Saturday, April 8, 2017

April 7th- 101 Check-Ins; Quarter 4 Outline

Reviewed visit to Greentown Labs.

Need self-evaluation sheets from everyone by the end of today- need evidence to support your evaluations.




It is now the start of Term 4-
  • Read Term 4 sheets
  • Need to continue your Core 4 project, or, if done
  • Scientific Inquiry Project
You have 2 weeks to come up with a proposal-
  • 6 minute presentation
  • What?--What are you going to investigate?
  • So What? Impact Goals
  • Now What? What are your specific steps?
Come up with a timeline for the next 6 weeks.

Will produce a scientific poster on your project at the end of Term 4.

If you are continuing with the Core 4--what are you personally going to do? 
i.e. Journal articles you will read, what will you build or do?

If you are stuck-- sources include asking Dr. T, Pinterest, Instructables, TED talks.

Proposal action starts May 4th.

Group Check-Ins:

Algae Group:

The algae group restarted a number of bioreactor bottles,  with new manifolds for aeration and new airstones.

Improved aeration and air stones, and not over-feeding, has improved growth significantly.





The Algae group will continue working with the algae project- pursue harvesting, oil/lipid extraction, etc.

Questions/Next steps-- Could you keep the algae alive over the summer?

Bikes Group:

Will be working to stabilize the bike frame, and investigating ways to produce continuous power output.

Generator charges battery using solar panel controller( Vellaman 80L4UCN2)- automatically switches load to battery when charged.


Left 2 terminals: 12V to inverter( Cobra CPI 480 DC to Ac Inverter)

Center 2 terminals connected to 12V gel-cell battery

Terminals 5 and 7 connected to generator or to solar cells



Materials Group:

Moving on to mycelium project. Soaked straw substrate in Hydrogen Peroxide to sterilize; will inoculate with mycelium spores.



Began building prototype for rooftop garden system.



Aquaponics Group-

Have been replacing plants, adding supports to pea plants; working on building a refilling station,
will begin planning temperature control system.



May move on to bikes. May get fish for system.


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