Getting to know the team... Part 3...

As we saw you all clearly loved the latest of the team profiles, part 2... we thought we'd treat to the last and final section of getting to know the team!! In this post we follow Laurence, Rhys and Callum.

Callum Bott

Callum is in charge of the PR & media side within Team WIN, so yes I am currently writing about myself if you did wonder. Back in school my favourite topic was geography (it probably still would be), my favourite colour is red (after my beloved football club), and my favourite food is pizza, but in particular a good calzone, you cannot beat a good Italian pizza!

In my spare time I am a massive outdoors person, spend a lot of time hiking around the UK, rock climbing and orienteering. I also love playing FIFA on the PS3, and watching football (though not biased towards Liverpool what so ever).

In a word I would describe myself as adventurous.

Laurence White

Laurence is our site man, he is in charge of the site analysis at East Bridgford Hill and also attended the school on behalf of team WIN. Laurence's favourite topic at school was maths, his favourite colour white (wonder why that is), and he loves doughnuts! Though they cannot be the ring ones but will take any filling.

He likes ITF Taekwondo, orienteering and playing on game consoles, but favours his Xbox 360.

In a single word he said he would say he was scruffy... which if you saw his hair you would probably agree... sorry Laurence...

Rhys Bevins

Rhys is one of the researchers at WIN, whether is be history or materials Rhys is the man on the job! Favourite topic at school was maths, favourite colour white, and his favourite food a full English breakfast with glass of freshly squeezed orange juice.

Rhys is passionate about Motorsports and in one word summed himself up as hard-working.

Well that's it for the team profiles of Team WIN, we hope you enjoyed them and feel like you know us all a little bit better.

TTFN

Walking In Nature

Getting to know the team... Part 2...

We hoped you enjoyed the getting to know the team section the first time, that much in fact we've decided to give you another three profiles!!

In this post we'll be looking at Ben, Georgina and Jessica.

Benjamin Thomas

Benjamin aka Ben is the Head Researcher here at WIN, he is specialising in precedents and materials. At school his favourite topic was geography, his favourite colour is green, and his favourite food is a steak, done blue with no sauce!

In his spare time Ben likes country pursuits, skiing and travelling. Val D'Isere, France is the place he named as his favourite place he has ever visited so far.

In one word he summed himself as detailed.


Georgina Hallam

Georgina is the Sectary within the team. She takes group minutes, organises meetings, and generally has some fantastic ideas for the team. Her favourite colour is blue, favourite school topic was maths, and favourite food is crisps, in particular salt & vinegar or quavers!

Her interests are buildings, shopping, and watching films.

She struggled to think of a word to sum herself up in but eventually went for indecisive! Non the less we wouldn't change anything about her.


Jessica Chan

Jess's role within the team is as a designer and researcher. Favourite colour is purple, and favourite topic at school was maths. Jess loves chocolate and especially Galaxy bars.

In her spare time Jess likes drawing, and to self learn languages.

One word she used to describe herself: artistic.


There you go everyone another 3 profiles for you, the last 3 will be coming soon, so stay tuned!!

The School Visit

It was a cold winters day in late November and team member Laurence White visited St. Peter's Primary School in East Bridgford along with several other A.T.'s from our course.

The main outcome of this visit was to get the children from the school involved, get them interested in the project, get their minds running with crazy ideas on what they want in their classroom, after all they do say a child's imagination is limitless and they may have some great ideas.

Upon arrival the group held a short presentation to the children, this was ran by Scott Eburne.

After this the team, went with a small focus group of about 20 from the school environment club and let there imagination run wild with what they wanted...

Below are some photos of the members interacting with the children:

(Above) Laurence and Helen talking to some of the children

(Above) Luke (background) and Tom Kirk (foreground)

(Above) Scott talking to the children

(Above) Shraddha talking and laughing with the kids

Lots of ideas were gathered from the children. Our Project Manager proposed the idea of making a leaflet which could be filled out with words or pictures to engage the children on a real level to see what they want, it included headings like what to you want in the school? What animals to you want there? What would they like to cook? What food would you like to grow? What features inside? Etc, etc. Some of the responses were very imaginative and included from bird houses to snakes & worms! Apple trees to carrots! And large windows and paintings of there own work inside the building.

Overall going to the school was a very informative, helpful and refreshing trip! It engaged and infused not only us as A.T.'s but the children, and this is what we wanted, to get their imagination running with ideas and thoughts!

At the end of the session there it ended with a nice team photo (only after a few shots though)...

(Take 1, above)

29/11/2012

Second Year NTU A.T.'s 2012/13 with the Environment Club of St Peter's Primary School, East Bridgford

(Take 2, above (the final take))

Site Visit

December 5th 2012

Wednesday afternoon, early December, yep you guessed it folks... It was cold, and today was surveying day of the site.

This hard, freezing cold task was handed out (they volunteered really) to team members Laurence White (chief surveyor), Phil Shilton, Ben Thomas and Callum Bott (camera man).

Despite it being quite cold, the four of us surprisingly had a good time surveyor up, in particular Ben with the dist-o-meter. After a couple hours of surveying everything we needed had been recorded, and Emma, our client invited us in for a cuppa tea to warm up, which was very welcomed indeed.

We also got chance to share some ideas that had come up on our side already but also that had been running around in her head.

Just before dark started to draw in we decided to call it a day and head back to Nottingham with the data recorded and some good ideas from Emma.

Here are a few photos from the visit:

Getting the equipment from the Surveying Store at university

Laurence and Phil when we arrived at site

YES! There are ducks!

Walking to the site location at East Bridgford Hill

Let the surveying begin...

I needed a photo of myself in here somewhere... (Callum - blue coat, aka the camera man for the day)

Laurence issuing his instructions to Ben and Phil

Phil reading off a measurement

Laurence still issuing his orders

Phil... In a bush...

Ben being blinded by the low winter Sun

Laurence recording data

Reading measurements

The tree closest to the road near the site

Looking out onto the field adjacent to the site

More measuring

The four Horse Chestnut trees on site

Ben using the dist-o-meter

Taking levels of the site

Levels of the earth mound wall on the site next to the road

Measuring the girth of the trees

Well I hope you enjoyed this post on our site visit, keep an eye out for more posts coming soon!!

Regards

Team WIN