With our final presentation rapidly approaching, team PivoRest has been making modifications to our final powerpoint and studying all of the information so that we know it like the back of our hands. At this point all that is left on the armrest is the final assembly and making sure everything is fit to our standards.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
We realized that our PowerPoint had too much information and that our presentation was too long. We then proceeded to cut out useless parts of the presentation and shorten it all together. As far as the website goes, we are now working on coding a small pop-up to appear every time a search yielded no results, telling the user that their search will go into consideration and a video will be made of it. Another thing that is finishing up is the cross-testing, which will be completed in a few days.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
In the closing steps of our project, we are mostly working on the presentation piece of the project. We are refining and practicing presentation in front of the class. As for the final product, we are waiting for the machined parts to come in. Once we get these, we can construct our final product, and start taking it to test on patients.
As a group we have been working on not only the completion of our presentations for June 4th but the style and flow of them. For example, we have been collaborating with the other groups to make sure that we have similar order and content so that overall the presentation for the whole class will go smoothly. Also we have been trying to become as familiar as possible with our presentation so that we know it inside and out. Lastly, we want to be finished up by the end of the week so that we have enough time to perfect our presentation.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
We are finalizing the website and adding all of our cross checked videos. People are starting to review videos for community service hours so we have to start cross checking those videos for posting. The final power point is coming along nicely. We had a hiccup this morning with the search function of our website but that seems to fixed now.
Monday, May 13, 2013
The time has come to wrap everything up into a nice little bundle. We need to display an entire years work into a simple presentation. We are making a culmination report that contains all of our monthly progress reports into a detailed description of all our work. For the more grand details we are making a PowerPoint to explain and showoff our project and the direction for the future.
Today during class Mr. Gallagher asked each group what they wanted to do after this year with the project we are working on. Our group wants to sell our idea, maybe get into a licensing agreement or something similar. We were originally thinking about patenting our idea but then we decided it might be better to go a different route. We are working on an email we wanted to send to a couple companies and see how things go from there. Also during class we worked on our last progress report going over everything including what we want to do in the future with our idea. While we are working on this we are also putting together our final presentation. We are trying to make our presentation as perfect as we possibly can and not miss key details. We are continuing to work on the presentation during class and getting feedback from everyone.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Today in class we finished up a couple of loose ends
on the backpack. One of those loose ends was putting the bar onto the final
designed backpack. Tom brought in the finished bar and then Eric and Connor
sewed it onto the backpack. It was put on the backpack correctly and it now
looks like the finished version that we have been waiting for. Also, Brian and
Seth continued work on the presentation. We then all got back together and
reviewed over the changes that have been made.
As we focus our attention on cross-checking to verify the effectiveness of our rubric and work on our final presentation, we are working on an efficient way for outside volunteers to submit data. A Google docs system was developed for this purpose, and using an excel spreadsheet template, we were prepared to create a separate document for each volunteer to record data in. However, we have been exploring what we can do with the website itself for that, and have created a short quiz page that can be used to submit a reviewed video. Once we figure out an effective way to organize such data, we expect this to be an easier method of compiling volunteer data.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Thursday, May 2, 2013
The World Health Organization deemed 2011-2020 the Decade of Action for Road Safety, and noted that road traffic injuries are one of the top three leading causes of death for ages 5-44 in developing countries. In 2004, road traffic injuries resulted in more than 1.27 million deaths, which is almost equal to the number of deaths caused by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined.
Recently, Winnie, the Communications Lead for the NNHS InvenTeam, gave a speech at Natick High School concerning how we, the NNHS InvenTeam, are dealing with this issue. Please watch the video to get a sense of the urgency of this Decade of Action.
To create awareness, we would like this message to go viral. After you watch the video, please spread the word by forwarding this message to as many of your family, friends, and associates: http://nnhsinventeam.com/
Each time someone watches the video, we have a better chance of creating awareness around the world.
Today we set up how other students could review videos to receive community service hours. We told them to email us with their information and then we can get them all set up and ready to review videos with our rubric. Of course every approved video will be cross checked, but this will increase our video output. We are also working on a way for people to review videos through our website using google app engine. Our intent is that one day we will no longer have to review videos and the website can sort of fill itself with videos.
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