Team:UGent Belgium/Notebook

Notebook | Vsycle

Timeline

October

  • 8/10 - Infosession iGEM competition @UGent

November

  • 21/11 - First brainstorming session with all interested students

December

  • 16/12 - Second brainstorming session with all interested students

January

February

  • 10/2 - Presentations of all possible topics are given for all the students, PhD students as well as for our PI’s Marjan en Wim
  • 17/02 - Team Water is formed. We had our first brainstorming session as a group.

March

  • 9/03 - Team Water decided to work on the topic of cloud seeding. Rearrangement of our group.
  • 12/03 - Last real life meeting with team Water. University closes, everyone has to stay home.

April

  • 10/04 - First literature search is done by the team to gain more insight in cloud seeding
  • 17/04 - Team & idea presentation for PI’s - we will work on the development of vesicles + our team name is born: Vsycle
  • 24/04 - Project is devided into six work packages. Everyone in the team is assigned to two work packages.

May

June

  • 06/06 - We got a message from Revive & Restore: our team has been selected for a Revive & Restore grant of 5500 USD !!

July

  • 07/07 - Meeting with other UGent Team Bubbly to discuss our collaboration
  • 16/07 - Mails are sent to a list of companies for sponsering our project
  • 22/07 - NDA is sent to German company cloud seeding technology
  • 22/07 - 24/07 - Benelux Meetup
  • 25/07 - Twitter account is made for both iGEM teams
  • 31/07 - Start collaboration with iGEM team Paris-Bettencourt

August

  • 02/08 - Our Team Logo is designed!
  • 04/08 - Meeting with Massimiliano Simons (philosopher) to discuss the ethics regarding our project
  • 11/08 - Storyboard animationvideo for children is made!
  • 14/08 - Kick off call Revive & Restore
  • 19/08 - Meeting with cameraman Waldo Vandermeiren for promotion video
  • 19/08 - Facebook and instagram account are made for both iGEM UGent teams
  • 19/08 - Human Practices: surveys to gain insight in public opinion are made and sent to farmers and experts
  • 20/08 - 22/08 - Participation in the global meetup
  • 20/08 - Meeting with teachers elimentary education to get feedback regarding the lessons we prepared for children as part of our outreach
  • 24/08 - Meeting with director Lieven De Brauwer to brainstorm for our promotion video
  • 26/08 - Meeting with German Company to discuss details regarding possible collaboration
  • 26/08 - Meeting with Toon Van Huynegem to start developping our game as part of outreach

September

  • 03/09 - Animationvideo is made!
  • 6/09 - Filming day for promotion video
  • 9/09 - Our surveys are sent to iGEM team Paris-Bettencourt
  • 10/09 - Meeting with iGEM team Manchester to discuss possible collaboration and to give each other feedback regarding entrepreneurship
  • 11/09 - First lesson is given to the children! They were enthousiastic!
  • 14/09 - Brochures are sent to companies for sponsoring
  • 18/09 - GoFundMe page is launched
  • 21/09 - De Watergroep, a Belgian company, officialy announced that they will sponsor us!
  • 24/09 - We handed in our promotionvideo and published it on our social media!

October

  • 7/10 - Press message is released!
  • 10-11/10 - Team is busy with preparing the design and content of the presentation video
  • 19/10 - It is time to start filming for the presentation video. After school, we go to the Ghent University museum (GUM) in the evening! So exciting!
  • 26/10 - Meeting with the team to finish up our wiki