Happy New Year!

Rolla Design Team decided that we would participate in a new challenge, the CSULB Business and Engineering Innovation Challenge! Looks like they don't know too much about us designers, but we're going to take it on by a storm!

We have a great new mentor who introduced us to Mavenlink, a website that helps organize collaborative projects. We are meeting today for a first product design revision, as well as figure out our game plan for the final presentation in the innovation challenge. Business plans are due February 14th!

We will keep the same strategy, but change our product a little bit. Check back in a few weeks to see something awesome!!

A few photos from our final presentation/critique day.

Well, we did it. After 7 weeks of hard work and many hours of sleep lost, our Rolla Design Squad beat the 5 other teams in this "Designing as Entrepreneurs" project. This came after a really great business plan presentation last week, when our entrepreneur guest said he had never seen a more thorough business plan in his life before! "Blew his socks off his feet!" was the expression!

We were so happy! Personally, I had been wanting to excel in this project since the very first beginning. I really found my passion, especially when I first got chosen as team leader to continue with my concept. Then when I saw my team was really excited and willing to work hard on it too, everything fell together. We had the right "glue" in our team to make things happen, said John.

This is the board we presented on Wednesday:

And guess what! Just learned that the day after the presentation it was Mike's birthday! Happy Birthday Mike!

Thanks for viewing,

Alix

Hey everyone! We're still working on our business plan, trying to make it the best we can! Mike and I are here at some hour I won't mention doing the final touches. Presentation tomorrow!

Luckily, we had fun Saturday night with our team, we all went out to a party for the Junior ID and IA and had a blast! Check it out! :)

Today we presented our first draft of the business plan. So far so good! We just have to make it "prettier" with info graphics, images and charts.
We made good progress today by finalizing a frame design for Rolla and getting really close to the final design for the canvas bag.

Meeting again tomorrow!