everybody's been feeling like we've been here for months now. It's a fresh and new Universe with so much to see. After Renan made us run around the bushes all morning, we continued chasing our very own killer centrifuge, trying to save paramecium from non-worms that look like worms to everyone except biologists, coding like there's no tomorrow and taking blood from everyone that is not a minor for the Databetes sub-project. So, we can say that at this moment we're literally bleeding for our Summer School. Stay with us!
Petra & Neva
Morning workout Renan style
DATABETES news
We started our day in very interesting way. Renan's
workout was the most creative so far: running around every bush and tree into
the almost infinite loop and kicking some ghosts (or we were hallucinating
because we got up 5 min earlier).
As far as our project is concerned, it was the most
diverse day so far. First we learned basics of probability, threw some dices,
coins, and then the moment we were expecting all day came: we became VAMPIRES!
Our project leader Lucija voluntered first to suffer
in the name of the science by taking a glucose level test (it's basically
poking you with an needle, draining some blood and let the machine do the
rest).
Among our patients there were two very interesting
volunteres: Petra who sprayed a fountain of blood and Domagoj who got obsessed
with poking and constantly begged for more.
The rest of the day we learned about hypothesis
testing – there is a high probability we'll understand it tomorrow morning when
we get some sleep.
P. S. Don't disturb us tomorrow from 3:45 to 4:15 PM it's our nap
time!
The DATAbetes forcefully taking a sample of blood from a non-suspecting CTO
DNATRiX crew advice
The day
started with Renan’s workout, which was very tiring (we learned to do air
kicks). A few moments later, we were in the lab, starting a pipetting +
centrifugation marathon that would last the whole day (our fingers are still
hurting). An advice from the DNATRiX team: being closed in a lab for too much
time is dangerous for one’s mental health. We experienced it by ourselves… Until
the next daily news, stay tuned!
The DNATRiX crew
We reached a
breakthrough. Finally something to brag about. After an interesting morning
workout-martial-art-learning, we hurried to our lab. Something was telling us
that this day is going to be special. The sample finally arrived! Thank you
Madds! We tested the sample with our one of a kind probe and it turned out to
be exactly what we expected. It is superconductive! However, no one is perfect
and neither are we (but we are close). We stumbled across some minor issues
that we will for sure solve first thing in the morning. Below this text you can
see graph of our first measurements. As already said, tomorrow we continue so
wish us luck!
With
love,
The
Killers
The Killer graph
The Killer project leader
Steve the Killer
Hey everyone,
Because of the workshops we couldn't inform you about our success. Our first sample is superconductive. (The magnet levitates above our sample in liquid nitrogen.) Since we were carried out by levitation we were reminded of gravity by the falling bottles filled with liquid nitrogen.
+ MATEJA: Thank you so much for the amazing cake. It saved our lives and it was a new exotic experience for our tongues. (I think because of the rum. J)
Today we had a lot to do (as always). We had some finished samples for the physicists and they measured the Tc. I was 120 Kelvin! What did that mean to us? We had two possibilities: we created the best sample has never seen before (with our improvised scale) and we'll get the Nobel Prize or their machine had a problem. (Unfortunately, the last one has more sense…) After the lecture we had to stay for a while to do the first steps of the sol-gel process. We were so tired that we didn’t explode anything… really… Or not directly… Actually we crushed 5 glass tubes, 1 glass pipe, 1 funnel, 1 scalpel blade etc. (etc. = I don’t remember what else we destroyed.)
Xoxo,
The MADD
The Madd crew
It was a mini field trip in the morning! Actually, we went to the riverside to collect some fresh water as a new home for our poor little Paramecium. Also, we went to the store to get some tasty baker's yeast for them to eat and get healthier. There were also lots of promising experiments with the Arduino, while Reka succeeded with her "silver mirror" experiment! It's so shiniy, congrats! Just a little piece of advice; you can use your body heat if you don't have an incubator for growing bacteria. P.S. A huge thanks to the brave Mateja Hajdinjak for helping us prepare the E.Coli for centrifuging, it smelt horrible. (Applause!) - the NanoCollective
The NanoCollective crew
Today was the hardest day, we had to connect all of our components into CPU, and we almost succeeded.
Still we have to write some processes and instructions. Hopefully, we think that we will do that
tomorrow morning so we can go further.
Here is our work on two boards, it looks pretty. ;) - the C3PU
The C3PU work
Happy project leader 101
Today
we were blessed with the opportunity to enjoy our morning workout lead by our
great leader Renan. Then, when we actually went to work, our day actually got
much better. We got some results! Finally! Actually getting results wasn’t that easy. We
had some unexpected problems, but failure leads to perfection. Soon our
pendulums swung just as expected. Later we did some programming and made our
first working program which still needs to be improved. Here are some cool
photos made by of our lecturers Leo Sutic, so you can also enjoy them. - the Unpredictables
The Unpredictables work
Laviru & Irena :)
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