Success!!!

This has been a very exciting week!!! On Monday we finished up our models that we wanted to present to Dr. Schmeler. Tuesday we walked over to the BRC in the morning and presented four variations of each of the four stages of cervical cancer that our client had asked from us. We asked Dr. Schmeler and her lab for feedback on the accuracy of the surface texture, color, and color change for each of the cervical models. The entire lab was mind blown when they saw the color change and I felt really proud of our cervices!! They were also able to provide very helpful and positive feedback on each of the models. They really liked how we made different iterations of the same stage and they asked us to continue making four models for each stage. Therefore we will be making sixteen cervices instead of four for our final product. I am super happy because Dr. Schmeler and Dr. Kortum said that our models could definitely be very useful on their trips to Malawi and El Salvador. Dr. Scmeler said she would even like to use them as early as September! After the meeting we immediately began editing our files according to their feedback. We also worked on making all of the cervices hollow in order to fill them with hot water so that the color change will last longer. We even ordered flexible filament to print the cervices with in order to make them more realistic. We have already printed the normal and cystic cervices with regular filament and we plan on printing the precancerous and cancerous ones with the ninjaflex. We still have a lot to do in the last week, but we are on track to have fully functional final prototypes by Tuesday! Lastly, we ended the week by making really cool t-shirts using screen printing which was a lot of fun. 002034ab579048a3b577e7c1cf8f61c0 b8c94f1b37b84f28833fa28634d45bde 6b869852a0634099a6bd068b113a8b4e