Tiffany Serra-Pichardo ’22
Week 10:
Frenzied Byes
August 4, 2021 | This is my last week here in South Carolina. The workweek was mostly the same, but with the added stress of packing and doing an online class. It has been a great experience being here. I got to do things that I never had the opportunity to do before, like working in the lab and […]
Week 9:
New Sensor Parts and a Fun Meeting
July 21, 2021 | Tuesday morning, Chandler and I worked to make it possible for the sensor to sleep for short periods of time to conserve battery life. Despite how straightforward that seems, it is actually more difficult than you would think. Neither of us has a lot of experience in computer science, so it has been taking much […]
Week 8:
An Ending in Sight
July 14, 2021 | It is very bittersweet that I realized my time here is starting to come to an end. Though I am still a few weeks out from leaving, I have already begun to mentally organize everything I own into boxes that will be packed into my car for my drive back up north. I will leave […]
Week 7:
Reading Sensor Research
July 9, 2021 | Monday morning was spent saying goodbye and helping my friend pack up her belongings. We rarely get to see each other in person, so it is always sad when we have to say bye. We got McDonald’s for breakfast, the most nutritious breakfast one can have. Then, we started the drive to Hilton Head. It […]
Week 6:
In The Routine of Things
July 9, 2021 | If you haven’t caught on by now, my weeks are in a generally set routine, for the most part. It starts off with working on the sensor and then moves to working on the covid lab. It usually ends with working on the sensor again. This week just like the last few, was pretty much […]
Week 5:
A Special Visitor
June 23, 2021 | Monday was a very fun day! Professor Rhawn came all the way from Iowa to South Carolina to visit the campus and see the lab facilities. The day started out with working on the sensor with Chandler like usual, it wasn’t long before I made the trip to Professor Tye’s office and found Professor Rhawn. […]
Week 4:
Retrieving the Sensor and Starting a New Lab
June 17, 2021 | The start of the week was very slow, and I spent most of it relaxing in my room, however on Wednesday things began to pick up steam. It was the start of the COVID-19 lab. We started off by going to the water processing plant and collecting the water samples. There was a total of […]
Week 3:
Deploying the Sensor
June 8, 2021 | The Sensor This week was very similar to the previous two weeks, work on the water sensor and collect the water samples, that was until Friday came. We deployed the water sensor! This is just a trial run, to make sure that the sensor is accurate and working as expected. The sensor was deployed on […]
Week 2:
First Boating Experience
June 3, 2021 | This week I started working daily on the water quality sensor. I created a schematic that we can use to recreate the sensor in the future. Currently, we are testing the water sensor to ensure the accuracy of the sensor in the lab. It’s been a long but simple process to test the accuracy of […]
Week 1:
Getting Started
May 27, 2021 | This week has just been the beginning of the wildness that is to come for the summer. Sunday started out with my dad and I moving my stuff into campus housing after the 12-hour drive from Pennsylvania to South Carolina. The housing here is very nice! They even have a kitchen with a dishwasher (Cornell […]