Project: reducing packaging

We decided to reduce packaging by transforming boxes of food from parallelepipeds to cubes. Indeed the solid that encloses the largest volume in the lower surface is just the cube. We consider a cereal box and, after calculating its volume, we have designed the development of a cube that contained the same volume of the parallelepiped. After performing the necessary calculations, we concluded that making a cubic box instead of a parallelepiped saves about 28% of packaging. We also decided to propose the transformation of the packaging by parallelepiped to cube not only for the boxes of the foods, but also for the boxes of Lego that are very large in spite of containing only a few pieces. Finally we propose to apply a logo to signal to buyers that these products were packed saving more packaging possible.

App designers

Hello! We are the group responsible to design the app. To solve one of the problems of the recycling oli is creating an app. The objective of the app is to contact with an oil recycle enterprise to call them when a persona have oil to recycle. We will create the app with “App inventor”. This program is the most appropiate to do our app but we think is quite difficult.To create this app we'll do some steps:

• The first step is to create a program in the app to make and save profile to the app.
• The second step is to send the information to the enterprises using the app. 
• The next step consists in getting the information stored in the cloud called Fusion Tables.
• One of the most difficult step is create and send the data in the digital network (fusion table). 

Finally, the information arrives to the enterprises and they know that you are interested in recycle oil.

Our opinion

We haven't talked a lot about your idea yet. But our first opinion is that is easier to reduce the packaging of crisps, but we think that to recycle something liquid can be very difficult, because you can't change the form of a liquid. However,at least, you can change the form of the crisps, as Pringles did.

Can designers

Hi! We are the can designers.

Our group is composed by 5 students. Since we started working, we have done lots of things. We spreaded all the things that we had to do. 

For example, I had to do to the design of the can and think about the materials that can be used to make it. 

Senda, a member of our group had to look for a filter to strain the oil. 

Marc and Eloi are trying to design the can in 3D with one program called SketchUp, and Èric is doing the can description.

Finally, we have solved some of the problems about the can.

Oriol, from the group of the can designers.

Reduce conteiners of juice

Hola chicos,

in addition to reduce the packaging of chips, we  decide to reduce conteiners of juice, transforming the shape of parallelepiped containers in cubes.we would love an opinion on our idea.

Thank you

Thanks for the information, we think that your strategy is really original and interesting and will perfectly have options to win! 

The fourth mission

HELLO GUYS!!!!

The fourth mission is very difficult. We built a platform above our robot in which there are the blacks, yellow and blue bars.

In front of the platform there is a arm... click here to watch the mode of operation.

OUR STRATEGY

Hello guys, we decide to divide the robotic challenge in 8 steps. In each of them, the robot will have to solve some missions and return into the base.

1^st lap = purchasing decision – base

2^nd lap = demolition’s handcart – base

3^rd lap= composting’s handcart – methane – scarp car – retade composting’s handcart - base

4^th lap = put the methane in the truck – spin the truck – take the plane – spin “demolition” – base

5^th lap= retade demolition’s handcart – base

6^th lap= put the methane in the purchasing decision – ring “sorting”

7^th lap= put the octopus in the circle – take the bag – spin the turtle in the circle – take the ring of “demolition” – base

8^th lap= sorting – men of sorting

OUR SOLUTION

Hello, how we said the problem that we want to solve is the oil trash, specifically we want to increase the recycled oil of our town. For this, we thought a system. This system consists of three solutions. The first one is a technologic solution, which is to make an App to make the dumb know who have oil to recycle. The second one is to make a container to put and strain the oil to make the process of recycling easier. The third one is to make a campaign to make the people be motivated and make aware recycling oil.

For this, we thought it would be a good idea to dived the class in 4 groups. We divided it in 4 work groups: 

• App designers group: They are the responsible of make the App of our scientific project.
• Container designers group: They are the responsible of make the container of our scientific project.
• Robot group: They are the responsible of prepare the robots missions.
• Communication group: They are the responsible of the web and the blog.

Scientific Project ...from Italy

Hi guys !!!

For our project, everyone has thought of waste that we could reduce and then we voted the ideas. The investigation revealed that the most popular idea is to reduce the packaging of foods, such as packs of chips, which are not completely full. These days, we are doing research to find out which products have excessive packaging and we should reduce them.

                                                                                           

          

Italian team

Hello, we are 13 boys between 12-15 years of secondary school of Carimate, in January we will participate in the competition of robotics organized by the FLL.

The name of our team is Ri-cicloni.

Carimate is a small town near Milan.

We are divided into 4-5 groups to work and each of us is responsible for different tasks.

Our idea for the scientific project focuses on reducing packaging; for example, you could put more chips into packs, this will produce a lot less waste.

We have already participated in this challenge last year and we have a site that we'd love if you visit it.

CLICK HERE: http://www.fotoperstudiare.weebly.com

Hi again!




All the groups thought which were the most important problems about the oil. After that, every group made a brainstorming about solutions to solve the problems. We have thought problems which happen in our town. The most releveant problems are the following ones:

• There are not many places to collect oil and the places which are nearer are too far away.
• The oil they receive is dirty.
• When the oil is useless it is really hot.
• It is difficult to handle.
• It is not comfortable to accumulate.
• It is not funny to recycle.
• The population don't know much about the problems that can happen if we don't recycle oil.

This is a summary of the problems each group thought about. Then, every group thought of different solutions to solve this problems. These are the solutions, we've thought (some of them are a bit crazy):

• Make oil cubes (like ice cubes).
• Put a gadget in the bottle or deposit you use to recycle that make that the oil change of color to make it funnier to recycle.
• Make a deposit that when you throw oil in it, it makes different sounds, also to make it funnier.
• Make a hole in the sink which takes the oil to a kind of recycling deposit.
• Make a sponge that transports the oil.
• Make a machine which makes soap with the oil.
• Make a boiler which works with oil.
• Create an aplication which keeps the dump business informed about who has oil to recycle.
• Create a kind of advertisment to make the population know what not to recycle oil entails.
• Make a deposit which has a balance that tells you when the deposit is full.

In general, we've thought that the best idea is a set of all of them. We think it's important to make it funny, so we think that we could make a kind of deposit which make the process of collecting oil easier, funnier, cleaner and try to make the people know what not to recycling oil entails.

Hello world!

Hi!

We are some students about 15-16 years old from “Institut de Gurb” and we are writing this from the subject of technology.

First of all, Gurb is a small town near Barcelona (60 km). Our class is participating in the FLL competition. As you know, in this competition, we have to do a scientific project and a robot game.

This year the scientific project is about trash problems . We divided our class  in three groups of 4-5 students. Each group has thought about a trash problem.

Finally, after each group researched different trash problems we’ve chosen the one that we think is the best: the recycling of cooking oil.

Right now, each group is looking for solutions to solve the problem.  

Here we’re attaching some videos that each group made which are about all the problems we have thought.

Video 1

Video 2

Video 3