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SPIRE-EIT 2025

Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education – Emerging Interface Technologies

Author Archives: Johann Chen

Project Progress

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on July 14, 2025 by Johann ChenJuly 14, 2025

Last week Friday, we went to University of Iowa to give some presentations on our projects and also hear about their projects as well. It was a super cool experience to visit another university, hear about their program and also … Continue reading →

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Presentation

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on July 10, 2025 by Johann ChenJuly 10, 2025

Today a lot has happened, it feels like a lot has happened. Natasha had presented a class to us about thinking and decision making, it was an interesting topic that was talked about. This lecture was a bit different and … Continue reading →

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Neuralangelo

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on June 27, 2025 by Johann ChenJune 27, 2025

Quick blog post. I spent the last 8 hours or so on class trying to get pas the first step, but these last two hours for my MCA has been really nice. Stephen and Adam are helping out a ton, … Continue reading →

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Lasgneon

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on June 26, 2025 by Johann ChenJune 26, 2025

I forgot to mention all the other luncheon guest speakers in the previous weeks. Thank you Eliot, Jack, Jim, and Holly for giving us advice through your stories about your life. The career ups and downs are always interesting to … Continue reading →

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Walmart Is Walkable

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on June 20, 2025 by Johann ChenJune 20, 2025

Hey interns, I’ll just talk about a few events that were pretty interesting yesterday. We had a pasta event, where we pretty much had Eliot guide us like a baby on how to make the pasta. Natasha and David made … Continue reading →

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Back to the beginning

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on June 17, 2025 by Johann ChenJune 17, 2025

It’s rough, thinking you have the perfect research question, imagining a plan that everything will follow smoothly, As I should known with all our mentors past stories and all of the tellings of failure, our brilliant research question was pretty … Continue reading →

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Lights

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on June 13, 2025 by Johann ChenJune 13, 2025

For today’s blog post, I will talk about yesterday, 6/12. With our research, our goals became more clear as we became more knowledgable with the concept of self driving cars, more specifically, the remote operators that can assist if there … Continue reading →

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Struggles with SolidWorks

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on June 10, 2025 by Johann ChenJune 10, 2025

Yesterday, on Monday, we learned some topics on SolidWorks, which was my first time, and it was pretty rough with lots of new material to learn. At first, I had no idea idea what I was doing, I was trying … Continue reading →

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The Ordinary Pizza

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on June 4, 2025 by Johann ChenJune 5, 2025

For today’s lunch, we went to a restaurant “Pizza Pit” to eat, pizza. Before, we had a lot of recommendations saying that this pizza was cheap and really good tasting. So, we had to go try it out, it took … Continue reading →

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First Taco Tuesday

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on June 3, 2025 by Johann ChenJune 5, 2025

Since we have blog time every single day of this week, I’m gonna write only about one topic for this post. Today we had a presentation shown to us about colors and gestures, all involving VR. This topic was interesting … Continue reading →

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First Monday Blog

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on June 2, 2025 by Johann ChenJune 3, 2025

What’s up, today is the first Monday since the start of the program and a some exciting stuff has happened. With the research stuff first, we have learned C++ for the first time today, we had some team building activities … Continue reading →

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5/29/2025

SPIRE-EIT 2025 Posted on May 29, 2025 by Johann ChenMay 29, 2025

For today’s blog, I’ll talk about my arrival on the 27th to what I did now. Waking up at 2:30 am on the 27th was probably the worst part, but I was able to sleep on the plane over here, … Continue reading →

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Posts by Intern

  • Jacob Becker
  • Johann Chen
  • Alexa Hatcher
  • Madeleine Korver
  • Aidan Link
  • Jacky Sierra Lopez
  • Vanina Joyce Nguemsop Feutie
  • Nathan Phillips
  • Jake Shaheen

Recent Posts

  • Stephen and Eliot shoutout
    by Madeleine Korver
  • Meetings and ethics talk
    by Alexa Hatcher
  • Test early, even when you’re not ready
    by Nathan Phillips
  • Last Few Weeks
    by Jaqueline Sierra Lopez
  • Remembering the Important of Exploring with Drs. Wilford, Barakat, and Gilbert
    by Nathan Phillips
  • Iowa University
    by Jacob Becker
  • Breaking the Chain
    by Jake Shaheen
  • University of Iowa
    by Aidan Link
  • Cross Program – University of Iowa Presentations & Des Moines bike ride
    by Madeleine Korver
  • University of Iowa Presentations
    by Jaqueline Sierra Lopez
  • Presenting at U of I
    by Alexa Hatcher
  • Project Progress
    by Johann Chen
  • Luncheon Lecture & assorted thoughts
    by Madeleine Korver
  • Presentation
    by Johann Chen
  • Luncheon with Miko & Team Progress
    by Vanina Joyce Nguemsop Feutie
  • 4th day weekend
    by Jaqueline Sierra Lopez
  • Debra Kumar & Miko Wilford + student
    by Jaqueline Sierra Lopez
  • 4rth of July and Luncheon Lecture
    by Madeleine Korver

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  5. dtang on Cross Program – University of Iowa Presentations & Des Moines bike ride
  6. dtang on Project Progress
  7. natashal on University of Iowa Presentations
  8. Madeleine Korver on Luncheon with Miko & Team Progress
  9. Madeleine Korver on 4th day weekend
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