I really enjoyed Social Mobility VTP. The detailed feedback and willingness to share knowledge made this a one of a kind learning experience. It was also my first exposure to R! I loved getting a firsthand glance into meaningful work through the Opportunity Atlas; the integration of R made me appreciate the wide applications of coding. This was a valuable opportunity—thank you again!

I had a great experience with the Milrd’s Metagenomics Virtual Training Project. The context of the project was highly interesting and relevant, and as I had little experience with bioinformatics, Linux/Bash or R, it was easy to follow and rewarding. I learnt a lot about a research domain I was completely unfamiliar with. I’m excited to apply the skills I learned to other areas of biomedical research in the future.

I thoroughly enjoyed my experience working with Milrd! Despite my limited prior experience with R and bioinformatics in general, their mentors and resources were there every step of the way to help me fully understand each command, so I knew exactly what I was doing. After completing the project, I even got to be an assistant mentor for a cohort with college students working on the same project I did, which actually taught me even more about the topics. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to participate in this project!

Milrd gave me real world experience working with bioinformatic tools which allowed me to make an informed decision to pursue the field for my graduate degree! I believe projects such as the metagenomics VTP project can give insight into how powerful these tools can be for all kinds of research.

They were very supportive and helpful along the way, making it a program that I would even recommend to people who have had no previous experience doing this kind of work.

The over all structure of the virtual training project was great, the staff was very supportive and knowledgeable along the way and provided answer to the smallest questions I had. Overall, I would recommend the program!!

I had a great time completing Milrd’s Social Mobility Virtual Training Project. I learned how to look at a broad collection of data, understand the contents and use programming to describe trends within it. It was the first time I was exposed to programming and the R language…I loved it and I can’t wait to do more work using these tools. It was also cool to learn about economics research, which I didn’t have previous experience in. I’m excited to complete more projects with Milrd.

I participated in the Single-cell Transcriptomics + Habenula Neuron Characterization VTP, and found it to be a wonderful supplement to my high school STEM curriculum.

My favorite part of the course was being surrounded by people who were eager to learn, and who were much more experienced than I! It certainly made for a busy week, but it was a great way to learn; I found that the wide variety of resources I had to work with provided the right amount of scaffolding and opportunity for independent thinking considering it was my first time working with R and bioinformatics software libraries.

Seeing others’ questions and results, and being able to troubleshoot and get feedback from the mentors through a combination of the AI platform, asynchronous group channel and zoom cohort meetings resulted in a deeper understanding of single-cell RNA-sequencing analysis and was a rewarding experience.

I thought the project was really informative, and it was really helpful to get help on issues I ran into as quickly as I did!