Hear from our interns
Week 1: Orientation and Setting Goals
Hi y’all!Since this is my first post of the summer, I wanted to make a brief introduction. My name is Alex David and I am a rising senior from Will Rice College majoring in...
1. Introduction and Preparations
Hi everyone, my name is Pranav Mandyam, and I’m a rising junior majoring in Biosciences (Cell Biology & Genetics) and minoring in Global Health Technologies. I was first...
8. Zikomo Malawi
Now that I have been home for a week, I’m not sure how to feel. Everything is familiar yet different at the same time. I somehow managed to go from living with 10 other...
8. When I Was in Malawi
an excerpt from my journal… Day 50: A few weeks ago, I wrote about how hard it was to believe that we were halfway through this internship. Now, looking out the window of one of...
7. Down to the Wire
Our last couple of days in Malawi were a whirlwind and I honestly can’t believe that it is over. Of course, we had a lot to do and not enough time, but part of the experience is...
Week 7. Final Thoughts
It’s been four days since I returned home to Prosper, Texas, USA. People keep asking me if it feels weird to be home. I think people expect me to say something along the lines of...
7. Progress
The past two weeks can be summarized by two words: rapid prototyping. Everyday, we walk into the studio with ambitious goals of finishing multiple attachments to our model, but...
5/6. Let the Prototyping Begin
It is surreal that we only have a less than a week left in Malawi. Somehow the time has gone by and I didn’t notice it, but on the other hand we started prototyping! Our focus...