Entry 9: Meeting with group members

23 May 2012

Today, the entire group sat down to meet up once again. This meeting was for us to discuss on the progress on finding for the external help as well as for us to set down our work plans for the month of June, which is extremely crucial to the project.

Regarding the progress on finding and getting an external help, Keven and Gordon has been unable to get any help as they do not have any contacts in this area. While Ching Kai Xiang is currently speaking to Frankie, to see whether he is interested in helping us out.

As for the workplan during the June they are as follow:

Details	Due by	Action by
External help found	28/05/2012	All
Confirmation of Prototype	04/05/2012	All
Creation of website	10/06/2012	Keven Loo
Sourcing of materials	11/06/2012	All
Creation of prototype	15/06/2012	All

While here are the confirmed dates for meeting with our Mentor:

Date	Time	Action by
29 May 2012	1400 - 1500 / 1500 - 1600	Ching, Keven
5 June 2012	1400 -  1500 / 1500 - 1600	Ching, Keven
7 June 2012	1400 – 1500 / 1500 - 1600	All
12 June 2012	1400 – 1500 / 1500 - 1600	All

The reason as to why we aim to complete the core of our project during the June Holidays was because it would be when most of us are free and are thus able to commit ourselves to the project as compared to when school reopens where we will have other commitments such as our academics and CCAs.

Entry 8: Meeting with Mentor (5)

8 May 2012

Today, the entire group met up within the school library to have a group meeting where we mainly discussed the idea of the "table" aquaponics set up for our invention.

As mentioned previously, there are quite a bit of advantages with regards to a "table" aquaponics set up for our invention, such as this set up being able to provide optimum support for the leca tray, reducing the storage space and allow for more customisation to the set up as compared to previous designs. However, the entire group had uncertainties as this new design could just simply be a table, with the set ups placed above and below it.

Thus we discussed about further modifications could be made, to further improve this design as well as to make it not just a table put together with that of the aquaponics system. After much discussion, we have decided that for this design, instead of just putting the tray of leca at the top and the fish tank at the bottom with the tubing for the system running all over the place, we will drill holes into the top of the table to allow the tubing to pass through, such that it seems neat and presentable. Furthermore, this also empties up the rest of the table space for things to be placed on. This thus brings another additional plus point to this design where it allows for items to be stored on it. This itself is already a modification made to the table, which value adds our prototype.

At this time, we already had a table in mind that we could use and the next step was to start searching for external help who is able to advice us further as to whether this idea was feasible.