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Audrey Lippert:
Welcome again to the podcast. This week, we interviewed an ASU alum making waves with an progressive new search and rescue startup.
Trent Ashdown:
We additionally discovered concerning the thrilling new know-how behind ASU’s award-winning iGem staff, who sat down with Sic-tech Editor Kate Gore.
Audrey Lippert:
I’m Audrey Lippert.
Trent Ashdown:
I’m Trent Ashdown, and that is State Press Play.
Trent Ashdown:
Hello, welcome again to the podcast. I’m Trent Ashdown, and I’m right here with Anupam Vivek, an ASU alumni in aerospace engineering with a job in an thrilling new tech startup. Anyu, thanks for approaching to the present.
Anupam Vivek:
Thank you, Trenton.
Trent Ashdown:
Can you introduce your self in your place at Clearcast?
Anupam Vivek:
Definitely. So my title is Anupam Vivek. I’m an aerospace engineering graduate. I’m working for Clearcast as their {hardware} integration and take a look at engineer. My function is multifaceted as a result of it’s a startup. It is quick -paced. I perform a little little bit of getting {hardware} into drones and making certain that that {hardware} executes and works because it ought to.
Trent Ashdown:
So you point out drones. In your personal phrases, are you able to inform me what Clearcast is?
Anupam Vivek:
We’re within the area of search and rescue. So by search and rescue, I imply like, to illustrate you are in a ship social gathering, proper? And you are having your time, having drinks, music’s enjoying, and all of a sudden all you hear is, assist, assist. Somebody save her, any individual save her. And you are sitting there in type of this combat or flight state of affairs, not realizing what to do, and nobody’s actually doing something about it. So the situation is that this girl is drowning and gasping for air making an attempt to come back as much as the water within the ocean or lake and no one’s serving to her, like a bystander impact. So then what you do, you being considerably of an initiative particular person or an individual with civic sense, if you’ll, you leap in and you save her. The second you seize a maintain of her, she’s immediately making an attempt to drown you and making an attempt to gasp for air and by some means you make it to a floor and increase, that is a life save…
To hear extra from Anupam, please tune in to State Press Play.
Kate Gore:
Hi, welcome again to the state press play. Today I’m right here with the 2025 ASU IGM management staff. Today we have Michelle Kim, the moist lab, and software program lead, Nicole Salazar, the human practices lead, and Ryan Crane, the {hardware} lead. Thank you all a lot for being right here right this moment. And to get began, Could one in all you speak slightly bit about what IGEM is and the work that college students do with this system?
Nicole Salazar:
So IGEM is a worldwide competitors, primarily undergraduate, and every staff builds a system of organic elements utilizing artificial biology to resolve type of the world’s urgent issues.
Kate Gore:
And then may you go round and type of say the way you initially acquired concerned with IGEM?
Ryan Crane:
Yeah, so I initially acquired concerned in IGEM due to the Synthetic Biology Club at ASU known as DIY Bio. During my freshman 12 months, I went to these conferences and discovered much more about what artificial biology is and the potential it has on this planet. And finally that led me to becoming a member of the IGM staff.
Michelle Kim:
Shout out to DIY Bio as a result of that is additionally the place I discovered about IGM. So like DIY Bio has this program known as OpenLab and they primarily have a undertaking. So like one of many years we engineered micro organism micro organism to supply completely different shade pigments. And then this 12 months we labored on spider silk. So all these cool tasks like confirmed me what artificial biology can do to resolve the world’s issues and that is what made me fascinated about IGEM too
Nicole Salazar:
Yeah similar factor with me i first joined DIY Bio my second 12 months as a result of i wished to get extra analysis expertise and DIY Bio is nice for that um in order that type of launched me to this world of artificial biology i wished to get extra concerned so i joined the excessive health club staff
To hear extra from Nicole, Ryan and Michelle, please tune in to State Press Play.
Audrey Lippert:
And that is all for this week’s State Press Play. I’m Audrey Lippert.
Trent Ashdown:
And I’m Trent Ashdown. State Press Play is produced by our podcast desk editor, Audrey Lippert. Our unique music is by Ellie Willard and Jake Leroux.
Audrey Lippert:
Special because of our multimedia editor, Matthew Marengo.
Trent Ashdown:
You can take a look at all these tales and extra on statepress.com. See you subsequent week.
Kate Gore is the Science and Tech Desk editor, making certain correct protection of the scientific endeavors accomplished by ASU college and college students and their impression on the broader neighborhood. She is starting her second 12 months on employees at The State Press. She beforehand labored as a Community and Culture Reporter, shining gentle on vital occasions and happenings round campus.