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Re-use of Grey Water Show Case Project

Today Australia is going through a 1000 year drought. Water is becoming a rare resource. How can we draw on the talents of our children to solve this problem? One day soon, for sure it will become their problem.

In April 2007 a group of 20 students and teachers give up a few days of their holidays to come together to design, build and implement their ideas to Re-use Grey water....

 

Project Description:

Place: lab3000 Melbourne Incubator

Time : 2nd to 5th of April 2007

Participants : 15 students from year 5 to 10, 3 engineering mentor students from RMIT and 3 High School teachers

Topic: Design, build and program a working prototype model of a house with an implemented microchip controlled grey water system.

Steps:

1: Training

  • Introduction to CoreChart and ezCircuit Designer to get everyone up to speed with programming microchips in the context of control for the Re-use of Grey Water.

  • Discuss the safety aspects of using Grey Water based on Victorian EPA regulations.

  • Discuss setting up of a News Room and PR team

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2: Designing

  • Design and document control system with ezCircuit Designer 

  • Teachers, lecturers and industry mentors share experience of project management and team skills.

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3: Building and Programming

  • Design and build model house 

  • Build electronics control system 

  • Program microchip with CoreChart

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4: Presentation

  • Presentation of project from each team

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The students gained skills in the fields of:

  • Electronics

  • Science 

  • Maths 

  • Hands-on Experience

  • Programming Microchips

  • Communication (Presentation)

  • Team work

  • Water/Energy Saving

  • Industrial Work

Supporters:

  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)

  • Victorian Government

  • Clipsal

  • Leader Computers

  • AEEMA

  • Engineer Australia

  • Coliban Water Utility

  • Bioscreen (Germany)

  • Anthill Magazine

  • ROWater

  • NASA Space Education

  • St Helena Sec College

  • Committee for Melbourne

Example

One of five working models

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