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Who knew you could change the world in a summer?

Student travelers are a common sight during the summer. But lives will be saved thanks to the efforts of 17 Rice students who are spending their vacations combating world health problems in locales like Botswana and Guatemala. As part of Rice’s Beyond Traditional Borders initiative, the students are working in schools, health clinics, hospitals and town councils to try to solve health problems using both education and technology. Some of them are also testing medical prototypes they developed at Rice, such as a battery-powered monitor designed to prevent children from overdosing on intravenous fluids and a portable medical diagnostic kit known as a Lab-in-a-Backpack. For these Rice students, summer break isn’t what it’s cracked up to be — and people in some of the poorest parts of the world are better off for it.