GMI Student Blogs

This week contained a lot of big developments. Early on this week the 3D printer we needed to continue our main project finally came in. With the arrival of this printer, it allowed us to start printing parts for the printer to be converted into an automatic H&E...

Jambo and welcome back to my blog! I’ve been busy with my internship project lately, so I’ll make this post short and sweet. During my 7th week at Drop Access, I spent the majority of my time improving my VacciBox SolidWorks design, attended a Production Team ERP Tool...

Welcome back to the blog everyone, just wrapped up week 6 here in Costa Rica and at Resonetics. It's hard to believe I only have 4 weeks left in this summer program, where has the time gone. It has been a great time so far and definitely the most traveling and...

Last weekend was truly a weekend of adventures. But before that, I had an interesting week at Niños Hospital. Like I mentioned in my previous blog, we were seeing the admitted patients. We were able to see the hospital's long-term EEG machine since a patient needed to...

Welcome back! This week, we got to see more admitted patients with Dr. Bogantes. One of the cases that sticks out to me was a little boy in the continuous monitoring unit. He has a severe case of epilepsy that requires him to be monitored with an EEG machines 24/7. It...

Welcome back! This past week at the hospital was another one of the inpatient weeks where Dr. Bogantes checks up on admitted patients in the children's hospital. Most notably, we visited a patient in the epilepsy monitoring unit. This specialized unit monitors brain...

Hi everyone, I hope all is well on the home front! Last week was a lot of fun! I made some strong headway on my project at Medevice, even though it was a short week, and had an even more exciting weekend in Diani. First, I have optimized and printed the second of my...

This past week was yet another very successful week. We officially wrapped up our final side project of the summer. Earlier in the program, we spoke with the head of the breast cancer prevention center here in the hospital, and he brought up a severe issue facing...

Welcome back y'all! I have completed my seventh week in Nairobi and have been making progress on my Medevice project slowly but surely. This past week, a short week for me due to a long weekend trip, I have continued testing my breadboarded circuits and my Arduino...