by Malcolm Williams | Aug 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
This week was focused on a Friday presentation in which we would present all the work we had accomplished here at the hospital. In order to prepare for this presentation, we presented the individual projects to the Hospital de Amor counterpart associated with that...
by Luisanny | Aug 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hi everyone!!! Its officially been 9 weeks in here in Brazil but if I’m being honest it has not felt like 9 weeks. I genuinely have no idea where the time has gone, I guess everyone was right when they said time flies by when you are having fun! This week has...
by Rei Guo | Aug 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
I can’t believe I’ll be leaving this Saturday. I’ve had an incredible time here, but I’m also excited to go home and see my family again. Last week was pretty uneventful. I’ve been working on my final project for mechanical thrombectomies...
by Connor Bly | Jul 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hello hello, welcome back to the blog. Another week has gone by here in Costa Rica so lets dive in. I am starting to wrap up my projects at work which means I have gone away from the days of CAD and prototyping and am working to setup times for testing on the floor...
by Alexandra | Jul 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Welcome back! While this week wasn’t spent at Ninos, we still saw Dr. Bogantes as we had two days of cadaver lab. Was it an interesting experience? Yes. Did it also freak me out a bit? Also yes. I’m glad that I got to have the experience and see that side...
by Apple Lee | Jul 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
This weekend marked the last of our drive-away Costa Rican adventures. Since we decided to leave on Friday this weekend, we decided to sleep in a little and left for Jaco at 8:30am. Little did we know that because this was a long weekend with the Annexation of...
by Malcolm Williams | Jul 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
This week’s focus was on testing all the code for the H&E Stainer and ensuring that the device will work as intended when slides with samples are introduced. This was a fairly simple yet tedious process. However, I found that throughout the week I became...
by Luisanny | Jul 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hi everyone! After approximately 48 hours of continuous 3D printing, we are officially done with our main design project here at Hospital de Amor! Once everything was printed, we tested our G-code and aligner, and everything works perfectly! I won’t lie, the constant...
by Jasmine Ferrarer | Jul 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. From July 15th – 22nd, I continued to design the VacciBox 2.0 walls, helped to install 2 VacciBox units at local hospitals, and attended fun weekend activities with my Drop Access coworker, Melanie. I’m making slow and...
by Rei Guo | Jul 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
It finally happened: the Niños gang finally went to the UCR cadaver lab, and what an experience it was… He threw us into the deep end on the first day by immediately showing us half of a skull and torso (don’t ask how it was only half and not the whole)....
