Parent Fundraising Meeting

The parents that attended were Rita Garcia, Anna Moya Troyer, Toma Shaver, and Ann McCartney. Clara and Danielle (myself) were present at the meeting. The following ideas were discussed: a math and science night, car wash, candy apple sales, chocolate sales, hot dog sales at tracker supply, coffee sales, selling hot chocolate at school with hot dogs, a movie night, and a Dion's Night.

With the discussion of ideas, the topic of Isotopes Fundraising during the summer came into the conversation. It was briefly talked about how the student's earnings were going into the fundraising collection. The final decisions were made on what fundraising was going to be done and by who.

(Subject to change)
Donation Letter- Ann McCartney
Movie Night- Rita Garcia
Dion's night- Anna Moya Troyer
Chocolate sales- Ann McCartney
Hot Chocolate Sales- Clara Sims, Danielle Garcia, and Toma Shaver

Official Dates of future fundraisers will be posted in the near future.

Ann, Clara, Rita, Anna discussing ideas

Anna sharing an opinion on the chocolate sales 

Rita suggesting the candy sales

Danielle sharing an idea about the Movie Night

Toma asking about the car wash taking place at Tracker Supply

 

Presentation at ACME Worldwide

Today, a few of the members of the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam presented to the project manager and two engineers at ACME Worldwide in Albuquerque.

Chloe showing the Lemelson-MIT video.

Maria discussing the Police ALERT system.

Looking at the project outline.

Zack and Chloe talking about the technical aspects of the invention.

Thank you cards

Just finished our thank you cards so sponsors should be expecting them soon! We really appreciate everything everything everyone has done for us!

Another Sunday Night at Quelab

Students worked at Quelab tonight - mostly on coding.  Trey, a first time visitor to Quelab, helped Zack and Albert out with some programming issues. 

Adric and JT talked to the team about an idea for making mirror prototypes.  The idea is to have a cone-shaped template made on a 3D printer at Quelab.  Then use it as a mold for vacuum forming a plastic piece.  This plastic piece would be used as a mirror once it was coated.  We might try to do this on Tuesday night.  The next openhack night at Quelab. 

Feedback and Comments

Here are just some of the great feedback and comments from Mid-Grant Review. We hope to impliment the suggestions then host another Technical Review session closer to EurekaFest.

And one of our favorites, Thanks Toby! 

InvenTeam member attend Patent Workshop at TVC

Most of SODA InvenTeam members were able to attend a patent workshop at Technology Ventures Corporation today.  Bruce M. Winchel did a fantastic non-stop, four-hour presentation on how to write your own patent application.

SODA students at TVC patent workshop.

After workshop lunch at Que Huong.

MGR Photo Slideshow

We just finished putting together a slideshow of the pictures from the Mid-Grant Review!

Check it out:

SODA InvenTeam MGR - slideshow

We will be editing the video footage and posting those as soon as possible.