Showcase Success!

After a lot of hard work (and more nights working past 3 a.m. than we'd like to remember), the Lamar Launderers were able to complete their prototype!

With mechanical and electrical systems (finally) working flawlessly, we were able to perform rudimentary tests, only to find that our solenoid valves were improper for our application.

This having been said, we were still able to present at the TSGC Design showcase yesterday, Monday, April 12th, and demonstrate the agitation and press method that the design uses.

Everything went off without a hitch. Judges and spectators (as well as a few rival teams) were blown away by the working prototype. The awards that our hard work earned for us are listed below:

-Best Team
-Forum Favorite Team
-Best Poster
-Best Model
-Best Oral Presentation
-Best Paper
-Best Patch
-Best Collaboration (with over 9 distributors and suppliers)
-Best photo documentation (semester II team)
-Best photo of a team member on the verge (for the picture of our contributor, Colby Henslee with our drum mold on his head)
-Best rendition of an old tradition (for our reinstatement of the Lamar tradition to forget about Tuesday Tag Ups until Wednesday morning, thus making Wednesday Whazzups)

This means we won 11 1st place prizes out of a possible 33 categories.

We would just like to thank anyone and everyone that helped make our success possible, including
Jason Blake, Aaron Chinn, and Teddy Weitzel from Sage Automation for all their assistance
Steve Ingraham from I-Corp Inc. for helping us with manufactured parts
Cecil Brandon from Advanced Urethane Products Inc for our urethane drum
Dr. Chu and Dr. Aung from Lamar University for all their support
DXP enterprises for their donations
Allen-Bradley and Reynolds Electric Company for providing us with parts at cost prices
TSGC Coordinator Debbie Mullins, who is always a pleasure to work with
and finally our NASA JSC Mentor, Evelyne Orndoff, who submitted this project for study and supported our team throughout all of our work.