Week 3- Merilyn Avellaneda

 Week 3 RICE

The final week of the Digital Health Young Scholar Program for the summer was filled with triumphs and good food. On Monday, we had our official tour of the Rice University campus. Despite the sunny weather, we learned more about Rice and its surprisingly dark origin story. After the tour, we enjoyed an amazing Tex-Mex lunch, which was by far the best meal we've had! Later that day, we worked on Python coding in Google Colab and imported the Torch library. 

The goal of our code was to estimate house prices based on square footage. To end the day, Jazlyn and I began working on our prototype, searching for code to help integrate a pulse sensor with a temperature sensor, which was an original idea we were excited about. I found some relevant code and made edits that day while Jazlyn began designing our poster and researching heat stroke. On Tuesday, we focused entirely on developing our medical device. That was the day Dr. Young helped us get the BPM (beats per minute) reading to show up on our LCD. Jazlyn and I pursued this route because we wanted to display body temperature and include a warning sign if the temperature got too high. Since we couldn't find a function for the TinyScreen watch that supported this, we decided to combine the temperature sensor and BPM readings to display on the LCD screen along with a warning message. Eventually, we were able to merge the functions into a single working code. 

On Wednesday, we added a bilingual warning message in English and Spanish to notify the user when it's time to cool down. We finished the day practicing our presentation. Then, on Thursday morning, we toured the ODEK at Rice and took our program photo. Overall, it was an exciting week! We were able to bring our ideas to life by creating, refining, and merging code to help combat heat stroke.

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