With a new partner, IMOD, PEAQS undergraduates find themselves with access to an even larger community of scientists with new technical and professional skills to learn. A major goal of this first year of the partnership was to give the students as many opportunities as possible to meet with this new community and learn their science and professional skills.

These opportunities included a workshop at FLC where IMOD faculty presented their work and attended student posters. Additionally, students shadowed in IMOD labs over their spring break. This was a perfect opportunity to get hands on experience in IMOD research and get to meet the IMOD community where they work.

Finally, this upcoming summer, students will get hand on with battery science during a special workshop developed just for them by IMOD graduate students and have the opportunity toattend IMOD’s OMS^3 technical and professional training course.