Team Communication

Our team finished this massive "Gannt" Chart back in January. It has a calnder of important dats at the top and weekly tasks and goals for the team along the bottom. The tasks and goals are split into hardware, software, and communication/finance. We use sticky notes to post the current week's goals then, once the week is passed, we write what was accomplished that week in the slot. Since our team is rarely all in the same place at the same time this has been a huge help with communication amongst the team!

Complete board

Calender of important dates and deadlines

Weekly task chart (with color coated sticky notes:D)

Napkin Drawings

I recently saw Justin's post on Google+ about napkin sketches and I figured I would share the napkin drawings I got from a little over a week ago. I sat down with Dr. Murray, my calculus professor from the concurrent classes I am taking at a local community college, and discussed various mirror design options. Here are a few of the sketches he provided us with on the back of a napkin and a lunch receipt.

National Honors Society

Noah, Zack, Maria, Dannielle, Clara, Taylor, Paige, Chloe, Victoria, Dion, Albert (not shown in picture)

Eleven of our thirteen team members were admitted into the National Honors Society. They received they're awards during a candlelit dinner held at SODA. We're so proud of everyone for working so hard!

Special Thanks to Mr. Ogas!

The School of Dreams Academy will be paying for the team's airline tickets to and from EurekaFest!
Yayy!

NCWIT Award!

Today all female team members, along with mentor Eric Brown, received an award from NCWIT (National Center for Women and Information Technology). Congratulations to everyone and keep up the good work!

(From Right) Clara Sims, Taylor Torres, Maria Troyer, Eric Brown, Danielle Garcia, Paige Torres, Chloe Grubb

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.