What are your Summer Plans

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Originally Posted by smitikshah

Omg I'm a research fanatic - the only thing that matches (or may exceed ) my passion of FIRST. Do you mind me asking what research camp you plan on doing?

I'm going to a neurological and indepth research program at Brown University's medical research institute.

Originally Posted by smitikshah

This summer I'm either working in a lab (MIT or NYU) on materials science research - specifically functionalized multi walled carbon nanotubes embedded with silver nanoparticles made into a MWCNT ink that can be used on various materials with an electric current running through it for cheaper and more efficient water filtration - possibly coupling this with shock electrodialysis.

Cool! I've been doing active research with professors that I know at our coal universities (mainly LSU, (ur pretty lucky you have access to MIT )). 2 years ago i did a research/paper on carcinogens and coffee, a bit before I did effects of insecticides on various subjects, last year I started working on a water powered engine. I got a couple of donors and sponsors lined up, but while its still an ongoing project, I kind of sidelined it for a bit. This past year I've been working with a group of 2 friends on effectively a method to reuse a device's thermal output and reuse it as energy for the device, (it would take several pages for me to explain how ), right now currently working on a phone case, but eventually expand to other devices such as laptops (mainly laptops like the macbook 2015 with no fans). We started out at about 5 percent efficiency, I think we are close to 60 percent now.

Originally Posted by smitikshah

I'll also likely be volunteering/shadowing at various doctors clinics, but the best case scenario would be to volunteer at the hospital.

Yup, having volunteered last year at my mom's hospital's clinic I realised how fun it was interacting with the patients, and also just plain out solving the problems that every new patient case is . Really boosted my entusiasm to go into biomedical enginnering than medschool.

Originally Posted by smitikshah

Though its packed I'm going to try not forget spending quality time with family - I rarely get time to see them during the school year.

I know right, especially after December. There is no break from anything.