I’ve never been good at goodbyes. As a child, I moved around many times, and the worst part of moving was always saying farewell to the people I’d met and the memories I’d made in each place – even as I got more used to it, it never got easier. Even now, endings...
This has been an absolutely CRAZY week, filled with both highs and lows. Over the course of the week, we made a lot of progress on the mechanical/physical aspects of the oil drum. We installed “tracks” to help the frame slide in and out of the oil drum easily. In...
This week, our team finalized the general design and structure of our device! It’s a relief to have a set plan we are moving with in the future. As I mentioned in my last post, based on expert feedback, we decided to focus on making the base of our mask-disinfecting...
I think that one thing that can be challenging for me in the design process is keeping myself from getting overly attached to certain ideas – it’s easy for me to get excited about one solution that I think will work best. While my enthusiasm for promising...
Project Progress Wow, I can’t believe another week has already passed and that we are over one-third done with the internship! This week was busy, but also very exciting. One of the first things we did was come up with a team name – we decided upon Now UV Me,...
Hello! My name is Abby Dowse, and I am a rising junior at Rice majoring in Bioengineering and minoring in Global Health Technologies. I am also a very proud member of Lovett College – the best residential college at Rice – and am originally from the state...