In preparation for the Year In Review and the BCGLP Symposium on May 23rd, the EDI Fellows put together blurbs about their projects to accompany their posters and presentations. We are featuring one every day until May 23rd. We hope you can join us. Here is Maguire McMahon ’20 describing the combined work by all the EDI Fellows.
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- The winning design.
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- Minor changes will be made to the winning design and will be built behind the Massey Center.
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- The hydroponic garden will be made with cedar wood …
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- and acrylic.
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- The Fellows built prototypes of the hydroponic garden during the Jan 2018 BCGLP Retreat.
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- EDI Fellows measured and cut acrylic.
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- Then they fused together acrylic pieces with a special glue, thanks to the advice and help of local company, Norva Plastics.
Maguire McMahon
Jarod Haley ‘20 of the Chesapeake Bay Fellows approached us to design and build a hydroponic garden, a soilless form of growing plants. The 2020 and 2019 EDI Fellows tackled the design challenge in three groups to develop three separate designs. My group’s plan was a hexagonal structure with an effective drainage system and constructed from cedar wood and acrylic plastic. The EDI Fellows then took this winning design and built two different prototypes to test our ideas. We intend to build the full-scale structure over the summer.