Students Without Borders
In the Students Without Borders project, our class is partnering with Engineers Without Borders to try to solve a problem in a poor area. Below, you can see my advancements through the project as the drafter.
The Individual Idea
It’s a fact of life: in many places around the world, people are going hungry. Whether it be from lack of rain, lack of money, or bad ground, food is hard to come by. In fact, for 805 million people, and that’s one in every nine people, food is a hard to come by, precious, commodity. My product, a portable, self sustaining aquaponics system, could be taken to any number of varying environments, and can be used to grow food for poor communities in need of food.
The product is going to be a generic aquaponics system, including a container of some kind, to house water and fish, and a plant bed. The water in the container is pumped into a plant bed, which is then watered. The water goes through the dirt, and is introduced back into the container. The system requires a pump, though, which requires power. The pump will be powered by a solar panel.
The product is going to be a generic aquaponics system, including a container of some kind, to house water and fish, and a plant bed. The water in the container is pumped into a plant bed, which is then watered. The water goes through the dirt, and is introduced back into the container. The system requires a pump, though, which requires power. The pump will be powered by a solar panel.
The Group Idea
For our group's idea, check out internationalhelpers.weebly.com! We've got info about our idea, the group, and pictures of the whole thing! For my portion of the group, I was the drafter. I made professional "drafts" (both online, and on paper) of our project. You can see them below (in chronological order, so least to most recent).
Note: The third hand drawing should have a 48" rain catcher on it, but room didn't allow for it on the picture.
And here's my online draft: