The project is done!

The final events of Demola Autumn 2016 were last week. On Thursday 12.1.2017 all the teams presented their pitches to other teams and to the companies and teachers. Our team was still finalizing and practicing the pitch during the morning and missed the first batch, where about half of the teams were presenting pitches. Our batch started around 15.00 and we were the first team to show our results. Henriikka and Matilda had been working with the pitch beforehand they also presented it. Me and Mikko were listening excited and nervous in the audience. The pitch went great and we got really good feedback from the judges. As Ohad said, our pitch set the bar high for the other groups. We stayed and listened the other pitches too and there were really good ones with interesting subjects.

Matilda and Henriikka had some biobags with them in the pitch!

After the pitching event, we grabbed some Indian food before the Graduation party. In the graduation, there were some drinks and snacks and we discussed freely with other Demola teams. After some while the distribution of awards began. Many teams got awards of their successful projects and we were nominated of the pivot project. We were really happy about it and wanted then to hear what team was going to win the award of the best project in Demola Autumn 2016. We listened the arguments of the best project, which told that this year the best project wasn’t a very technical product but a simple solution to a simple need and that the product would be very beneficial to the Pirkanmaa region. And then they pronounced the name of the winning team and it was SMART WASTE FLOW!! We couldn’t really believe that it was our team who won. We were both happy and stunned and we couldn’t stop laughing because we didn’t still believe it was really us who were the best! Winning this award was unreal and it really felt that even though we had some difficulties during the project and we had to change the subject, we still could create something successful and valuable. We are all very proud and happy! This was a great end to our journey together.   

Smart Waste Flow!

The awards.

On the following day, Friday 13th, we went to the office of Pirkanmaan Jätehuolto to present the final idea. The meeting went very well and the company was satisfied with the results. After the two intensive days the whole team was extremely happy with the project (and the best project award!) but we were a bit sad that our international team members had to leave before Christmas and were not present in the final events. Nevertheless, every member contributed to the results and now were are curious to see what will happen with Oskar! :)

Link to Demola's blog post about the winning team: 

http://tampere.demola.net/news/smart-waste-flow-winner-campaign

The team (Aili not in the picture).

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