high level of an Anxiety but her EEG readings says otherwise. lol

A sample of our brainwaves when calibrating the BIOPAC equipment to read them properly.

A sample of our old poster which we're using for inspiration for the design of our new one. STEM C^2 is approaching soon and the abstract is due at the end of the month. We decided to keep two parts of this poster which includes the different types of brainwaves and EEG extraction method. Since, we didn't get the chance to use our OpenBCI equipment for our research, the process would be the same as our old research with Howard Gardener's.

Spring Break Internship 2017: Day 1

We're back again you guys!!!! Sorry for the long break since our last posting during the Winternship in January. This spring we're continuing what we started in doing research that focuses on Anxiety that uses 2 controls as the stimuli. Then, we're viewing the exposure from our both the pre and post EEG readings in conjunction with the GAD-7 self administering survey. Which we got the okay from the school's Psychology Department. 

Well, today is the first day of our Spring Break Internship and we have our new members Yariel and Carmel joining us.

Carmel is assembling our BIOPAC equipment because our OpenBCI wasn't working at the time we thought of our research project.

New member Yariel is assembling and doing Carmel readings solo for the first time.

I think it's necessary to be an active participant in your learning. I want my members to see the actual use of what we're doing. Hands-on experience is most important when you're doing research that requires many different skill sets. As, project leader I look forward to giving new members the tools I learned.