Meeting+Minutes

April 14:


 * Minutes sent in e-mail:**

Hey Pumpmonkeys: Topics Covered in Meeting: 1. Central Message of Project 2. Video/Information Content 3. Prototype Design 4. Presentation Arrangement 5. Tasks for Friday Meeting 1. Central Message Your body needs energy for movement needs oxygen for energy needs blood for oxygen needs a pumping heart (cardiac output) for blood 2. Videos/Information Most information will be communicated in Hot Zone style videos, with animations and music and text. Video loop of three videos 2 minutes (or at least less than five, comprable to hotzone). Video topics: one showing burning almond, that explains how oxygen leads to energy; one that displays a heart beating and explains cardiac output; one that shows intense can con athletes. We are unsure about the amount of non-video text to include, and where we could include it. We are pretty sure that the majority of the display will be the screen (large than originally imagined), a flowchart describing the central message and the title. 3. The prototype materials and overall design were decided upon. Materials: clamp (demonstrated by Grace) in the place of a valve woodlike material for box (needs to be purchsed) reservoir(s) (probably tupperware boxes that we have on hand) 2L juice bottles (perhaps many taped on top of one another?) tubing (needs to be purchased) pump (already acquired) liquid It was decided that the top of the juice bottle would be hidden within the box and that the pump and most of the inner workings would be also. The tube delivering liquid to the bottle would be visible. Danielle did a nice drawing of this; I might possibly reproduce it and scan it in, but don't count on it. 4. Presentation Arrangement Presentation would have four sections: (and, presumably, an intro and outro)

1. Prototype: basic design 2. Aethetics: minature model, colour scheme, flowchart image, video info 3. Information: what is presented in the video, research presentation, what is communicated 4. Practicals: blueprints of final design, budget, etc? Throughout: mention alternative designs. 5. Tasks for Friday Meeting Friday Homeroom: we will decide on a title and test the prototype. Mads will present her findings about prototype materials and their costs. Sarah and Safiyyah will present ideas for the information content of the videos (including fun facts?) Tessa will present colour scheme ideas. Everyone will present song ideas and title ideas


 * March 11:**

Challenges: meeting with Bruce and Walter disorgainsed, confused; research team unsure what to do; too many topics; limited stroke volume (only 100 mL a stroke); unsure how to make pumping such a small volume fun

Resolutions: benchmarks drafted; focus resolved to cardiac output volume; vertical/horizontal theme discarded; only design team will meet with Bruce and Walter, and will have an agenda for each meeting; meetings will be regular, each week

Group meeting 1:

Ideas: - Have a focus on the heart....have a heart competition, see who could pump as much as the heart for different sports. Have two people pumping the same amount of water as the heart as when a person is doing a certain sport. - Have a focus on the winter olympics - Try and get interviews/ stats about Canadas best - When doing the pump, it should be easier for us to pump the blood around the body than a regular heart because the muscels in our hand are a lot weaker than in the heart...

Sports: - Biathalon - Winter Olympic Sports

Materials: - 1) Should we be filling up or circulating? - 2) Small little balls withing the bloodstream? (what materials?) - 3) What should we use for tubing (PVC tubing?) - 4) What should our medium be? (Just water with food colouring? oil?)

People to talk to: - Engineers - Building Team - Design People (Matt, Russell, Walter, Bruce) - People from the shops - Canadian Olympuic Comittee? .