Minutes - Non Mentor Meeting 4/26

Hey guys,

Here's the minutes from our non mentor meeting from Tuesday night.

UPDATES:

Editing team – Quint, Matt, Kelly and young have editing done by Thursday's meeting

All of the building materials have been purchased, and buildling will be occurring at Andrew’s place

Timeline for PCM testing : The lab for testing the PCM is extremely busy. Quint is going to see if he can conduct testing during the night.

For those who are going to be in or around campus during the summer, a meeting time needs to be decided upon.

Summer goals:

· Complete prototype building

· Concept paper – near final draft completed

· Complete PCM testing (early summer)

· Marketing plans - find a new template by exams

· First draft by May 26^th (marketing plan)

· Second draft by June 9^th (marketing plan)

· Submit to Dr. shah -draft by june 23 (marketing plan)

· Final draft – July 14^th (marketing plan)

Concept paper

· First draft of concept paper –June 1^st

· Dr. Shah for edits- June 15^th

· Final draft- August 15^th

As for our Thesis, it will be focused on during next semester.

-Andrew

Thesis Editing Party at Amina's

Hey Team Fresh

Quint, Young, Amina and myself, collectively known as the first round editing team,have spent the last 2 hours wrestling our thesis google doc into something readable. We made a lot of comments and found some holes, but most of it makes sense. It would be nice for the team to take a look at the google doc before the meeting tomorrow!

Thanks Amina for the M&M's!

-Matt

Undergraduate Research Day Extravaganza

Today was the Undergraduate Research Day!

I went to Undergraduate Research Day to support our fellow teammates presenting our project to the public. There were definitely some fascinating projects going on around campus, and I got to learn more about our fellow Gemstone colleagues and their progress. Team Green Justice was close to where we were stationed, so I went to say hi. To briefly explain their project, they are evaluating the impact of changing the trash pickup from twice a week to once a week in Hyattsville. It's an interesting topic and I'm sure they've put in a lot of work into their research. I came across another Gemstone project while wandering around. This research was to improve the effectiveness of the Maryland sex offender registry. I couldn't help but read more about the research because it was such a unique research idea. Last but not least, there was a psychology research about domestic violence. The researched wanted to determine if the domestic violence courses here at the university changed the students' opinons and attitudes.

Even though there lots of cool research today, I couldn't help but feel that our project is still the coolest and the freshest. Maybe I'm a little bit biased though.

If you didn't get a chance to check out today, there's always next year!

- Young

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Trip to Home Depot

So this weekend, I rented a van from motorpool for a different club. I forced Foo to wake up and come with me to Home Depot. Somehow, we were able to fold down the seats and fit the 8 x 4 ft boards into the van at the expense of a seat for Foo. So with boards over my head and Foo crouched on the ground in the back, we made it to Courtyards and stored the boards and Liquidnails in his place. We are going to transfer all supplies to courtyards and start building next week!


-Sahil

It's that time of the semester!!!

Our semesterly social has finally arrived!!

The plan, you ask?

On Saturday, April 30th, 2011, we'll be dining at Ledo's Restaurant on Knox Road at 6:00pm, and at around 7:00pm, we'll be leaving for Memorial Chapel where we will go see the Faux Paz Spring Show! (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=191310897580915)

Get ready for a FRESH night...

14 hours until Undergraduate Research Day,
Amina and Divya

Using Google Maps to Visualize the Literature on Vaccine Freezing

As my final project for that same Digital Communication class I'm taking, I decided to make a Google Earth map of the studies we've looked at demonstrated vaccine freezing in transport and storage in the cold chain. I've been wrapped up with MCAT studying, so I keep forgetting to bring it up during our meetings, so thought I would link it here for our whole community to see!

What better way to get a grasp on what data is out there than map it out?

Concept: Since many of the reports are from developing countries, and are of variable quality, it is important to focus on peer-reviewed studies and technical reports from trusted organizations like USAID. Each marker on the map will be accompanied by a link to the study, an abstract if available, and important findings (percentage of freezing in transport/in storage, unit of analysis). I want to have a clean format so that the
information doesn’t overwhelm the audience. I think this project is very important to researchers, policy-makers, and even the public because it will demonstrate what parts of the world may be neglected. In addition, it will empower the audience to readily access the research in one window rather than navigating Pubmed or relying on media reports.

Here it is so far!


View Cold Chain Findings Around the World in a larger map






~Veena