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Alec - ale216@lehigh.edu
Aly - ajl216@lehigh.edu
Ben - bmc217@lehigh.edu
Tori - vaw212@lehigh.edu

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Day 26-28

Friday turned into a bust, and we ended up getting no work done. But, since this is a fellowship, we are learning things. We are learning that some days, you just can't get anything done, and you need to take a break. So that's what we did.

Monday we go our act together a bit . We had four daily deliverables; Written Report with Cost, Susan version 1.0 talking to Xively, Define Project Deliverables, and Order things.

The Project Deliverables included SUSAN -- with full documentation, a Written Report including interested parties, costs, options, and suggestion models. We had to estimate every cost we thought we would need, and then we have to email it to Delicia to get it looked at and approved, and Next Steps, which have yet to be determined, but will include everything for the Fall Semester.

We left SUSAN running overnight Monday into Tuesday, connected to Xively, and she worked. She stayed connected to the internet sending data. Our soil moisture sensors were in cups of dirt, and our temperature sensor was out. We connected two soil moisture probes, and three temperature sensors, but only got readings from two of the temperature sensors and both soil ones.

The written report is looking good, it's approximately 20 pages long, even has a table of contents. boom. It includes every possible aspect of a business plan for the composting site, short term and long.

We had a phone interview yesterday, our second one, with a guy named Nate who works for a scientific magazine. He's super interested in our project, which is awesome. We also had someone come in and film us. Not exactly sure about what, but she filmed us doing things like writing on our board and everyday stuff.  We are receiving some pretty positive publicity, which might help us in our final case.

My job today is to blog (hi) and get us a website started that isn't through blogger, ie. go daddy or one
Web Hosting. Not sure exactly what I'm going to do yet, but Alec has a few things in mind for me to do.

The rest of the group went down to Rathbone Dining Hall to pick up some food waste so we can increase our volume. I'm assuming we will be doing more composting today, as well as working on printing a 3D model body for SUSAN, and finalizing our working draft report.

Lots of work to do, and we are done for the summer on next Thursday, so lots of planning is needed still.

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