3B February 12 Update

We began to plan our presentation to Marc DeNofio and the software developers. Additionally, we practiced our presentation and divided the slides amongst ourselves, based on our levels of expertise. Our presentation is Wednesday at 3:30, so we will continue practicing and refining our presentation next class. Furthermore, members of EYE and EDD are meeting with website developers tomorrow to remake our blog and increase information accessibility. Jillian Z...

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3B January 16 Update

Today was another working period for the group. More progress was made towards the messaging system, as well as for the deployment setups. The group also continued to look for possible fundraisers.  Nathaniel Gre...

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January 11 Update

Today our coding group has continued to work on creating a messaging system for the Team Rubicon application and website. We have successfully sent and received messages using the Twilio coding framework. Our fundraising group is continuing to come up with ideas for raising money to support the class while the Outreach group has continued to reach out to specialists that could assist our project. Other members of our team have looked for alternatives to Twilio that would better suit our project. Additionally, our fearless leader is working on creating...

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3B 5, 10, And 15 Week Goals

There are two major overarching goals that I want to achieve throughout the rest of the time in EDD. I first want to, obviously, produce a product which Team Rubicon could possibly implement. Secondly, I want to work with each student to help achieve their individual goals and bring about a sense of accomplishment in the class. Beyond that I have listed goals for 5, 10, and 15 weeks from this day. 5 weeks (February 12th) Now that the class is getting into the project and the routine of working towards developing/getting help for the app I...

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3B January 5 Update

We have started our initial coding, and we successfully sent a text message using our new program. Additionally, the Public Relations and Outreach team has begun to contact software engineering experts at Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp to supplement our coding and help answer any questions. Moving forward, we plan to contact Marc and present our application to Team Rubicon COOs and Facebook engineers. Additionally, the Fundraising group is working on coming up with ideas of things to sell, so we can support both ourselves and future classes. Jillian...

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3B December 6 Blog Update

Much has happened over the past two classes. After splitting into groups, we got a basic wire-frame laid out, and the programming team downloaded applications to begin basic work. Additionally, Collin Bolles, Renee Banagan, Stella Haley, and Jillian Zick met with Marc DeNofio (the communications manager of Team Rubicon) on December 5th to discuss the project. He elucidated the nature of the problem for us- Team Rubicon's main issues lie in slow communication,...

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