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...
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...
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,...
Week 2: Thinking About the Global Water Crisis
It’s hard to believe that we are almost to the halfway point of this summer program! While we have made great progress in our project as you can read about in my teammate Kenton Roberts’ blog post for week 2, I spent a lot of time over these past few weeks reflecting...
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...