Tonight Kurt English, Peter Snyder, Mr. Gallagher, and myself, Juliana Wakeman, went to C.T. Male Associates, P.C. to meet with Lena Weber, Ph.D., GIS Applications Manager. This was a follow-up to information Mr. Wakeman gave us on an online NRCS soil database. Dr. Weber taught us how to use ArcExplorer Java Edition with GIS Software. Using ArcExplorer we can access maps that show regions of soil type throughout New York State. We can search for maps of broader areas as necessary. Using Microsoft Access in conjunction with ArcExplorer we are able...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Meeting with Bruce Hodge
Posted on 12/18/2007 08:31:00 PM by Juliana Wakeman with No comments
Last night Bruce Hodge, founder of local company Tech Valley Technologies, was kind enough to meet with us for a second time. Not only did he help us educationally with our project. Mr. Hodge we be donating a server for our use. We are extremely thankful for this wonderful support! Mr. Hodge taught us how to use Perl, which is the language we will use for programming. We now have a much better idea of where our project may be headed, both this year and in future years. It is very exciting to see everything coming together! We really appreciate...
Monday, December 17, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Talking to the experts
Posted on 12/13/2007 10:14:00 AM by jpawlick4 with No comments
Two weeks ago, I went to the midwest to visit colleges. I stayed with my friend's family in which almost every adult male was a farmer. Not one to forget my InvenTeam responsibilities, I grilled my friend's relatives for about 2 hours about how they tested their soil, what measurements were most important, how they decided what treatments they needed, and how those treatments affected crop yield. Their input will help us make sure that our device is usefull; after all, despite all of our research, none of us are farmers. We should never forget...
Soil Compaction Presentation
Posted on 12/13/2007 10:03:00 AM by Timmy V with 1 comment
Today the Soil Compaction group presented their findings to the class. They primarily used the University of Minnesotat Extension website; http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/cropsystems/DC3115.html From here this group will attempt to come up with a device to determine soil compacti...
Friday, December 7, 2007
Article featured on SSHS Website
Posted on 12/07/2007 05:22:00 PM by Juliana Wakeman with No comments
While checking out the Saratoga Springs City School District web-site tonight I stumbled upon an article written about us!I think it was written in September because it says we learned of the award "this month" but the article briefly describes our plan for our project, the Lemelson-MIT Program, and Project Lead the Way. Mr. Gallagher is quoted saying, "The kids are really excited to be involved in this project. In the engineering world, this program is as big as it gets."He couldn't have said it any better. We really appreciate the support that...
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Comment by Professor Crawley
Posted on 12/06/2007 10:10:00 PM by Elliott Poppel with No comments
Hello Everyone -As you may or may not have noticed we have received our second comment on our blog. No, we didn't get Google-bombed again. Professor Ed Crawley from MIT posted a comment to a recent post on our blog.Dr. Ed Crawley is a Professor of Aeronatuics and Astronautics at MIT. He is also an Advisor to NASA, the Director of the Gordon MIT Program on Engineering Leadership, and has pretty awesome taste in music.We would like to thank you, Dr. Crawley, for your interest in our InvenTeam and we can not wait to get a chance to meet you at the...
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