Hello. Just giving everyone who reads this a quick status update. Since our last major blog updates, the BioAusable team has experienced a whole year of exciting new events. Now, with the 2013-14 year approaching, bringing both new members and new challenges for the team to face, we have decided that the blog could do with some layout and design updates.
Most of these changes are aesthetic in nature, such as the new blue skin and the updating/archiving of old or obsolete blog sections. We are also planning to update the "Home" page, to make the aims of the project more clear immediately and to improve site navigation. Most of these changes will slowly be rolled out over the next few days.
Any feedback/suggestions from blog readers and team members on the progress and look of the updated blog at this stage is appreciated.
~Matthew
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Updated Header in Blog
The header was updated to show the team logo with the Lemelson InventTeams logo, the 4H logo and the Cooperative Extension 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.)
Website
The website (https://sites.google.com/site/bioausableteam/) has been made so that you can post all progress under your team tab and announcements. All you have to do is click the desired heading then post your comment and post your comment in the announcement tab for every one to see! I would also appreciate it if every one would give suggestions for the website for future development.
Thank you,
Jesse
Thank you,
Jesse
Website
Our new website is up. You can find it at https://sites.google.com/site/bioausableteam/
please give suggestions on what to add. (J.M)
please give suggestions on what to add. (J.M)
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