18.11. Chitchat with Dr. Camarda

Hey!
Tonight our bioMARS had a chance to speak with Dr. Charles Camarda, as he is one of our main specialists and teachers during this Epic Challenge. Of course we had talked with him previously, but to have a personal chat to tell about our recent work, and to ask more specific questions was very nice.

<- Here are our faces right before starting the chat. The photo is blurry because the photographer must've been shaky from excitement. ;)

After that we had a Q&A with Space Veggies, whose mission a few years back was very similar to our goals. They kindly answered our questions and were also interested in our challenge and progress.

Bye now!

11.11. Q&A

Hey guys!

This Wednesday was partly a Q&A with ISRU expert Mr. Garrett Carman, and partly discussing about our communal knowledge on plant growing and food properties.

ISRU stands for "In Situ Resource Utilization", and that means making what we need from where we are and what we can take from there, for example, on Mars. We talked about creating energy and material, like glass fibre from the regolith or soil. Thank you, Mr. Carman, for answering our questions!

We will now make lessons for each other considering our challenge, so everyone learns from everyone and in the end everyone knows everything. ; )

4.11. Deep (Mars) diving

Hello!
It's been a long day, it's 8:30 pm again, and we started leaving the lecture. Only the girls stayed to take a picture for you guys to see our tired but happy faces.

What is our agenda now? In November we will dive deeper in our specific challenge (of growing food on Mars) and actually we had a nice way of rephrasing that to make our new problem:

0. “To develop an Earth-independent Food Production Capacity Increasing System”

0. In short, EFPCIS.

0. This is beautiful, we'll go with this one. 

0. Also, check our Facebook-page for our upcoming ABC's!

3.11. Sauna

Hey! Tonight our team and the Team Red Sandbox, were invited to sauna by our online working/ learning environment developer, Arcusys! 

The night also included us talking about the online environment, and together making it more suitable for our needs. For more information about the company, visit their site here.

NOW that is November already, we start focusing on our specific challenges, and that means reading a ton of articles and information. We try to keep you updated, thanks for the support! :)

Remember to stay warm in the cold Finnish autumn (or if you're not from Finland, still, go to a sauna if you can, really)!