Difference between revisions of "Team:ShanghaiFLS China/Attributions"

As one of the team leaders, Brian is responsible for the wet team, including design of the experiment and parts, carrying out the experiment, etc. He also hosts weekly meetings within the team to make sure each person is doing his/her job.

Other members of the wet team include Ethan and Aileen, who carried out a majority of experiments; Amber, who participated in experimental design and writing of the safety form; and Jane, who participated in the investigation. Crystal and Alexis also helped when the experimental tasks were hard on a specific day. Baron did significant research in both our project and existent parts from previous years. He then contributed to the design for both our project and the required contribution.

As the leader of the dry team, Crystal is responsible for constructing the team's Wiki. She also joins Ethan and Aileen in managing the team's social media accounts, including Wechat and Instagram. Crystal checked the questionnaire and the interview questions before they were carried out and did major changes to the survey. She also makes sure that the team's Human Practices are useful to the experiment. Brian, Crystal, Ethan, Cherry, Amber, Jane, and Martin contributed to writing the team's Wiki.

Clesia is responsible for constructing and collecting the team's questionnaire, which was checked and analyzed by Crystal. The survey received more than 700 effective responses, the data of which are discussed in the Human Practices page. Nicole did major works in contacting companies for interviews and visits, and co-conducted several interviews with Clesia.

Martin and Alexis are responsible for public relations and fund-raising. They contacted companies and foundations and wrote a Business Proposal. Wilson is responsible for artistic designs, including the front page of the team's Wiki, our logo, and our team uniform. Aileen additionally contributed to designing the uniform.

We constructed two models. One was built before the experiment to demonstrate that our design was feasible, and Brian was responsible for it. The other was constructed by Ethan after the experiment to evaluate the effects of our product on industrial production. The latter received major help from BAI Yuting, a schoolmate in Shanghai Foreign Language School, as he helped with major mathematic equations.

We would additionally like to thank our primary PI, Mr. XU Jiawei, for helping us with documents at school; and our secondary PI, Professor Cai, for generously offering us with his laboratory from June to October. Our advisors, LIU Qi and XU Mingqiang, helped a lot with experimental designs and protocols. We often found discussions with them very helpful in moving on with our experiment. Our assigned mentor, NIU Xiaoqi, was indeed very experienced. He helped with our experiments and models, and made sure that we were generally on track for a several-month-long competition.

We thank our sponsors, Weistek Foundation and Philanthropic Foundation of Shenzhen. We used the money to buy new equipment to measure methanol concentration.