Introduction

• Name: Matthew Panechelli
• Year: Junior
  
• Major: BDIC-Evolutionary Biology and Science Education
  
• Hometown: Franklin, Ma
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• Why did you get involved in the internship?

I have always had a passion for Biology and this internship should fit my BDIC major very well, you could say the MAS is a perfect fit for me.

• What do you hope to get out of this class?

I hope to gain some technological/multimedia skills that I severely lack. I also hope to have some fun experiences when we visit local schools. Hopefully this class will lead to bigger things.

• What do you like to do for fun?

I'm open to almost anything, I'm a bit of sports nut, animal fanatic, movie buff, part time coach potato(anything on the discovery channel or natgeo) and would like to get outdoors more often by taking up hiking/camping.

• What do you want to do when you graduate college?

I'd like to teach but I'd also like to take part in some research in the evo-bio field. My BDIC major is designed to create an educational initiative with regard to science,biology, and evo-bio, so hopefully I'll have some interesting adventures in that regard.

• Any other fun facts about yourself?

My father's side of the family were and are farmers so cow tipping is not cool. I like mini-golf and sometimes I like golf when I'm not terrible at it. As a youth I used to spend every summer with my twin brother chest deep in the pond across the street from my house, digging up and catching whatever critters we could. I'm a closet nerd, the Land Before Time is quite possibly the best movie ever and it has inspired me to create an animated series of biolog learning videos for kids. I like to eat(you name it and I'll probably eat it), I like to go fishing, worked with 4-14 year old kids at a Daycare for roughly 5 years. Mitt Romney took my financial aid away from me when I had a 3.4 at Umass Dartmouth so I shoveled concrete for 4 years before regaining my independent student status. I like people but not pretentious ones. I'm obsessed with trying to answer some of the most interesting questions concerning life and the natural sciences, therefore I'm kind of a jack of all trades and master of none to some degree. Going green is going to be very interesting and I'd like to travel at some point( I want to make a list of the coolest things in the world to see and do and get after it).