January 27, 2007

Attended: 18 students

	Name	Team
1	Ashley Pospisil	Communications
2	Hillary Eckhoff	Communications
3	Matthew Newton	Communications
4	Jennifer K.	Finance
5	Christopher Bryant	Finance
6	James Fagan	Engineering
7	Chakardhar Patel	Engineering
8	Matt Clapis	Engineering
9	Stephanie Ger	Growing Algae
10	Sarah Boison	Growing Algae
11	Chelsea Yalen	Growing Algae
12	Lauren Jefferson	Algae to Oil
13	Brian Finn	Algae to Oil
14	Donias Doko	Oil to Diesel
15	Roger Lu	Oil to Diesel
16	Brian Carvalho	Oil to Diesel
17	Justin Venezuela	Research
18	Travis Taylor	Management

Overseers: Mr. Mendelssohn

During this meeting:

Ø Separated into groups and completed independent tasks

Ø Facilities Engineering – Figured out how to develop and build a Bio-processor, using a website with step-by-step instructions as a guideline.

Ø Growing Algae – Cleaned tanks and photocopied chapters from a growing algae textbook and the chapters are as follows:

1. perpetual maintenance of actively metabolizing micro algae cultures

2. photo bioreactors and fermentation

3. measuring growth rates in micro algae cultures

Ø Algae to Oil – Conducted an informal experiment to rupture the cell walls by using saline shocking and microwaving.

Ø Oil to Diesel – Tried to make a new batch of Biodiesel with ethanol, which wasn’t successful, and then with methanol. They aren’t sure if the methanol worked because the experiment was tampered with.

Ø Research and Development – Researched the use of LED’s in algae growth, liquid nitrogen for cell wall rupturing, and they are going to help construct an algae growing apparatus.