The Self Contained Cooling Group Update

Today we achieved many small goals. We successfully tapped the practice holes we made, so we are fully confident in tapping aluminum. For steel we are not as confident so will have the local hardware store Allerdice do our 3d printed part. We also began the last finishing routine for the simple part. Lastly, we looked into alternate attachment methods while working to finish the program for the one we already designed.

-Post by Josh

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Skype meeting with Berlin, New York

We had a skype meeting with another group of students participating in project lead the way this past Tuesday, February 16. Hopefully this is a sign of what's to come for the project lead the way students attending Saratoga Springs High School, and other high schools. Ideas could be exchanged between students with ease and it would make learning about engineering more comprehensive. Students would also have to learn to be able to speak in front of groups of strangers, which would also teach them important skills for their upcoming careers as engineers.

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Elevator Pitch Review

Today, each of the 3 project groups presented the "elevator pitch" that they've been working on. An elevator pitch is basically a short, 2 minute video describing a problem, their solution, and why their solution would be effective.

John Howe and Aaron Batker Pritzker presented for the computer cooling group, Jeff Hrebenach presented for the firefighter notification app group, and Sam Hyatt and Kelley Florence presented for the 3D printer group.

Besides some minor presentation issues and technical problems, all pitches went relatively well.

Each group will have their pitch revised and finalized by this Friday.

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Makerbot Nearing Completion

The 3D printing group is hard a work nearing completion of the makerbot. Thus far, the frame, as well as the extruding platform have been completed and assembled. We are hoping to finish the step-struder by the end of this week, and complete the makerbot soon after.

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Students to Record Elevator Pitches

EDD students are currently working on creating and recording two-minute videos explaining our projects and the problems they solve. Called "elevator pitches," these short speeches are designed to emulate the kind of arguments we would present to investors if we had to convince them in only the time span covered by an elevator ride. Links to these videos will be provided as soon as they are done.

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A Minor Set Back

Recently, the air conditioning unit in our room had one of its pipe rupture. The room is being fixed and we are working in an alternate classroom. The room should be ready sometime next week.

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