Project Meeting 5: Powerpoint Slides (With teacher mentor)

Date: 22^th February 2011

Time: 1425-1440

Venue: Outside Staffroom

Members : Gary, Hao Yu, Boning(CCA), Akira(CCA)

Mentored by: Teacher Mentor

Discussion and consultation on Prelims PowerPoint Presentation

No.	Discussed
1	Slide 1-Addressing of Group Members and Introduction of Project ·        To add in an image of the PlantPlat in the first slide
2	Entering scenes? ·         Is there any deas to attract audiences’ attention?
3	Need of a Plant Pot Plate ·        Explain clearly why roots need to breathe (Include some pictures) ·        State an example (e.g. Mangrove tress)
4.	Disadvantages of Plant Pot Plate ·        Lifting the pot is inconvenient. How so? à Heavy, back straining ·        Dengue Fever Show related news articles showing that such mosquitoes breeding areas can cause outbreak of dengue.  ·        Some types of plant pot 'dish' is inconvenient because it is difficult to lift the plant pot
5.	Structure of Plant Plat ·        Explain how the drawer works, in details, how the water is emptied (animations)
6.	Advantages of Plant Plat ·        Explain how it can be more convenient ·        How can it reduce dengue cases ·        In what way is it more convenient to empty it as compared to plant pot dish
7.	Others ·        Consider more aesthetic designs (interest of the consumers are very important) ·        Prelims à Show our basic idea (intended product), advantages and how it is better than plant pot plate (state evidences) ·        Semi-finals à  Prototype must be done, choose the right materials

 During this meeting, our teacher mentor gave us many useful tips for improving our Powerpoint slides. We then continued to work hard on the slides and gather more relevant information to include in the slides. Our group then think of more ideas to improve our presentation.

Task allocations:

Haoyu: Work on slides

Akira: Work on scripts

Boning and Gary: Search for related information or articles

Project Meeting 4: Literature Review

Date: 14^th February 2011

Time: 1520-1530

Venue: Classroom

Members : Hao Yu, Gary, Boning, Akira

No.

Discussed

1

Literature Review ·         Research on cases of dengue fever in Singapore and what control and preventions have been done by the government ·         Research on similar inventions – Green and Environmental inventions ·         Research on the percentage of plant-keepers and the inconvenience of keeping the plants (Idea of survey abolished--too troublesome and may not recieve very accurate results)

Tasks

Haoyu – Research on Dengue Fever and Green inventions (books resources)

Boning – Research on Dengue Fever and Surveys (internet resources)

Gary – Research on Green inventions and Surveys

Akira – Compile and Create Presentation slides


The main topic of this discussion is to research for important pieces of information to explain the underlying problem of our project and how we are going to solve it. We are also researching for similar ideas to ensure that our invention has never been invented before. This is also for updating our literature review.

Project Meeting 3 - Designs and Shapes of Product (with teacher mentor) 7th February 2011

Date: 7^th February 2011

Time: 1350 - 1415

Venue: Outside Staffroom

Members : Hao Yu(absent), Gary, Boning, Akira

No.	Discussed
1	Design of product ·         Material: claylike-plastic  -Strong -Not very costly
2	Hinges       Not feasible. It will increase the cost for the Plantplat.
3	Preparation for Prelims ·         Start Preparation on Slides  ·         Prepare script

Tasks Allocation:

Haoyu and Akira: Work on slides and script respectively. Update slides and scripts when necessary

Boning: Consider the advantages and disadvantages of other materials

Gary: Think of other outer designs and shape of the PlantPlat for aesthetics qualities and further convenience

During this meeting, our group started to consider more improvements to our product for increase aesthetics value or other conveniences. At the same time, we started to prepare our slides as our teacher mentor advised us to prepare early to avoid last minute preparations.