BioAusable Project: ART

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menail tasks

brought in comic and took pictures of neccsary parts. uploaded new pics to the dropbox.
-joshua bassler

We met on Sunday, the sixth of May, at the Peru Fire House. Those who attended where Joshua, Mat, Max, Micheal, Jesse, Liam, Grace, Caleb, Harrison, Sullivan, Alex.

Joshua worked on comic instruct.
Mat worked on the brochure.
Max edited 2 videos- he tried uploading to YouTube, but the system would not take the videos.
Michael edited his section on how a sand filter works.
Jesse sorted photos and gathered in one place. Story boarded the video.
Liam located photos from various computer files.
Caleb worked on technical drawings, and edited the brochure.
Alex went shopping for supplies and did the water testing.
Harrison entered receipts and added water to the filter.
Sullivan collected water and helped Alex test the water.
Grace entered data in the blog and helped prepare dinner.

We purchased additional space on our Dropbox. We also purchased six water bottles for the water testing.
G.S.

Pre-filter Diagram

Friday meeting -4/27/12

On Friday we added water to the filters and pre-filters then measured the turbitity. We also finished the 2D sand filter model and worked on the posters for science fair. We made modifications to the hybrid pre-filter.

Members present were josh, michael, michaela, gideon, tianza, grace and liam.
(MB)

Poster Work

Discussed and designed the posters for the Champlain Science Fair.
Michaela

Sunday March 18 2012

We met at the Peru Fire Department at 4:30 and went till 8:30. After dinner we broke into groups and worked on the project.

Josh worked on drawing a cartoon on how to build a filter and created a technical drawing of the pre-filters.

Michal read about how to use a turbidity meter to make sure we were using the machine properly.

The fabrication team redesigned the pre-filters. We removed the clear pipe tubing and replaced it with a fixed PVC Tantalus. Then we experimented with making a pre-filter with rock and sand with the Tantalus attached. The testing team tested different ways to control the flow of the water.

(Pictures to be posted later)

schematic drawings of biosand prefilter support stand

(J.B)

4 January, Logo Finalized

Art Team found a clipart of a glass of water that was free to use. Here is the finalized logo. If you would like any changes, please let the art team know, by commenting below or emailing. Thank you. (M.R.)

Finalized Logo

29 DECEMBER 2011 Meeting

The BioAusable Team met at Plattsburgh State at our lab and washed sand for the biosand filters. Other teams met and worked on their assignments.
To wash sand, the members first needed to separate the gravel and non-sand particulate matter. They took some sand and placed it in a plastic kitchen food colander. Warm water was added to the sand and the sand was agitated by hand. The sand and water went through the colander into a bucket below and gravel and rocks remained in the colander. The gravel and rocks were placed in a separate bucket. The process was continued until the collection bucket was filled with sand.
Small glass jars, and then later, larger buckets were filled part way with the filtered sand. Warm water was added and a top/lid placed on the jar/bucket. The sand was shaken for about 30 seconds and the water was drained out. The cleaned sand was added to the 55 gallon drum main filter.

We had 8 feed sacks of sand to clean. We cleaned 1.5 bags (feed sacks). It was a so tedious process. The lab sink was only big enough for one pair of workers at at a time so members took turns.
Also at this meeting, while the fabrication team was cleaning sand
Art team: finished work on logo--combining ideas from both prototypes
Personnel: updated the roster, learned some formating skills, learned how to update the MIT site
Video/Photography team: took numerous pictures and videos of the work
Testing team: selected herbs to research for adding water to eliminate e.coli
Writing team: talked about what was needed.
Web team: unveiled the new website

Present at the meeting were:
Caleb, Tianza, Jesse M., Alexandra, Austin, Emma, Liam, Mercedes, Grace, Gideon
(an additional assistance from a member's sibling- Andre)

(posted by G.S.)

30 DECEMBER - LOGO CHANGE, Please share your thoughts.

Members of the art team met on 29 December to finalize the logo design. The art team decided on a design like this:

See the copyright mark in the glass?

But a problem came up. Members of the art team had a hard time finding images that were not copyrighted to be used in the logo (see the lettering inside the glass). So a new design, using ideas from the originals was created that uses a non-copyrighted picture. Please share your thoughts Emma and the rest of the BioAusable team. Austin was thinking the below logo options look more mature (less "kid-like"). Mercedes liked the top logo idea with the puddle (but we would have to find or draw a not copyrighted image to use). Please share your thoughts by commenting below. Thank you. (M.R.)

OPTION A

OPTION B

OPTION C - This one was liked best by Austin R..

LOGO Decision and TShirt Selection

At the meeting last night, we discussed the logo. The team likes the logo with the water glass pouring water. They would like to use the lettering "look" from the water faucet option.

I need the Art team to get together (email wise) and coordinate the final logo and post it. You should have each others emails on the team roster that the Personnel department sent out.

We talked about team shirt colors. Since dark blue is no longer an option, (White, cool grey, light blue, red) the team decided on RED shirts. (Think Cornell colors and not TARGET!) We will double check with everyone on the Jan 5 meeting. (MIT video conference). Art team, can you make sure the colors will work on a RED shirt and also have a back up set of colors for the cool gray option. (Probable back up--white is pretty impractical!) (admin)

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