Today, Patrick Foss and myself are preparing for a meeting with Maureen Duda, the coordinator for First Night in Saratoga Springs. Our InvenTeam plans to work with other local schools to put together a robotics demonstration during the event. Also, after group working on the college campus security device officially changed the name from The Guardian to Aegis, they began to research Remote Procedure Call which will hopefully being implemented into our program.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
The new Project Lead the Way logo in Austin, Texas.
While working on their projects, all InvenTeam members are preparing to participate in a tutoring program for Project Lead the Way students at the high school. All members will be required to complete 50 hours of tutoring, and this will hopefully increase the younger students' understanding of the material. Also, this will help prepare students for the rigors of the upper level Project Lead the Way courses. Along with the tutoring program, the InvenTeam is also trying to prevent the "brain drain" from occurring at the end of the year. We plan to do this by getting more juniors involved in the Invent Club which will hopefully allow these students to continue on what we have been working on next year.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
The InvenTeam met today with all the focus directed back at their individual projects. Our group working on the campus security system met and decided that they needed to switch the name from "The Guardian" to something else because we researched and realized that there was another security company with a very similar name. Also, the lead programmer, Tom Corona, was able to finish the log in page for the database controlled website. Programming in the future should be a lot easier from now on because the InvenTeam used some of the grant money from General Electric to purchase books about Java, HTML 5, and CSS. The other portion of that grant went to the Shower Temperature Control Unit group which purchased a PLC logic controller that arrived today.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Yesterday, the InvenTeam members that travelled to Austin, Texas for the Project Lead the Way National Symposium arrived home. Overall, the trip was very eventful as Chad, Mackenzie, and myself met with many Project Lead the Way executives, teachers, and board members from other innovative companies. The night before the plane ride home, Saratoga Springs High School placed 3rd in the engineering competition. The objective was to make a children's toy out of available resources that had two mechanical parts that transfered motion between each other. As a prize, we were rewarded with a Fuel Cell Car and a glass trophy to take home along with the plaque honoring our school's presence at the convention. Along with the car and trophies, the InvenTeam members also made many important contacts at the symposium. Many people took up an interest with the EDD project "The Guardian". Chad and myself even received contact information from the Project Lead the Way Affiliate Director, Donald S. Griffith, who said that he had computer science majors at the University of South Carolina that could help with the computer programming of the project. Also, the team received the contact information of Curt Schmidt, the Director of Public Safety in Minneapolis, who also might be able to get the project going.
Friday, November 13, 2009
The last two days here in Austin have been filled with presentations and demonstrations. There are about 800 people here from Project Lead the Way, and about 25 different schools. So far, our group has handed out about 200 brochures about the past successes of the InvenTeam at our High School to Project Lead the Way executives and members of other schools. Of the people that we have talked to, we have gotten about 75 to register for our blog and receive blog updates about what the Saratoga Springs InvenTeam is working on. Also, InvenTeam members working on The Guardian received a huge boost when they met with the Director of Public Safety for Minneapolis. He said that if we emailed him, he would possibly be able to help us get the word out about our college safety device. We also met with representatives of the University of South Carolina who told us to email them because they can have some of their Computer Science majors help us with the programming aspect of our project.
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