Wednesday, December 16, 2015

16.12. One hundred concepts?!


HEY, tonight we tried to categorise and choose good concepts from ~100 different ones. That's not too easy, but you know what, we're not stupid either. 
We will continue our evaluating process, and choose the best combinations from everyones ideas, which we can prototype and develop even further in 2016. 

However, tonight was the last official meeting of 2015, so it's individual work for the rest of the year. We will still post some holiday cheers in here, and in our Facebook!

Thanks, bye for now! :) 

Monday, December 14, 2015

Pre-Christmas party Bowling!

Hey, and happy early Christmas to us! 

BioMARS and Team Red Sandbox teamed up and went bowling together, to a local bowling bar called "Cosmic" (Get it? Working with NASA? Mars? Cosmic?). It's important to relax between working on a difficult challenge and studying hard, and what better way than with the great people you also work with?


Our bowlers were prepared for the black light, which made white clothes glow!
Hely, Kristina, and Ana making the pins scared for their lives :)

Perhaps Joni is giving Maria some tips? :)

There were no winners or losers, but we all had a great time! Thank you, Team Red Sandbox, let's not let this be the last time :)


Thursday, December 10, 2015

9.12. Concepts here, concepts there


Hey!
So we've been individually coming up with greenhouse/ food growing concepts for the past week, and used yesterday to sharing our concept-ideas. Then we decided to check out a few of those more deeply, and used the Triz40-website and 39 parameters related to that. 

It all seemed quite complex at first, but once we tried it, it started to make sense, and it's a great way to develop our concepts further. Next time we'll have even more concepts to develop. 

Work in progress:


Until next time, dear readers!

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Interviewed for the internet

Hello, a brief announcement;
Karelia UAS second year students interviewed one of our team member, Maria, about our project.

Check our the video interview HERE.
(The site is in finnish, the interview is partly in english/finnish)

Also, remember to follow our ABC's in our Facebook!

Thanks for following :)


Thursday, December 3, 2015

2.12. Another Q&A, yeah!

Hey!

Today we had a NASA plant physiologist, Dr. Raymond Wheeler, tell us about plant growth experiments and requirements that we should take into account while designing a new concept. We had a lot of specific questions for him considering our challenge, and his answers will help us a lot. 

Listening to Dr. Wheeler intensively.
We have to think about small-scale testing, look through previous designs and researches, before deciding anything. Luckily we have December and January for this!

Here we are, a little smarter than we were before. Can you spot all 8 bioMARTIANS that were there? ;)
Until next time, thanks for reading!

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

1.12. Firefighters or astronauts?

 Hello!

Our dark snowless December started off with a visit to the North Karelia Rescue Department, located in Joensuu, and we were lucky enough to learn about the physical requirements of fire fighters, smoke divers, and rescue personnel.

(Surprisingly similarly sounding to astronaut-training.)

We also got very important information about communication within a big organisation, when there's no time to spare.

Our presenter, Jani Kareinen (in the right picture), also showed the firetrucks and the personnels gym to us.
Most of us are now wondering if we're also able to do over 40 squats with 45 kg on our back, although that's probably impossible.

These guys handle nearly 4000 rescue missions in a year, and not even one of them includes that milk you forget in the fridge and it turns bad. They don't have time to rescue everything, but it's surely nice to have them when we really need!