Percolation Sensor Housing Finished

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...

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Meeting with Charles Mazza & Craig Cramer

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...

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Relay for Life

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...

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Monday Night Meeting

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...

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Coming to a Close

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...

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