We focused on two aspects of our project in October: fundraising and recruiting mentors.  

Since we knew we were going to be notified about our grant proposal in the middle of October, we decided to focus on fundraising for the first half of the month. Our goal is for all twelve members to participate in EurekaFest that will take place in June at MIT. In order for this to happen, we needed to come up with a plan that would require little time but garner lots of profit. The proposed plan was to hold a Cup Noodle Fundraiser. We would sell Cup Noodles along with other treats such as chips, candy and chocolate with prices ranging from $1.00 to $2.00. We were able to set up a time table which listed out the jobs of each members during each period. Some members were in charge of boiling the water, some acted as cashiers, and some were in charge of buying the materials. The fundraiser lasted for 3 weeks.

Once we were notified of our acceptance into Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams, we held a mini-celebratory party and promised to show even more grit for the upcoming months. The moment the news hit the press, we started sending out emails to potential sponsors and mentors. Our main focus in terms of media was Fox News and ABC News. Then when it came to finding mentors, we asked universities such as Columbia University, Copper Union, and previous alumnis who majored in engineering and can provide asistance in building our prototype. We received an email from a professor at Cooper Union who was thrilled to participate in the building of our invention. He suggested we do a three minute video which we can play on the day of EurekaFest, keep a wikipage to keep track of all our research, as well as lending us his lab to use as our workspace. We have a meeting on November 4th for further discussion. We've also receieved an email from Zeus, an alumni of our school. He couldn't participate in the building of our invention but he can oversee our project designs. Lastly, we signed up for a TechTalk at our school. TechTalk is a monthly event where a presentar comes and discusses his job with the students of Baruch. The presenter for this month's TechTalk is Jeffrey Laut, an engineer and Ph.D candidate from NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, who invented equipment to monitor water quality on the Gowanus Canal.

We are now focusing on the background research of the mechanics behind our invention and the tools we need to build it. We have made our first purchase of a vacumn so we can can disaseemble the pieces and study the structure within. The main focus for November is to purchase all our tools and finalize our mentors for this project.