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Rio Grande Valley Internship Reflection

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Last summer I got the chance to attend the Rio Grande Valley Summer Science Internship where only about ten students got selected from hundreds that applied. This internship required me to make a presentation on how we can improve lives of Hispanic men here in the Rio Grande Valley. My presentation was on obesity and type two diabetes, which is relatively what we, Hispanics get often. With the help of my mentor we established a survey to study what men think we can do to better our health conditions and reflected on their history and what they wish could have known to prevent what they have now or are in risk of. I helped this internship get ideas on what they should do to their current organization and how to approach young people like me
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