Today was our last day before the holiday break. We've spent today debugging Internet Explorer errors, and have made progress. The registration page forms no longer moves when the user hits tab. Internet Explorer still has a lot of problems though, especially with anything requiring cookies such as logging in. These pages work in Firefox and Google Chrome, a good alternative to Internet Explorer until we get that working. We hope to have the website supporting multiple zones for a user. This allows a user to, for example, take readings from different...
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
This weekend, I was fortunate enough to fly to South Bend, Indiana and visit the University of Notre Dame. Back in October, former InvenTeam member Jeff Pawlick came up with a 'design challenge' for our Engineering Design and Development class. The task was to create a 3-D model on AutoDesk Inventor that could be used for educational purposes in the new planetarium-like theater at Notre Dame.I decided to demonstrate how speakers work. After building each component of the speaker, I rendered a video in Inventor Studio to help show how the parts...
We plan to be using AJAX in the site soon. The implications of this programming language are very exciting. AJAX allows for behind the scenes communication with databases and servers. This gives users the feel of using software as opposed to being online. The page won't have to reload or redirect for changes to occur, they can happen right away.In other news, we are preparing for presentations in mid-January. Each team will be presenting on what they have learned and done in getting the website to work to a board of engineers. Andrea Mann from...
Friday, December 5, 2008
We are currently backing up our server, so I'm taking this opportunity to update everyone on what we're doing. The 'My Garden Consultant' page is being phased out and combined with the home page. When logged in users go back to the home page, they will see the functions currently contained in the My Garden Consultant page. This will help reduce redundancy in the site. It will also keep logged in users in parts of the site relevant to them. As for our future plans, the button images will be changed to image maps on the control panel that change...
Monday, November 24, 2008
Recently our team has been hard at work redesigning our communication protocol for device-server communication. This area is being led by Dennis Florence. Today we got our SensorDAQ successfully talking to our website. With the new communication protocol, users can have dynamic sensor configurations: a user can have any array of sensors, and the program will adapt to their configuration. Along with our recent success in our persistent session data system, this new protocol provides for an exciting new momentum for the team. More updates will...
Today the EDD class was visited by a former SSHS and Project Lead the Way graduate David Mendez. David is now attending the Naval Academy Annapolis and is his second year. He talked to us about the computer engineering and life at the Academy. It was a great experience for all of us especially Zack Tanner who was already accepted to both Annapolis and West Point and yet to decide where to go. We felt lucky to have the opportunity to speak to a student who has already accomplished so much in such a short period of time.The Ajax group is working...
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Today was InvenTeam group photo day. Everyone on the team got dressed up to take a bunch of pictures.On the website, we're working on the Session Tracker and Session ID for the log-in. The registration is now working and just needs to be tweaked a little more. After that, we move on to the data collection phase of the si...
Friday, November 14, 2008
We have completed the registration page's new design and are close to having it fully functional. Our log-in page is also correctly interfacing with the database as of a few days ago.We hope to continue making steady progress on the website as we begin to work on the pages for users once they have logged in. These will include a personalized home page as well as the interface between the Garden Consultant and the website for automated data collection. Other gadgets will also be added to these pages.We're all excited about what's to co...
Monday, November 10, 2008
Work on the Garden Consultant is progressing steadily. Our registration page is successfully restructured, and we're moving on to the log in / log out system. We recognize that any one user may have regions with very different conditions, so separate environmental zones can be managed. If a user specifies a plant that they wish to have, our system will match it with the zone best compatible with that plant's nee...
Friday, November 7, 2008
We are close to completing the registration page. We managed to salvage the page from what last year's team did, and are taking that code and putting it into our new setup. So the functionality is from last year, but with a new design. We hope to eventually have only the control panel change, while keeping the home page the same.In other news, the end of the first quarter is approaching, and so the end of the DVT (Digital Visualization Theater) contest is approaching. The winner will be chosen on November 13...
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
We have new original images ready for the backgrounds, one for each season. Thanks to Jacklyn Rodge from Alabama for doing the images. They look really nice. I'm especially fond of the winter image, which will be appearing soon.In other news, we are approaching our first meeting with Mr. Gallagher to review our current progress and set our goals for the next two weeks. This will be done as a diagnostic to fine tune our cour...
Monday, November 3, 2008
Jeffrey Pawlick, a former inventeam member and currently a Notre Dame student, is hosting a contest to present a 3d cad file in the digital visualization theater. Students from Saratoga Springs high school are building CAD models that are hard to visualize with out a 3d model. whom ever has the best presentation will get a free round trip ticket to Notre Dame and present their project. Good Luck to all.by Rory Korathu-Lar...
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Our school just had a 15 minute lockdown drill, so now that that's over we can get back to work.Yet more updates on the GC front.Apart from our new website interface, we're also working on some exciting new data handling technology. Our data interpretation language, LabView, will be able to update without any human interaction. With this we hope to make the GC wireless. This will provide for greater ease of use and more accurate data gathering.The HTML Team is still working hard on getting the website fully functional, and that should be done...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
This year's Invent Team is, as many of you may know, continuing the Garden Consultant from last year. We've already started on many of our goals for this year.What are these goals, you ask? Well, for starters we plan to streamline the website, making it easier to use and providing more functionality to it. The updated control panel is on the site, and will be functional shortly. We'll be adding Google Maps to the site for gardening store locations, and hopefully weather updates as well. Speaking of weather updates, we plan to have a weather advisory...
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Today we have some fabulous news to share! Bruce Hodge has been our InvenTeam's mentor for the last two years, and his assistance has been crucial in our project. In addition, he is also President of Tech Valley Technologies, a Ballston Spa based company that produces realistic targets for the millitary. Capital News 9, a local news station recently posted a news article about the work that Tech Valley Technologies has done and what it means for the soldiiers in foreign countries.Check it out: http://capitalnews9.com/content/top_stories/12...
Monday, October 6, 2008
It's been a while since the last post due to summer vacation. But never fear, the Saratoga InvenTeam is back for another year! And with a whole new team of students. At the end of last June, Saratoga said goodbye to its graduating seniors and welcomed in a new group of students willing to continue the work of their predecessors. This year, the team is planning to improve upon last year's progress with the database, devices, software, and web site. The team will also be applying for the grant for a second year.Two weeks ago, we sent in our proposal...
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
A few days ago we received this comment to our recent post, "Heavy Metal: Amped on Wind Power". For those of you that have not read it here it is below."Any photographs of this event - it sounds awesome. Who were the organizers? I'd love to host one here in Ohio - OU Engineering Prof"As I mentioned in that post I was entirely exhausted so I did not go in to to much detail or take the time to upload pictures but now I would be more than happy to....
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Today was yet another fun packed day. We rolled out of bed, threw on our "Heavy Metal" emblazoned t-shirts and ran outside to catch the bus to the Boston Museum of Science. We did not know exactly what we were in for but only that we were being split in to groups and competing against each other in some sort of competition. It is getting late and I am getting tired so I will get right to the details.30 teams. 30 garbage cans. 1 goal. Each team was to create their own wind turbine using nothing but cardboard, foam sheets, clothes hangers, PVC tubing,...
Friday, June 27, 2008
This morning we had the honor of listening to Sharon C. Ballard, the president and CEO of EnableVentures, Inc. speak about entrepreneurship and the process of turning our ideas into money making products. Though the rest of the Saratoga Springs InvenTeam and I missed part one of the three part session we were lucky to be able to speak to Mrs. Ballard prior to the start of todays events where she caught us up on what we missed including how to make...
Thursday, June 26, 2008
P.S. - Great news! The Garden Consultant is now online and ready to use at www.saratogainventeam.com. Feel free to register for a new account and start letting the Garden Consultant take the guess work out of home gardening today!Once again, thank you everyone so much for your help and support. We could not have done it without y...
Today was the big day for the Saratoga InvenTeam. Not only did we all graduate this morning (other than Tom Hays, our resident Junior) but as soon as we crossed the stage and had our diploma we darted to the team Suburban to head down to MIT.Today we managed to graduate at 10:00 and present at MIT at 2:00 making today the longest and most hectic day in our InvenTeam's history. Now that we are all back in our dorm rooms in the Baker House at MIT we can sit back and relax for a few hours before we wake up tomorrow morning and head back to the Stata...
Monday, June 9, 2008
Shown above is the new housing for our sunlight sensors. This stake was created using Autodesk Inventor and as you can see, the photoresistor is docked in the top of the housing where it can easily measure sunlight. Multiple sensors like this shown will be strung together to allow a user to find out how much sunlight their growing environment receives. Thank you Mr. Frauzenburg for donating your time and your supplies in to making the housing for...
Sunday, June 8, 2008
This weekend, friends and members of the InvenTeam participated in the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. The Saratoga InvenTeam team was able to raise over $400 dollars in donations. We had a great time hanging out, grilling, and walking around the track from 6:00 PM to 7:00 the next morning. Hopefully we have begun a new tradition, and look forward to creating an even bigger team next year. Thanks to everyone who participated or made a ...
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
We have been very busy over the past few weeks, trying to both fund raise for this weekend's Relay for Life, and work on our InvenTeam project. As Friday was rapidly approaching we became nervous about reaching our fundraising goal, and emailed our friends at MIT. Within the hour they had responded, making a very generous donation to our Relay for Life team. We are so grateful for all the donations we have received. This is a great cause that has effected many of us in one way or another, and its great to be able to give back to our community through...
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
Above is an image of the housing we have designed for the Garden Consultant's sonar percolation sensor. Jason Franzenburg, a friend of our teacher Mr. Gallagher and Project Lead the Way teacher at West High School in Davenport, Iowa, was generous enough to print out the housing unit our team designed with his 3D printer. We thank his for his support of our project and for kindly printing this important part for our team on such short notice and on...
This Wednesday we had the pleasure of meeting with Charles Mazza and Craig Cramer of Cornell University's College of Horticulture. Charles Mazza's work as author of "Site Assessment for Gardeners: a step-by-step workbook for better home landscapes and gardens" is the core of all gardening expertise behind the garden consultant so his approval of our automated techniques was vital to the validity of the Garden Consultant.We could not be more happy...
Thursday, May 15, 2008
As a part of our InvenTeam's initiative to pay it forward and give back to our community, we have decided to form our own Relay for Life team. Relay for Life is one of the American Cancer Society's biggest annual fundraisers, bringing communities together across the U.S. to honor cancer survivors, remember those who have been lost to cancer, and raise money and awareness for the fight against cancer. The Saratoga Relay will take place on June 6th and 7th.For more information, or to help us meet our fundraising goal, please check out our Relay team's...
Monday, May 12, 2008
Tonight, with help from Bruce Hodge, we created an Order of Operations diagram to go over all elements of the Garden Consultants inner workings. This diagrams serves as an outline for exactly what the Garden Consultant programming needs to do in order to function properly. We are using it to help tie together loose ends as we get closer to the completion of our project. We thought you might like to check out what were up to and get a better feel...
Hi Everyone -Sorry it has been so long since our last post but we have been very busy as the school year and our grant period come to an end. It is so cool seeing everything come together and come to an end. AP exams are done on Thursday, final projects are being assigned in English, and Prom is on Saturday. Everyday it seems like there is a new Graduation Party invitation waiting for me on Facebook and it is just amazing to think that in just a few weeks we are done with high school. Everyone is finalizing their college plans (Congratulations...
Friday, April 25, 2008
After our presentation for the Board of Education yesterday Saratogian writer Neil Kirby wrote an article about the Garden Consultant and our InvenTeam which was featured in todays paper. Check it out online here or read the article below.Students lead the way on plantsProblem-solving group suggests new methods for better gardeningBy NEIL KIRBY, The SaratogianSARATOGA SPRINGS — Project Lead the Way students may have found a more efficient way to get plants in your garden to thrive through an invention they call the Garden Consultant, which will...
Last night our InvenTeam gave a presentation for the Saratoga Springs City School District Board of Education during their meeting. Our presentation not only discussed the Garden Consultant but also talked about the Project Lead the Way Program at our school and how through the school districts support of engineering education awesome opportunity's have been made available to us.Though we do not have a video of the presentation (the battery died) we will be re-recording the presentation over the next week so it will be online and available for...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Hello All -I hope everyone had a great spring break! Members of the InvenTeam did not get much of a chance to ease back into school work though. This week we started off with staying after school to work on programing and a new presentation from 2:30 to 9:00 which we followed up with practicing our presentation today in class for Project Lead the Way representatives as well as members of The Council (a partnership for excellence in agriculture and education) and CASE (Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education) such as Mr. Brad Schloesser.This...
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Today after school a few Saratoga Springs Project Lead the Way students, including four InvenTeam members, visited Maple Avenue Middle School to talk to some of next year's Freshmen about their first year at high school and the Project Lead the Way program. Invitations went out to the best students the middle school's Technology Education Department had to offer. These bright eighth graders joined us after school for a brief introduction to the five Project Lead the Way courses which we followed up with pizza and a Nintendo Wii Tennis Tournament....
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
This Thursday, Friday, and Saturday two of our InvenTeam members, Duncan Boehle and Stephen Rancour, will be participating in the school musical of "Thoroughly Modern Millie." Duncan is playing the part of Ching Ho and Stephen will be on the running crew. They have been rehearsing the play since January.Our members' participation in so many creative activities obviously renders the stereotype of pocket-protector-clad engineers as false. Singing,...
Saturday, March 22, 2008
After posting our latest video online we have received quite a bit of praise and congratulations on our efforts to collaborate with the Great River InvenTeam. Members of the Lemelson-MIT Program as well as other engineering professionals have complemented the work we have done in helping Great River with the Windamajig. Recently we received this compliment from Merton Flemmings. With his permission we are happy to post this to our blog."I am writing specifically to compliment you on the excellent video you and your team put together for the Great...
Monday, March 17, 2008
Recently, Leigh Estabrooks approached our team with a new challenge: to offer some guidance to another school whose project had some similar research topics as ours. Specifically, their project dealt with using cheap anemometers to record windspeeds at various altitudes. Our recent work with home-made anemometers and data acquisition may prove to be very useful for them. Some of us have taken the past week or two to come up with a detailed possible solution to the Great River School's problem statement (as well as their issue of weather balloons...
Friday, March 14, 2008
Hi, InvenTeam,I wanted to let you know that I am trying to catch up with all the posts you have made since last Fall, as well as look at the videos you created. It might take me a little time to digest all you have done. I'm quite pleased and honored that you have chosen "Site Assessment for Gardeners: a step-by-step workbook for better gardens and landscapes" as your prototype for InvenTeam work.While there is much to digest, I want to follow the...
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Today after school five InvenTeam members and Mr. Gallagher got together to stuff Easter eggs for the Double H Hole in the Woods Ranch. This was our first team outing to complete our plans for community service. We had a great time!Double H is a local camp that provides activities year-round for children dealing with life-threatening illnesses and their families. It is a wonderful organization with a wonderful cause, and we look forward to working with them again.Thanks!Juli...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Hello Everyone,Today we finished up editing out latest video. This movie is a narrated Power Point which we presented to various members of the engineering community on March 28th at RPI after the Lemelson-RPI Student Prize Ceremony. This presentation uses the Engineering Design and Development flow chart to describe the invention process and how we applied the necessary steps to creating the Garden Consultant.As mentioned in the video we will soon be making another short video which will dive deeper into the technology the Garden Consultant uses...
Monday, March 10, 2008
As we are hearing from colleges and planning the next phase of our lives, we want to make sure that we are leaving our project in good hands for the years to come. We have already begun working with some Juniors currently taking Computer Integrated Manufacturing, familiarizing them with our project plans. In an effort to encourage younger students to the path of Engineering and innovation, we are also reaching out to eighth graders. Next Thursday a bunch of the InvenTeam members and some Project Lead the Way teachers are going over to the Middle...
Over the course of our project, our InvenTeam has been extremely fortunate to receive help and advice from professionals in many fields. These individuals have generously donated their time and expertise to benefit our project. The Garden Consultant would not nearly be what it is today without their help. Local inventor Bruce Hodge, of Tech Valley Technologies, spends nearly every Monday night with us at school until around nine at night. We are especially appreciative of his time and effort.When we attended the presentation of the Lemelson-Rensselaer...
Saturday, March 8, 2008
In our recent progress report review Mrs. Estabrooks noted some overlap in our work and the Great River, Minnesota Windamajig project. We have contacted them and are very excited to work with their team. Their advisor, Mr. Michael Flood, replied "You're an impressive team - we appreciate the invite!"We have a great group of Saratoga's Engineering students that have begun working with Great River. We expect to have a presentation for them out by early next week. Stay tuned for more details!Juli...
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Hey Everyone -If you have not already noticed our newest add-on, scroll on down to the bottom of the page and check out InvenTeamTV brought to you by Vimeo.com. This cool new widget gives us an easily accessible and most importantly, a cool looking way to show off out teams latest videos.We will soon be recording our latest presentation (which was given recently at RPI) and putting that up online for you all to check out as well.We are sorry that we were unable to host our videos for a while. We were asked by representatives from the InvenTeam...
Monday, March 3, 2008
For those of you who haven't already heard Brother Aside won Sunday nights Battle of the Bands at Northern Lights. InvenTeam members Jeff Pawlick (Keyboard and Electric Violin) and Mike Bogardus (Bass Guitar) played an awesome show helping their band to victory. They now get to open for a natioanly signed band of their choice in Chicago later this year and move on to the next round in the Battle of the Bands.It was an awesome concert and the group...
For those of you that have been invited or wish to be invited, here is a quick tutorial on how to create posts and comment to our blog. This video explains the basics of Blogger and will have you posting in no time.If you would like a "large screen" version feel free to e-mail me at elliott.poppel@gmail.com and I would be happy to get back to you. Also, if you are having trouble watching this on an Apple Computer I have a version to help with that issue too.Thanks and Enjoy -Elli...
Friday, February 29, 2008
Last Thursday our InvenTeam packed up early and left school for Troy, NY to check out the Lemelson-Rensselaer Student Prize Ceremony. We got to watch Dorothy Lemelson, chair of the Lemelson Foundation, and Alan Cramb, dean of the School of Engineering, award Martin Schubert the $30,000 Lemelson-Rensselaer Student Prize for his work in creating the first ever polarized LED. Not only did we get to hear about all of the really cool inventions all four...
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
On February 28th our InvenTeam has been asked to join in the exciting festivities of the awarding of the Lemelson-Rensselaer Student Prize 2008. This prestigious award is granted to "a Rensselaer senior or graduate student who has created or improved a product or process, applied a technology in a new way, or otherwise demonstrated remarkable inventiveness."Not only are we being given the oppertunity to be part of this awesome award ceremony but afterwards we are meeting with Brian Schulkin, the 2007 winner of the Lemelson-RPI Student Prize.Schulkin...
Monday, February 11, 2008
Today, Steve and I put together a sonar range finder. The device is just a small black cylinder, about a half inch in diameter and a half inch tall with three wires sticking off of it.First, I had to solder the wires onto the device. I'm not very experienced with a soldering iron and I didn't want to set the fire alarm off, so this put a little pressure on me, but I pulled it off!Then, I wired it to our SensorDAQ and made a quick program in LabVIEW. The sonar sensor has an output that displays the measured distance as a multiple of 127 µS (micro-seconds)....
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
The last couple of weeks have been exciting for our team! The database group successfully uploaded a database of 49 plants to the web server using MySQL. The database uses 18 specific fields for each plant, so that we can match plants as closely as possible with soil conditions. Additionally, students working working on Perl and HTML programming successfully created a web page that searches the database for plant-specific information, and will soon be able to add information to the database. They also created a basic interface for the web page...
Monday, February 4, 2008
Hello All -I appologise for the inconveniance but the informational and educational videos we have made have been temporarily taken off-line.We are now learning the ins and outs of copyright laws and by the request of Melissa Makofske, communications director for the Lemelson-MIT Program, we are taking our videos off-line until we recieve permission from the owners of all images we used in our presentations.We have begun contacting the owners of images we have used and all have been more than ok with our use of them. This is just antoher learning...
Saturday, February 2, 2008
About a week ago I sent out e-mails to various contributors to the "Site Assessment for Gardeners" Workbook, asking if they wouldn't mind providing suggestions to improve our digital modifications to the manual site tests described in the workbook. I am pleased to say that I am currently in contact with four of the contributors, and they have all provided invaluable advice on many aspects of our project. Cornell University Professors Dr. Nina Bassuk and Dr. Tammo Steenhuis, Craig Cramer, and retired Cornell University Professor and author of the...
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Over the past few days you may have noticed some serious changes and upgrades to our blog. Along with new videos being posted we have also now paid tribute to our sponsors and added a new poll feature. Yeah, I know the poll is kind of lame. Just give it a whirl. It will be cool to see what the results will be.Otherwise, enjoy checking out the cool new stuff we have added and stay tuned for more to come.- Elli...
Today in class, with help from Mr. Gallaghers wonderful fiancée Miss Holmes, we threw Mr. Gallagher the greatest birthday party ever. The room was decorated with balloon, streamers, and blown up pictures of Mr. Gallagher in middle school all over the room. It could not have been any more gaudy and obnoxious if we tried.Happy Birthday Mr. Gallagher! Thank you so much for being the dedicated and enthusiastic teacher you are. Not only would our InvenTeam...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
VIDEO NOT AVAILABLEFOR INFORMATION SEND E-MAIL TO:michaelpgallagher@gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------When we released our Information/Overview Video we also sent an e-mail to various members of the Cornell Horticulture Department. Up until very recently we had not told them that their packet, "Site Assessment for Gardeners", was the basis for our entire project. Within twenty-four hours we began receiving enthusiastic responses from various gardening experts. We received numerous questions as to what our...
Monday, January 28, 2008
VIDEO NOT AVAILABLEFOR INFORMATION SEND E-MAIL TO:michaelpgallagher@gmail.com---------------------------------------------------------------Above is the Saratoga Springs HS InvenTeams Informational/Overview Video. This video was made to explain our goals to the many people and organizations that are helping us as well as those whose help we would like to enlist. A major part of this video is an explanation of the cornerstone of our project the Cornell "Site Assessment for Gardening" Workbook. As you read in Juliana's previous post we have sent...
I think it is safe to say that at one point in every engineers life he or she plays with Legos. Legos are arguably the greatest toy ever invented and today marks the 50th Anniversary of the Lego brick. In celebration Google got a little creative with their logo, Gizmodo made a really sweet timetable, and even Lego is celebrating with a commemorative Town Plan set based on one of their first sets.Legos were a major part of my childhood as well as...
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Earlier this week I contacted some of the contributors to the Site Assessment for Gardeners Workbook. This is one of the many valuable resources offered by Cornell University that has been very useful to our project. It outlines exactly what a gardener would need to discern about their gardening site in order to properly assess which plants to grow there. In our case, it has shown us exactly what variables our device will need to measure. As we...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
One revolutionary component of the Garden Consultant is the physical device that will acquire data from the soil. Unfortunately, this means we need a physical device to acquire data. In our research, we have found several possibilities for DAQs (Data AcQuisition devices).Mr. Tom White generously donated a Vernier SensorDAQ to help us along. After hearing about our project, Mr. David Vernier donated several sensors including a soil moisture sensor and a temperature probe. These senors were designed for the SensorDAQ and are automatically detected...
Thursday, January 17, 2008
A few days ago Leigh Estabrooks and other people from Lemelson-MIT asked all of the 2007-2008 InvenTeams to answer a few questions regarding our views on the environment and the future of engineering. A few other team members and I had a brief chat about the questions proposed and submitted our response to the blog. With the current state of the environment and the changes that we are seeing in the environment world-wide it is important that we as future engineers consider the effects we have on the environment and work to make the world a better...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
The Saratoga Springs HS InvenTeam would like to thank local internet provider Spa.Net for hosting the server we are using (which was donated by Bruce Hodge). After the recent donation we had to find a service provider to host the server. Thanks to generosity of Spa.Net we will have our server and the Garden Consultant up and running in no time.Thank you so much for your help and support and we look forward to showing you the cool work we are doing...
Thursday, January 10, 2008
The image on the left is from an article in Times Union "People who make a difference" That's Bruce all right!!! He was a feature recipient receiving this dignified distinction for his innovative work with his targeting systems as well as holding several patents. He has helped immensely giving of his time and bringing a vast knowledge and passion for creativity.Bruce Hodge met with us again this last Monday. He taught us to use a program called NoteTab....
Sunday, January 6, 2008
For the past month or so the Saratoga Springs HS InvenTeam has been making use of a web-based collaboration, communication, and file-sharing utility called Central Desktop. I found this program when my G-Mail account happened to have a news feed about it across the top of my inbox. We started using it immediately as an easier and more organized way of sharing files and since then we have begun taking advantage of many of its other features, especially...
This weekend, my social life has been great: I have spent nearly all my time with a friend named MySQL, who happens to be a database programming application. But on the serious side, SQL is an extremely powerful language for database creation. It is exciting to use, since as you learn more about it, the possibilities grow exponentially.Initially, I had trouble completing the software installation on my own. I called Bruce Hodge and he helped me get everything up and running. Once the the set-up was complete he helped me program in the database,...
Thursday, January 3, 2008
With us entering into a fresh New Year our team has decided to try some fresh new management. The way our InvenTeam has been set up is that one Project Manager oversees three Group Leaders who oversee the group members in their task specific groups. This system allows for easy communication and teamwork between people with similar tasks as well as easy flow of communication and information between the three groups.Jeff Pawlick, Juliana Wakeman, and...
When we arrived back from our Holiday Break yesterday we found an awesome gift sitting in our class room. Thank you Mr. Richard Blais and everyone at PLTW for your generous donation of these team shirts as well as your support of our InvenTeam. The polo shirts you donated to our team look great and we cannot wait to proudly sport them at MIT this June as well as at the RPI-Lemelson Award Ceremony next month. The shirts are awesome and we could not...
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
The soil drainage group is searching for new ways to measure soil drainage that we could incorporate into our project. Soil drainage is measured by variety of test presented in the gardening packet. We plan to include this as a automated process in our device. With the use of labview and moister detectors we can make the test more accurate and easi...
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Though the image is a little hard to see what you are looking at is Google Search results for "InvenTeam". Out of 3,050 results the Saratoga Springs HS InvenTeam Blog ranks number two, only behind the official InvenTeam web-site. Obviously we are drawing quite a bit of attention in the InvenTeams Universe and as we get closer to EurekaFest! and people start searching to find out whats going on, its pretty cool to know that were #1.This is a pretty...
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