Hear from our interns
Week 0: OEDK Technology Preparation and Learning!
Hello! As one of the three interns that are not bio-engineering majors, I’d like to begin my first blog by talking a little bit about what drew me to the Global Health...
Week 0. Preparations in the OEDK
Hello all! Welcome to my blog, where I will be documenting my experiences in Malawi through the Rice 360 Summer Internship over these next few months. I’m indescribably...
0: Preparing for Takeoff
The last couple of months have been busy with preparations. We have attended multiple orientation sessions, signed documents for our program coordinators, booked flights, made...
1. First Weeks Before Departure, Working in the OEDK
Hello everyone! Welcome to my Rice 360 Blog! This is my first blog post, so let me introduce myself. My name is Kyla Barnwell and I am a rising junior at Jones college majoring...
1. Ready, Set, Prep!
During matriculation, President Leebron began his address to our class by saying something along the lines of “We have people here from all around the world…...
Landing
Hello, everyone! Pardon the delay in posting – I wrote this and many of the following posts many weeks ago, but had to save them until I could get some computer problems fixed....
Meeting The Interns
A week of learning! We first met our fellow interns that study here at the Polytechnic on Monday, this moment of introduction was exciting and came after a long time of...
Week 2: Presentations and Hospital Observations
This past week has been busy and all over the place, but not in a bad way. Early in the week we presented the device prototypes we brought from Rice to Rice 360 staff, students...