Thursday

Today's the last day of work. Well tomorrow is but that doesn't really count since it's presentation day. I haven't updated my blog in days because Katie & I have been working on our presentation. It's all finished all we have to do is practice it and go over a couple of things.

"52 cards and I can't catch a single one..."

Today Katie and I went to the pc lab to work on our presentations. Also, we haven't gotten recorded yet and Beth left early. Sean and Jake came with us to the printer to record us. It was longer then I thought but I'm sure Beth can cut out some stuff. We thought there would be a lecture but there wasn't. No more free pizza.

Tuesday

Dr. Swartzlander was here today. Well actually it's his last day here because he is going to Arizona for a month and won't be there for our presentations. Katie, Ryan and I will be doing a one big presentation. We talked to Dr. S about everything we will be working on for the past 2 weeks of work. He said we won't be able to finish our project which was making a lens with the same characteristics of a polarizer. He told us we still needed to print 4 different gray scales on the PVA and the undergraduates will finish the project.

Monday

We tried the printer again with a new piece of PVA. It still won't stick. We don't know why it is not working. It might be too stiff.

Friday

Went over to the circular building next to crossroads for the poster presentations. We ate breakfast and walked around to see some of the posters. All of the students were dressed formal. Later, all of the interns got together and took a break at Javas.

Thursday

Finally got the amount of volts on the printer. We started off printing 10 volts on to the PVA. Today when we went back to the printer, we couldn't get the PVA to stay for some reason. We tried for an hour and a half but failed to get it to stick.

"I know you wanna hold my hand,but this isn't the right time!"

Today during our staff meeting Roger Easton made a presentation about some of the things he has done and will be doing at his trip to Egypt next month. It took about half an hour and then he showed us a clip of National Treasure 2 when they talk about the process they used from Easton's ideas. When the presentation was over, I went back to the lab. Katie and I took the cartridge we used to print on yesterday and went over to the printer. It took an hour literally for the PVA to stay on the printer. It wouldn't stick even when the vacuum was on. Finally, we got it to stay. By reading the manual, we found out how to control the volume. It kept on asking us for a pan that we didn't have so we switched to the spacing. It looked better then before so we printed a couple of corners. There was a picnic for the School of Science that we attended for lunch. After lunch we went back to the printer. Apparently, we had to find a way to change the voltage. It took us about two hours and some printing until we called Dr. Swartzlander to help us out. He found out how to change the voltage and we took over from there.