During the last week of the internship, we had the opportunity to present our project pitch and prototypes at the 2022 Rice360 Internship Innovation Showcase, held in the BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC). We decided to have our medium-fidelity prototypes for...
Hi everyone! We got to work a lot on prototyping this week, and it’s been great to see our designs come to life in a more polished iteration than our low-fidelity prototypes. We rendered high-fidelity versions in Fusion 360, created Adobe Illustrator files with their...
This week, we worked on low and medium-fidelity prototypes for three devices that performed well in our screening and scoring matrices: the UFO, the Bucket Builder, and the Ladder. We made a lot of progress, and it’s really cool to see our sketches turn into physical...
This week was our busiest yet – with five interviews, brainstorming, and scoring our designs, we had plenty to work on. Speaking with Prince, our clinical mentor at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Malawi, was extremely helpful in solidifying our...
Hi everyone! We were able to make a lot of progress in our background research and informational interviews this week, which will be very helpful moving forward into brainstorming and prototyping. With the information from our interviews, we revised our initial list...
This week went by so quickly! After meeting with our mentor Jackie last Friday, we got to work making a spreadsheet of questions for the Rice360 Fellows. With Jackie’s help, we were able to refine and rephrase our questions, and they were ready to be shared with some...
Hi all! My name is Michelle Gachelin, and I am a rising junior at Rice majoring in Health Sciences and minoring in Global Health Technologies and Environmental Studies. I am originally from Dallas, Texas, but I’ve lived all over the world, including France, South...