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...
Saturday, March 22, 2008
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...
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