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June - Pre-season
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What Learned at FLL World Festival
HGT Meeting, identified top five items that we want to adapt and learn this season
1. Presentation style (something with action is more fun to watch ex.musical)-14
2. Being more enthusiastic, funny and interacting more- 10
3. Using visuals to show your research (poster, uniformed color) - 9
4. Having good content and detailed research-4 -
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July - Pre-season
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Interview - Parker Solar Probe Pre-Launch Event
The team learned about our solar system and had fun!
The biggest gain is the team met with NASA Solar System Ambassador, Mr. Matthew Hewes, who is very supportive of our FLL activity and has agreed to be our science consultant! -
What Makes a Project Great?
HGT Meeting - Coach Nancy gave the presentation and the team had a great discussion and learned:
1. Solution for a small issue which impacts a lot of people
2. Work side by side with experts
3. Interview professionals from different fields
4. Project Notebook
5. Different versions of the prototype showing how the research developed -
Into Orbit Challenge Released!
Project Challenge:
Identify a human physical or social problem faced during long duration space exploration within our Sun’s solar system and propose a solution -
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August - Into Orbit!!!
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Field Trip - NASA Ames Research Center
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Learning about Space Travel Fundamentals & Identifying Interests
HGT Meeting - Learning and sharing basic knowledge of space travel, discuss about potential problems to solve, and identifying areas of interests for each turtles -
Share Research solutions and Narrow Down Interests
HGT Meeting - Each turtle looked to find solutions for the problem in his interested areas, then turtles come back to share their findings and narrow down the potential project options. -
Interview with the Astronomer and share project ideas
Shared all of our project ideas, and Mr. Burress provided us his feedbacks. -
Share Your Project Proposals
HGT Meeting - Each turtle presented his project proposal including problem, solution and Experiment Design
Mentor Karina: sinuses get clogged due to no gravity
Andrew: AI and Sleep issues
Mason: SLEEP and MUSHROOM BRICK
Leo: Sleep/health issue
Aiden: Mushroom brick and AI
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Interview with Mr. John Cumbers - Founder of Synbiobeta and Former NASA Synthetic Biologist
As a founder of the Synbiobeta, Mr. Cumbers knows the owner of Ecovative, the producer of mushroom materials. We might be connected to the field top manufacture and researcher! -
Decision Making on Team Project: Mushroom or AI?
HGT Meeting - Mushroom group and AI group both presented their project proposals, and the team reached the decision on proceeding with Mycelium project. -
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September - Ideas!
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Finalize Team Mycelium Mission and Timeline
HGT Meeting - Deeper discussion of team's problem statement and proposed solution. Planned project timeline. -
Interview Mycelium Expert Ms. Anja Scholze
Learning and discussing Mycelium from the field expert. -
Experimental Design Brainstorming
HGT Meeting - The team brainstormed on experimental ideas that help us understand the unknowns of the mycelium proposal. We found the key is to better understand Mars condition and mycelium growth/making condition. -
Sharing Experiment Design/Prototypes with NASA Ambassador Mr. Hews
Team got many ideas of how to design and conduct our mycelium experiments. -
Refine Experimental Designs
HGT Meeting - Team finalized two group of experiments:
1. Testing mushroom growth under Mars condition - light, banana peel, unsterile food waste.
2. Testing mycelium as the building material on Mars - radiation, temperature and air insulation. -
Sharing Project with Dr. Holly Franz
Learned another proposal of human habitat on Mars - underground tunnel. -
Refine Experiment Prototypes
HGT Meeting - Temperature insulation and Radiation blocking experiment prototypes are proposed to the team. -
Sharing at Synbiobeta Summit
Interviewed the founders of EcoVative, the company that first created mycelium brick, and shared our project proposals with them. -
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October - Experiment!
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Air Insulation Experiment is Cut!
HGT Meeting - Sharing with Field Experts Saved Time for HGT! Team found out Ecovative already tested that Mycelium does not provide air insulation from their Synbiobeta Summit sharing. The team decided no need to proceed this experiment. -
Analyze Mycelium Blocking Radiation Experiment Result
HGT Meeting - Our teammates worked side by side with Dr. Joe Liang. Team reviewed the experiment results and concluded that Mycelium can block radiation to certain degree. -
Experiment Presentations
HGT meeting - Teammates present the experiments they conducted to the team, and we discussed on what do the results mean. -
Refine and Practice Skit
The teammates built the skit background board, and practiced the performance -
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November - Competition!
