Hi everyone,

Welcome back! This past couple of weeks, we wrapped up our summer workshop and started prototyping our project.

The final week of the summer workshop consisted of brainstorming, prototyping, and iterating. We selected our project, a digital fetoscope, where we decided to retrofit a pinard horn. The idea behind it is that we would pick up the sound that is amplified via a pinard horn and digitize the fetal heart rate. This would significantly reduce the cost of monitoring the baby’s heart rate, as ultrasounds are not readily available in most hospitals in Kenya.

Our summer workshop peers also had great projects that they were prototyping for a competition at the end of the week, and we watched their innovative pitches on Friday! To conclude the end of the summer program and to say goodbye to everyone who’ve been nothing but kind, helpful, and humorous, we visited a Brazilian Barbecue restaurant!

We will be working on this project for the next 4 weeks, along with our host project that we were assigned a couple of days ago! We are assigned to create an active cast that would reduce the effect of muscle atrophy for sports-related injuries. We spent the whole day conducting a literature review about the physiopathology of muscle atrophy, current solutions that exist, and the implementation of the therapy methods into a case.

We visited the Nairobi Arboretum for a quick stroll in nature, and the vegetation there was so diverse, and we got to see so many monkeys! We also went to the Rice meet-up for all of the different programs in Kenya, and we ate delicious Ethiopian food. I met a fellow Bakerite’87 there as well!