Process Streamlining and 3D Printing For Horticultural Research
Preferred learners
- British Columbia, Canada
- Academic experience or paid work
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Project scope
- What is the main goal for this project?
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The goal of the project is to streamline a horticultural research effort by defining process protocols as well as printing 3D objects to help manifest these protocols more efficiently and with greater precision. Our company wishes to initiate a research project in which edible plant seeds from various sources are sprouted or germinated and mycelium is incubated. This biological material is then treated, tested and results are recorded.
To this end, we would like a student to assist in planning and documenting the process protocol for the step by step actions to be conducted during the research as well as to create (by 3D printing) the objects (such as water collection trays) that will make the work easier and more precise.
Problems to be solved:
- Mapping out the research routine in a way that will make training new research workers able to quickly learn what to do and how to do it.
- modeling 3D objects with software and then turning them into real world objects using 3D printing.
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
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Students will need to:
- Learn to understand research lab horticultural practices of growing sprouts, seedlings and multicellular fungi
- Learn to use software for modeling and 3D printing objects
- Learn to master some kind of process flow diagram software
- What is the main goal for this project?
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The goal of the project is to streamline a horticultural research effort by defining process protocols as well as printing 3D objects to help manifest these protocols more efficiently and with greater precision. Our company wishes to initiate a research project in which edible plant seeds from various sources are sprouted or germinated and mycelium is incubated. This biological material is then treated, tested and results are recorded.
To this end, we would like a student to assist in planning and documenting the process protocol for the step by step actions to be conducted during the research as well as to create (by 3D printing) the objects (such as water collection trays) that will make the work easier and more precise.
Problems to be solved:
- Mapping out the research routine in a way that will make training new research workers able to quickly learn what to do and how to do it.
- modeling 3D objects with software and then turning them into real world objects using 3D printing.
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
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Students will need to:
- Learn to understand research lab horticultural practices of growing sprouts, seedlings and multicellular fungi
- Learn to use software for modeling and 3D printing objects
- Learn to master some kind of process flow diagram software
- How will you support learners in completing the project?
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- We will find out what the knowledge gaps exist between what the student knows and what the student needs to know in order to successfully complete the project.
- We will provide the necessary training and/or instruction to complete those knowledge gaps and we will break the tasks down into steps that can be completed in a single day's work - chaperoning the students while they navigate to the challenges of completing the tasks.
- The work is to be done on-site and we are almost always available to provide guidance and solve problems or answer questions that the student may encounter at any time.
About the company
- https://www.hap.bio
- 2 - 10 employees
- Hospital, health, wellness & medical, Science, Technology
Our company is engaged in mapping out a new branch of botany called natural enzyme promiscuity (or 'silent metabolism' - see resource file). This is the way plants react when introduced to exogenous chemicals.