Preferred learners
- Anywhere
- Academic experience
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Project scope
- What is the main goal for this project?
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Number of positions available: One or more teams with one or more students
We are creating an Indoor Vertical Farming system, and are working on creating a full seed to plate infrastructure.
We have 13 different subsystems:
Network - Manages the entire Farm Network
Assembly - An ERP system (extending Odoo) to manage the manufacturing
Agronomist - Maintains our grow formulas and marketing materials
Grower - A full analysis system to review all the farms
AI - (Not currently available) Uses the data in Grower to create new grow formulas
Gardner - Manages the hardware for the Vertical Acre according to the grow formula specifications
Pavilion - Manages the HVAC system according to the grow formula specifications
Germinator - Manages the hardware for the Incubator
Barn - Manages the farm
Farmer - An ERP system (extending Odoo) to manage the farm
Inspector - Monitors the equipment and production
Director - Provides an API to mobile applications and 3rd party software
Customer Layer - Mobile/Web applications
- Distributor - applications for the distributor customers
- Consumer App = This app is intended to interact with a consumer of our products.
- Retailer App - For the retailer
- Food Server App - For the Restaurant
The students will
a) Work with our Marketing Team to develop and test a UX
b) Work with our Data Architect to capture the relevant user data and store it in our DB
c) Write the App code to implement the App specification.
d) Be responsible for fixing any bugs.
e) Ensure the App meets all technical requirements of the Android and Apple app stores.
Here is a link to a summary of the all the applications and even more details
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
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Skills students will develop:
- Project management
- Communication in a virtual environment
- Familiarity with tools like Discord, Asana and GitLab
- Taking responsibility
- Presentation skills for a business environment.
We have a standardized development process:
- Dataflow diagram
- Roadmap
- JIRA project Management
- What is the main goal for this project?
-
Number of positions available: One or more teams with one or more students
We are creating an Indoor Vertical Farming system, and are working on creating a full seed to plate infrastructure.
We have 13 different subsystems:
Network - Manages the entire Farm Network
Assembly - An ERP system (extending Odoo) to manage the manufacturing
Agronomist - Maintains our grow formulas and marketing materials
Grower - A full analysis system to review all the farms
AI - (Not currently available) Uses the data in Grower to create new grow formulas
Gardner - Manages the hardware for the Vertical Acre according to the grow formula specifications
Pavilion - Manages the HVAC system according to the grow formula specifications
Germinator - Manages the hardware for the Incubator
Barn - Manages the farm
Farmer - An ERP system (extending Odoo) to manage the farm
Inspector - Monitors the equipment and production
Director - Provides an API to mobile applications and 3rd party software
Customer Layer - Mobile/Web applications
- Distributor - applications for the distributor customers
- Consumer App = This app is intended to interact with a consumer of our products.
- Retailer App - For the retailer
- Food Server App - For the Restaurant
The students will
a) Work with our Marketing Team to develop and test a UX
b) Work with our Data Architect to capture the relevant user data and store it in our DB
c) Write the App code to implement the App specification.
d) Be responsible for fixing any bugs.
e) Ensure the App meets all technical requirements of the Android and Apple app stores.
Here is a link to a summary of the all the applications and even more details
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
-
Skills students will develop:
- Project management
- Communication in a virtual environment
- Familiarity with tools like Discord, Asana and GitLab
- Taking responsibility
- Presentation skills for a business environment.
We have a standardized development process:
- Dataflow diagram
- Roadmap
- JIRA project Management
- How will you support learners in completing the project?
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Teams have a product manager who provides direction and organization
We have a Discord server for regular communications
We regular team meetings
We provide help for job hunting - with a focus on LinkedIn
- What skills or technologies will help learners to complete the project?
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Skills students will develop:
- Project management
- Communication in a virtual environment
- Familiarity with tools like Discord, Asana and GitLab
- Taking responsibility
- Presentation skills for a business environment.
Supported causes
About the company
- http://LocalGrownSalads.com
- 2 - 10 employees
- Food & beverage, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Technology, Science
We are an Indoor Vertical Farming company. Check our website http://LocalGrownSalads.com.
We love working with Riipen Students.
We work with students from all around the world. In fact we say that the sun never sets on Local Grown Salads.
(Its true and its a pun on our Indoor Vertical Farming Technology)
We have ongoing relationships with Arizona State University, U of Texas, RMIT in Australia, University Canada West, to name a few..
We work with individuals or teams (typically doing a capstone)
We provide a Virtual work environment using Agile (using JIRA), Discord, AWS, ReTool, React Native, Postgres to name some of our tools.
Zoom, and other tools.
Students can expect
1) Mentoring
2) international Networking
3) An environment to learn and prepare themselves for a career.
3) a reference letter