We've finally eaten food from the stove!
Yesterday, after the D-Lab Presentations, our team had a great celebration Jic's house. Besides barbecuing tons of food on his grill, we fired up the pine needle stove for several hours. Though we didn't cook our dinner on the stove (though maybe we should have...), we did decide it was time to try cooking on it, so we fried a few eggs. It was fantastic!
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Tau Beta Pi Fellowship!
This week, we received a $3000 Tau Beta Pi fellowship to work on our stove this summer! This means that we will have the funds to take this into the field and get feedback from our community partners in India!
D-Lab Final Presentations
Yesterday afternoon was the MIT D-Lab Spring Showcase, hosted at the MIT Museum.
The event began with 1 minute presentations from all the D-Lab project teams this semester; afterwards, people milled around and visited team presentation booths.
Our stove was very well received--the audience was REALLY excited about our stove, and we had people from all over the world asking if we could try implementing it in their country! It was encouraging to receive such positive feedback from the MIT community and the international development community. It's one thing for us to think our stove is awesome--it's another story when others start believing it, too!
We have a lot to consider as we move forward--how do we want to pursue the design, how do we want to pursue dissemination... what's our direction?! Only time will tell...
This was our presentation video--a teaser to get people to come to our booth!
This was our booth poster:
The event began with 1 minute presentations from all the D-Lab project teams this semester; afterwards, people milled around and visited team presentation booths.
Our stove was very well received--the audience was REALLY excited about our stove, and we had people from all over the world asking if we could try implementing it in their country! It was encouraging to receive such positive feedback from the MIT community and the international development community. It's one thing for us to think our stove is awesome--it's another story when others start believing it, too!
We have a lot to consider as we move forward--how do we want to pursue the design, how do we want to pursue dissemination... what's our direction?! Only time will tell...
This was our presentation video--a teaser to get people to come to our booth!
This was our booth poster:
The De Florez Award Competition
Last week, our team applied for the De Florez Award, which awards MIT Mechanical Engineering students for innovations in design and/or science.
We presented our stove at the competition on May 6th, 2010. We ended up earning 3rd place for Undergraduate Design, winning $1500 cash and student editions of SolidWorks for our 4 team members!
Receiving an award and prize money is very exciting to say the least! It means that people actually like our product, they think it's innovative, and they want us to keep pushing forward with it. It's the "You're on the right track, keep going!" stamp of approval. Besides making us just FEEL more legit, it means we actually have money to fuel this project this summer and fall!
This was our submission video to the competition:
Here is one (very poor quality) photo of us ladies at the competition, manning our booth:
Here was our booth poster:
We presented our stove at the competition on May 6th, 2010. We ended up earning 3rd place for Undergraduate Design, winning $1500 cash and student editions of SolidWorks for our 4 team members!
Receiving an award and prize money is very exciting to say the least! It means that people actually like our product, they think it's innovative, and they want us to keep pushing forward with it. It's the "You're on the right track, keep going!" stamp of approval. Besides making us just FEEL more legit, it means we actually have money to fuel this project this summer and fall!
This was our submission video to the competition:
Here is one (very poor quality) photo of us ladies at the competition, manning our booth:
Here was our booth poster:
