Saturday (Oct 20, 2012) meeting

Hello all,

This is a rather late report on what happened on Saturday. We worked on cleaning and re-setting up the hybrid pre-filter. We found that the big red sand filter has a problem, the water doesn't flow well through it. We currently think it's just air caught in the middle, and that it will sort itself out. We also worked on the pump design.
The next meeting will  be on Wednesday, October 24th, at 6:00 PM going until 8:00 PM. This is to check on the filter and hybrid pre-filter, and to discuss some funding issues. We will also discuss making the pump, and if there are parts, start building it. The reason we have to discuss funding is that the MIT grant extension program got canned for this year, so no one from the 2011-2012 Inventeams will be getting a grant. (If I'm wrong on this, please correct me Matt)

Harrison

October Monthly meeting

We had a Monthly meeting tonight at the Grange Hall in Keesville, it was the first one so it was a little disorganized but it turned out well. The people there were:

(youth)
- Harrison
- Michaela
- Alex
- Liam
- Matthew
- Caleb (came in just after the meeting was done)

(Adults)
- Melissa
- Matt
- Marlene
- Lisa
- Mary (for the beginning of the evening)

(others)
- Grace
- Paul
- Mikayla

Michaela and Harrison were the main leaders of the meeting, Matthew took the minutes and Melissa and Matt provided details/entertainment. There were no motions passed, no old business, the new business was out on a piece of paper that Melissa had emailed earlier this week. The meeting went from 7:17-8:04PM (19:17-20:04). That is the meeting in a nutshell..


Harrison

April 26 2012

We built the filter for the biosand filter. We took photos of the entire process.


Members present were the following: Grace, Harrison, Tianze, Michaela, Josh, Michael, Gideon.

Sunday 22 2012 Placing Blogs

We placed all the week's post on the blog site.

April11 2012

In this meeting the team did water testing and glued the 2 tanaluses together. The air was leaking out so they had to be glued. Modifications were made on the website and the comic strip was worked on.



Those preasant at the meeting were the following: Grace, Liam, Joshua, Alex, Jesse, Mat, and Max.

25March 2012

The team met for a meeting on what needs to be done. We have our tee-shirts for MIT. We have an extra $300.00 for water testing from Essex County Soil and Water District. We will be meeting on Sundays at 4:30-8:30 from now on. The CAD Team has the CAD software so they can draw the Biosand Filter on computer. We need to send water samples to Endyne on Monday or Tuesday. The Department of Health sent us a price list of the types of water testing and the cost of each.



The members who were here today were the following: Harrison, Jesse, Vienna, Michael, Liam, Grace, Gideon, Bradley, Sullivan, Mercedes, Austin, Joshua , Michela, Tanze,  Caleb,

Monday 20 February 2012

The video team met to begin editing the photos and videos and took videos of building the biosandfilter.
The accounting team submitted receipts and  balanced the budget.   
The personnel team updated the blog.
The fabrication team added water to the filter.

The Attendance: Harrison, Grace, Tianze, Alex,  and Marshall.

Saturday 18 February 2012

We rebuilt the biosand filter on Sat 18, 2012 at the Peru Fire Department. We sorted and washed the
 rocks being used in the filter.We also assembled the first biosandfilter. We also talked about removing the Ecoli  from the water.

The attendance:Caleb,Jesse,Tianze,Joshua,Liam,Matthew L.,and Grace.

VideoTelecon Meeting Notes

We had a video conference with Justin Lai. the following members were present: Josh B., Michael B., Tianze Z., Jesse M., Vienna A., Alex R., Grace S., Liam S., Gideon S., Caleb C., and Harrison., K.

Caleb gave the fabrication report and MIT asked what we planned to bring to the Eureka Fest. Also MIT asked if we can put documentation up on the web page.

Liam gave the testing report and MIT wanted us to share our progress in the blog.

Harrison did the accounting report. MIT received most of the reports, but needs the reciept from Jan 18 for Adirondack Hardware. Harrison dis not get this one.

Jesse gave the web report. MIT recommended the we put up a google map with member location and places that we are involved in.

Vienna gave the photography report. MIT said we needed more photos and videos for the website.

Alex gave the personel report.

MIT recommendations are:

• more blog entries, 
• we need to put up videos and more photos, 
• work on fundraising for Eureakfest if we need it
  think about how to display the material for the Eureakfest,
• get the system up and running and determine water flow rates. 

Matt mentioned that the team will be presenting at the Champlain Valley Science Fair on April 21, 2012. (Alex R.)

Important Dates for February

Dates for the meetings for Feb.        

Saturday, Feb 18: set up the filter at 5pm

Monday, Feb  20: video editing lesson at 3-5:30pm

Thursday, Feb 23: testing at 2:00pm

(Alex R)

Rules for the VPFD (our new location)

We went to the new place for our laboratory. It is at the Volunteer Peru Fire Department.
Here are the rules for the building.;

1. Stay in main room when you come in and during meetings. (unless you are working in the lab space.)
2. During a fire call stay seated in the main room.
3. DO NOT play with the fire equipment!
4. If we eat anything, we need to throw away our trash.    

That is it for the rules.
(Alex R.)     

What I did

I removed "What's New"  from all old posts in the blog spot. (Alex R.)

What I did

 I got the names of the members who did not want to be on the team anymore. Some were busy or not interested.

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.)

contact list uploaded

I posted the contact list onto the Google documents for the group page.
 It can be found here

(AR)

The tracking document

Hi all, I just want to say that the tracking document is ready, it's a very simple document made by the personnel department. To use it simply go to this link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag4BMFag_mssdENudF9CdXRIRFljVTVJM204VS0xYlE

and look for a task for your department, when you are done the task, blog about it and send an email to bioausableteam@gmail.com to notify the admin that the task in question is done. (HK)

Personnel Department

Initial roster made. Still waiting for information from some members.