On the weekends, Lorren works as an intern at the Pittsburgh Zoo in the Elephant Research Program. She also plays the flute in her school band and studies cetaceans.
Lorren would like to become a marine biologist so she can help preserve whales and dolphins.
Many people have inspired and encouraged Lorren during the last year, including her sponsors, her advisors, her teachers, and her parents.
The decline in frog populations and the fact that frogs have been found with deformities concerns Lorren. She wants to find a way to boost the immune systems of these creatures by seeing if tadpoles grow bigger and develop faster if given multivitamins.
Lorren gave nine tadpoles multivitamins daily through their metamorphosis into frogs. These frogs weighed 52 percent more and grew to be 66 percent longer than frogs in a control group. Lorren established a frog pond in her backyard and got it certified by the National Wildlife Federation as a backyard wildlife habitat. She released the frogs into that pond and will continue to study them as bio-indicators of her backyard habitat.
