My name is Christina Samuel. I am a fourth year student studying Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering. I am so excited that I have the opportunity to be part of the Beyond Tradition Borders summer internship program. I haven’t written a blog before, so bear with me..hahaha. I have made friends with Emily, Catherine and Sarah. They are so cool.

The first week was all about getting to know each other and brainstorming about the projects that we want to design and develop. The first project that we all agreed to do was a Phototherapy Dosing Meter. Some students at Rice University designed and developed an analog dosing meter but it was not working. Final year students from the Polytechnic also designed and developed a digital dosing meter but it had no filter and it was not sensitive to light. We brainstormed about how we could come up with a working dosing meter. We all agreed that it should be a digital one which is well calibrated and more sensitive to light.