Team:Cornell/Notebook
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FEBRUARY 27TH TO MARCH 5TH
Wet Lab: Wet Lab members began training, starting with sterile technique, growing cultures, miniprep, and PCR.
Product Development: Product Development members began familiarizing themselves with Fusion 360.
Wiki: Wiki subteam learned the basics of HTML/CSS during an hour-long HTML class, and worked on an HTML/CSS Project due Thursday, 3/16.
MARCH 6TH TO MARCH 12TH
Wet Lab: Wet Lab members split up into training groups and performed PCR reactions of gblocks used for last year’s bacteriocin project. Team members also performed miniprep to extract the H plasmid on cells.
Product Development: Team members began working on an exercise to create a CAD design of their phones.
P&P:P&P discussed the function of P&P as a subteam, goals for the upcoming year and started brainstorming ideas for outreach.
Wiki: Wiki subteam learned about Typography, White Space, and Color during an hour-long Design class. They worked on an exercise in Adobe Illustrator.
MARCH 13TH TO MARCH 19TH
Wet Lab: Wet lab members learned about restriction digests, ligation, agarose gel electrophoresis and cleanup, as well as OE PCR, Gibson, and 3A assembly.
Product Development: Team members learned how to create 3D objects in Fusion 360.
P&P:P&P researched successful P&P applications of past projects from other teams and discussed the pros and cons of those projects.
Wiki:Wiki subteam learned about JavaScript and jQuery during an hour-long HTML class. They successfully submitted their HTML/CSS Project due Thursday, 3/16. They started working on their JavaScript and jQuery project.
Business:Team members reviewed their requirements and spoke about expectations for the upcoming year.
MARCH 20TH TO MARCH 26TH
Wet Lab: Wet lab members practiced restriction digest, agarose gel electrophoresis, and ligation of bacteriocin genes into a vector.
Product Development: Product Development decided to work in a Hardware Accelerator program at Rev: Ithaca Startup Works.
P&P:P&P started planning for Splash! at Cornell, our first outreach event.
Wiki: Wiki subteam learned about Composition during an hour-long Design class. They successfully submitted their JavaScript and jQuery project Milestone 1.
Business:Team members wrote their sponsorship letters and started preparing the sponsorship packet.
MARCH 27TH TO APRIL 2ND
Wet Lab: Wet lab members learned about restriction digests, ligation, agarose gel electrophoresis and cleanup, as well as OE PCR, Gibson, and 3A assembly.
Product Development: Team members learned how to create 3D objects in Fusion 360.
P&P:P&P continued to work on the presentation for Splash!.
Wiki:Wiki subteam successfully submitted their JavaScript and jQuery project Milestone 2.
Business:Team members explored different ways to raise funds for the upcoming year.
APRIL 10TH TO APRIL 16TH
Wet Lab: Wet lab members learned about DNA sequencing and plasmid transformation into competent cells.
Product Development: Product Development began to learn how to use Arduino by making an LED flash at certain time intervals.
P&P:P&P finalized the presentation and planned our hands-on experiments for Splash!. We began preparing for our next outreach events: Raw Expo, MakerFaire, and a Lab Demo/Tabling for potential Cornell students in the Women in Engineering program (WiE). We also began brainstorming redox sensor applications, including air pollution, water quality, soil chemistry, and medicine.
Wiki: Wiki subteam learned about Interaction & Motion during an hour-long Design class. They began working on their Bootstrap and GitHub project due 4/28.
Business:Team members edited each other’s sponsorship letters and edited the content for the sponsorship packet.
