This summer, four high school students from Trinity Valley School interned at BRIT through our Junior Volunteer/Intern program. These students were given the task of applying their computer science background to the challenge of helping BRIT create a quick and easy way to determine the fullness of our herbarium cabinets. By better understanding the details of the capacity of the cabinets, BRIT will be able to strategically plan for future growth and management of the herbarium collections. L to R: Ashia White, Kevin James, Jason Best, and Jacob Haydel I worked with students Grace Beasley, Jacob Haydel, Kevin James, and Ashia White to explore the process of using computer vision technology to analyze images of the open cabinets. We set out to extract details of each cabinet’s structure and...

High school students from Trinity Valley School spent their summer break utilizing their computer science skills to create a quick and easy way to determine the fullness of our herbarium cabinets.