LAST BLOG!

Well, I just got done with my last final. I'm not sure how I feel about it right now. I think it'll hit me sometime tonight or tomorrow that I won't be pulling all-nighters to read about the geography of Latin America EVER. AGAIN.

Bittersweet. I've loved Mizzou since I was a kid, loved it while I was here and I'll miss it when I move on.

I'd say our capstone presentation went well. We were really happy to see Chris, Rashad and Jacquie there. My review about the project and our team was pretty much my last blog post. Couldn't have asked for a better capstone semester. Big thanks to Chelsea and Mike.

My online portfolio is done and submitted.
http://larvf6.wordpress.com

Peace.

Week 14: Second to last post, ever.

I'm going to start off by saying, I hands down believe I got to work with the best team for my capstone. Chelsea and Michael both bring different strengths to the team. Chelsea is like our little secretary. She takes down every note/piece of information we would ever need and her flash drive holds pretty much everything we've worked on. Michael is very organized and makes sure everything is on schedule. Most of the time it'd annoy me to get texts reminding me about meetings, etc. but, I more than appreciated his dedication to our project. I'd say I work as a good editor. Chelsea, Michael and I all work well together because we trust in each others abilities and skills and can all take constructive criticism. I'm extremely thankful for both of them and the way our capstone turned out this semester. I wish every other capstone down the line the great experience I had.

I know this wasn't required, but as things are winding down I figured it'd be a moot point to elaborate on what "winding down" was, so I used this post to brag about my team :)

Tuesday night we practice for our presentation. I'm actually really looking forward to it. I hope it is as interesting and educational for the rest of them as it has been for us.

Week 13: Almost the End

This week I've been working on my online portfolio. I switched from weebly to wordpress. My photo files were too large and I used up all my free space- I realized this after I already switched but I like wordpress better anyway. Tomorrow we're meeting in Futures to work on tying up loose ends and getting our paper written and presentation put together. As Chelsea would say, "YAY SCHOOL."

Week 12: Finshing up

Well, the team isn't doing the European Decathlon because of financial reasons. This leaves the remaining bit for us to do pretty simple. We are meeting the next couple of weekends on Saturday to get everything put together and set up for the team next time around. We're finishing up blog content, the communications plan, bios of the students, our presentation, etc. I'm looking forward to presenting the things we've learned and were able to accomplish come May 12th.

Week 11: 2013

This week felt like it was 2 days long. We met to work on the brochure to finalize it for the team's Chicago trip. Communication has been "rough" seeing as though so many changes were asked to be made pretty last minute. We made it work, got them printed and even made business cards to hand out to give people a way to get back in contact with the team if need be. However, Thursday night, we found out that the team did not get a bid. Meaning, they weren't invited back to the competition for 2011. What this means for our capstone, I don't know. But, we've worked well with the team, done everything we could, and they remain optimistic for the next competition. Jacquie also mentioned to us that they are thinking about trying for the European Solar Decathlon competition.
My main disappointment was not that we worked all semester on something that didn't pull through in the end, but that we've seen just how hard their team has worked and how much energy and passion they've shown all to receive a "no thanks." This was interesting to us because they placed 11th out of 20 schools in 2009 and have only made significant improvements since then.
We'll see what happens.

Week 10: new logo

We got some images of the new logo that implemented the old idea/colors and a sketch from one of the students on the Solar Decathlon team. It looks cleaner, more applicable and able to be put on T-shirts, brochures, website, etc. cleanly. I'm still working on the tech piece... I'm just waiting to hear back from a couple people to get some more background information. I'll be in Chicago this weekend so we're meeting tomorrow to finalize brochure content to give to the ad team so they can come up with an official idea to put together and print. This week has gone by ridiculously fast... and so has this semester. We'll be wrapping things up pretty quickly.

Week 9: Brochure (cont) + logo

[I had this written beforehand and for some reason forgot to publish it on blogger]

This week we discussed more about the layout and content of the brochure. Even though our team isn't in charge of the layout/end result (besides content)... I'm pretty adamant about it not being a simple trifold on white printing paper. To be frank, I made those was when I was in elementary school. I think for as awesome as a team that Team Missouri is, they need to take something that really represents how hard they've worked... and a brochure talking about what they've been doing is the first step.
Chelsea, Michael and I met up and split up some things to work on during (haha) and when we get back from spring break. I'm working on a piece that talks about the special technology Team Missouri is lucky to use like the telepresence system and a machine that prints their graphs (we have 1 of the 6 in the country).
Looking forward to seeing the new logo implemented and coming back from break and finishing this up.