Sunday, January 31, 2016

1.2. Survey for you!

Hello, our dear readers!

We, bioMARTIANS, are thinking about including insects in the Mars-habitat menú, and built up a survey about that. Would you be ready to try food made of insects?

If you'd like, please answer our little survey HERE (Link opens Google Docs)
If you're located in the Finland, Joensuu -area, you might get a chance of actually eating insects.

Thank You so much for contributing to science! ;)


Thursday, January 21, 2016

20.1. T(eam)-shirts are here!

Hey everyone!
We are tributing our (so far) successful journey to science with our official T-shirts, and as January has boosted us to experiment designs, and more detailed concepts, it's nice to be identified as a team, rather than just individuals.

We are bioMARS!

Currently we're comparing different types of systems used to grow food, and figuring the best concepts from our own ideas.

We're investigating the wide web for people who've done it before us, so feel free to leave us a link to an experiment on food-growing, if you know some! :)


Wednesday, January 13, 2016

2016: Back to business!

Hey!
Tonight was our first official meeting of 2016, and now that we're roughly halfway through our time of the Epic Challenge Joensuu (we're scheduled to finnish in May), we will begin experimenting with our selected concepts for food growing units, and prototyping!

As we have come up with more than a hundred concepts, now each team member will try to make a testing experiment of two promising concepts, and provide the rest of the team with information on those concepts, so it will come easier to get rid of bad concepts.

Our journey has concentrated more on theory up till now, but things are about to get more exciting once the prototyping phase begins! Thanks for following us also on Facebook!

Until next time!