Week 5: The Bacteria Who Lived

As the internship comes to a close, we have been spending most of our time putting final touches on our device, analyzing the results of our comparative incubation test, and sharing our work. My teammates and I are so excited about the work we have been able to...

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Week 4: Schrödinger’s Colonies

This week was a week of big strides! As the internship comes to a swift close, we are working on pulling together some final deliverables. We have a fully functioning circuit (minus a mysteriously buggy SD card), a more ergonomic casing, and an almost finished journal...

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Week 3: The Cutest Little Switch

I can’t believe another week has passed! Though a short week with the long weekend, week 4 has proven to be the week where Team PetriFI has made some of the largest breakthroughs in the internship thus far. While we are still trudging through debugging our breadboard,...

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Week 1: Goal Setting

Hi! My name is Teja Paturu and I’m a rising senior at Rice University and this summer I am so excited to be working at the OEDK through the Rice 360 summer internship over the next few weeks. I am a Biosciences major with a concentration in Cell Biology & Genetics...

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