Last meeting with the whole team

As the exchange students are leaving before Christmas we wanted to set up a last meeting with the whole group to talk about the actual situation, things which need to be done and the last steps of the project as the solution needs be presented in mid January 2017. The meeting was held on the 13th of December and also Saara from PJH and Ohad from Demola were there to give some feedback and some last ideas.

Our Project partner so far likes our solution and especially the fact that the solution is easy to implement and easy to use. Furthermore they appreciate that we were getting some insights of a survey and also that we are setting up a Facebook campaign to provide the project partner even with more information about the target group.

In this meeting we discussed the last big steps of this project. So in January there is going to be the final pitch at Demola New Factory, the final pitch for the Project partner and the final meeting with the Project partner.

For these pitches and meetings there is still some work to do but we are hard working to present our idea successfully and to convince our project partner of our solution!

- Simone -

Our team part 7: Matilda

Hi!

My name is Matilda, like that Roald Dahl’s children’s book. Unfortunately though, I don’t have the ability to move things with just the force of my mind, unlike the Matilda of that story.

I’m studying public law in the University of Tampere, but I spent last year studying environmental sciences in the University of Iceland. Combining these studies, environmental law is what I’m currently concentrating on learning more about - and our waste flow project has been a great opportunity to enhance that knowledge in the field of waste management and recycling legislation.

Being still in the middle of my studies, I find consumerism and material flows especially interesting, as that is something everyone faces on a daily basis regardless of one’s degree or profession. Tiny daily decisions, but definitely important ones. And I’m very happy that I made the decision to apply to Demola this autumn, we had an amazing multidisciplinary team.

- Matilda -

Pitching Workshop

Henrikka and I attended the pitching workshop at the New factory on December 8th. There were speakers that discussed different topics regarding pitching ideas and presenting to an audience. They covered a lot of different areas and useful information. They shared some important tips on body language while presenting, making eye contact with your audience, using your space, and knowing your audience and material. We practiced these tips in small groups and got feedback on how we did. We also heard about Toastmasters and how they are all over the world and what meetings are like. It was interesting to hear stories about the Toastmasters corporation.

The agenda of the event.

- Aili -

Testing Afternoon #2

The second Testing Afternoon was held the first of December in Koilliskeskus which is a Tampere city service center inside a shopping center in Linnainmaa. Like in the first testing afternoon, here we could test our idea and get some feedback from random people. Since this was the first time we could test our new solution the event was really helpful. In the meeting the day before we created this idea of a real product we could come up in this project so that were presenting something more tangible and people could give us some realistic feedback. I brought some good looking canisters that represented the idea furthermore.  

The poster we created for the second testing afternoon.

Finding the place was quite a hassle but eventually we found the place. We had three hours to stay in our stand and wait for people to come and talk to us. Eventually we had only eight different people that gave us some feedback but the discussions with those eight people were really insightful and they gave us really useful feedback. We also got some validation for our idea which is nice since the deadline for this project is coming closer and closer every week and we have still quite a lot of stuff to do.

- Mikko -