Today was our first day working with Vector Textiles. Mr. Self began by walking us all through an overview of the company, discussing a rough outline of the work that we were to complete of the next few days, and answering any questions we had. The main research topic was about permethrin, a chemical pesticide used on mosquito nets, and how it impacts humans and the environment specifically in Sub-Saharan Africa. After leaving the meeting, we came up with a plan for work times, check in dates, as well as specific aspects of our research topic to delve in over the coming days. Mr. Self approved the plan, and we spent the rest of our day researching a general overview of the chemical, just to get a basic understanding of its effects before we started going deeper into the research process. We had a pretty flexible schedule today, as a lot of the specifics of our work were left to us to decide, which was really cool.
