Monday May 16th, 2011

During this hour we debriefed our presentation and moved on to deciding more details.
- We are most likely going to have a filter system that can pump 4800 gallons per hour costing 180 dollars but that is not set in stone yet.
- We are working on deciding what specifically will be put on signs and how many there should be, right now we are thinking one big one or no more then five small ones. We do not want the signs to overwhelm the experience. We would like to have statistics about San Luis Obispo, California, and the entire US. We also plan to include a blurb about the two hydropower energy plants SLO to make more ties to the area. We would like to include a little about potential andd kinetic energy to have the direct STEM connection. One other consideration is to include information about dams because most people are only informed from a very bias view either one way or the other. We are considering also including wave energy because SLO is so close to the ocean but we do not want the signs to be overwhelming so we have not decided yet.

- we would like to include information that is direct and quantitative, such as A certain number of gallons of water released at the top of bishops and running down could power a certain technology.
- We are further deciding how to attach specific elements and what materials and manufacturing we would like to use for our prototype.