Week 3 - Veronica Aruta


I definitely enjoyed figuring out how to design an app within the limited time we were given. :)



I am proud of the poster we created and the problem we aim to address. :)
  

 This week was the most rigorous one out of the three that have passed so far in the program. This last week was filled with finalizing the device we proposed to address a problem within underserved populations. The previous four days were spent on creating the research poster, coding our program, and designing an app that would sync with data from our smartwatch. As a beginner in writing C++ and Swift, getting our components to work was challenging from the start. However, with the help of supervisors and support from colleagues, building the project one by one proved to be tedious but not impossible.

    In the short time I spent daily walking to Rice to reach the conducive circuits lab and work on activities highly relevant to my career and field of interest, I found that I had grown as an individual. Initially, there were doubts about whether I belonged in engineering at all. Yet by the end of the program, my fondness and love for technology had only seemed to evolve, and now I could not let the dream of finishing my bachelor’s degree with an engineering degree go. From here, I am excited to discover what other devices or innovations my brain can come up with. Execution of ideas would be arduous, yes, but fulfilling and worth it, precisely as I found making our product to be. Being chosen and paid to conduct research with Rice has been a great privilege, one whose lessons will influence me for the rest of my life.

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