Project Presentations

DMNS Rookie Booster 2011

3 Challenge Parts

Why a Project?

• The FLL Project is critical!

• FLL is not just about building & competing with robots.

• It is about making connections.

• Any successful engineering project requires a wide range of skills and abilities.

Think About It

• Food begins to spoil from the moment it is harvested. For centuries, people have worked to protect their food and keep it safe.

???• Have you ever thought about how your food stays

fresh?• Have you ever thought about who invented these

things?• Have you ever thought about how your food is

protected from microscopic attacks?• Have you ever thought about where your food comes

from and how it stays safe to eat?

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• How do a veterinarian, a factory worker, a physicist, a truck driver, a mathematician, a farmer, a microbiologist, a nutritionist, a doctor, a warehouse worker, a chemist, a grocer, a technician, an engineer, an inspector, and a programmer work together to keep your food safe? Each one played a role in making sure that the food you eat helps you grow and stay healthy. What does each one do?

Food Factor Project

• Investigate your food and find one way to improve its safe delivery to you (few than 7 ingredients).

– Identify a Problem– Create an Innovative Solution– Share with Others– Present Your Solution at a Tournament

IDENTIFY A PROBLEM

Consider

• Where does your food come from? How is it grown? Where has it been? Who handled it? How did it get to your kitchen cupboard? Who protected it along the way? How did they prevent spoiling and contamination? How did they decide which food was good and which was spoiled or contaminated? Once you know about the threats your food faces and who helps protect it, do some research. What could go wrong? How could your food become contaminated or spoiled? How could your team help prevent one of those problems? How could your team protect or preserve your food?

Ground to Table

• Find out about every step your team’s food took in its journey from ground (where it was grown) to table (where it was eaten)

• Learn about all the possible contamination and spoiling problems

• Learn how these problems are detected and prevented now

• Learn as much as you can about each ingredient in the food

Food Journey

CREATE AN INNOVATIVE SOLUTION

Create an Innovative Solution

Innovative:

solution is not already in use by someone else

it can be a new idea or an improvement on an existing idea

Innovative:

solution is not already in use by someone else

it can be a new idea or an improvement on an existing idea

Create an Innovative Solution

• Choose 1 problem

• Suggest a solution– What’s being done?– What will it take to make your team’s solution

happen?– How will your solution help people live happier

and healthier lives?– Why does the problem exist?

SHARE WITH OTHERS

Share with Others

• Tell others about the problem & how your solution helps– Give a talk for parents– Create a web-site– Perform a skit– Make a comic book / poster / rap / flyers / poem– Talk with experts

PRESENT YOUR SOLUTION AT A TOURNAMENT

Eligibility for Project Awards

• Describes the contamination or spoiling problem your team chose to research

• Describes your team’s innovative solution

• Describes how your team shared its findings with others

• Uses media equipment only to enhance the live presentation

Be Sure To…• Describe the food your team chose

• What you learned about that food’s journey to your table

• Identify an expert who is working on the problem

• Tell about the research and sources

• Setup and complete in 5 minutes or less

Resources for Past Projects

• Coaches Manuel– Project Rubric

• FLL Web-site– Project Guide & more– Project Q&A - fllprojects@usfirst.org

• Web– See what others have done with YouTube

Remember

• Identify Your Problem

• Create an Innovative Solution

• Share with Others

Let’s Get Started

• What are some foods in your fridge?

• How does each one get from the ground to the table?– What problems can occur during these processes?

Great Food Recalls in US History

• Food recalls can happen for many reasons

• Recalls are over seen by the FDA or USDA

• Food is recalled due to contamination– Suspected or confirmed– Voluntary which can be challenging

Major Recent Recalls

• 380,000 pounds of deli meat (listeria)

• 1 million pounds of ground beef (e.coli)

• 546,000 pounds ground beef (e.coli)

• 54,960 pounds turkey (salmonella)

How many people could be effected?• US (population 222,131,141)

• Colorado (population 5,025,748)

• Denver (population 554,636)

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