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

Getting to know the team... Part 1...

Here at Team WIN we all thought that it'd be nice if we just posted a little bit ourselves, so you can get to know us a little bit, there are nine of us in total so we will split it down into 3 posts of 3 people. In this first post we will take a look at Phil, Ryan and Emma!!

Phil Shilton

Phil is our Project Manager here at Team WIN, his favourite colour is orange, favourite topic at school was art, and favourite food is a carbonara calzone.

He likes football and ice hockey, and is a massive Nottingham Forest Football Club fan. And if you were wondering, yes he is a relative of the great Peter Shilton!!

If Phil was to summarise himself in one word, he said it would be creative!


Ryan Cape

Ryan is our main CAD Designer/Draughtsman, favourite topic at school was art, and his favourite food is curry, in particular a nice jalfrezi. His favourite colour is red!

Ryan plays cricket for the university team at Nottingham Trent and is a good all-rounder when it comes to playing.

If he was to summarise himself in one word it would also be creative.


Emma Eaton-Knight

Emma is our main school contact and community liaison officer in WIN. Her favourite topic is also art, favourite colour is orange and she loves French patisseries, her favourite is a pan au chocolat!

Emma is into horse riding, snow boarding, archery, shoe shopping and generally spending money!!

In one word, Emma has summarised herself with ginger!!


And so there you have it, the first 3 profiles of Team WIN, more coming soon...!!!