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Updated Bioplatic Lab – Fanisi, Ward, Max

Lab report – bio-materials name: Fanisi, Max, Ward e-mail:  fm1581@nyu.edu , mab1312@nyu.edu , whm263@nyu.edu    Material:  We made biodegradable plastic with recipes that use potato starch and agar-agar powder. The outputs were materials that mimicked some of the properties of plastic.  Introduction or Purpose: The purpose of this lab was to create plastic out of materials such as potato starch, corn starch…

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Update on Project Plan: Fanisi, Hannah, & Ward

Updated Project Plan: Lanterns as a Legacy + = Climate change is expected to amplify extreme weather events, flooding, droughts, communicable disease outbreaks, and natural disasters. It is likely that access to electricity will often be disrupted: natural disasters and floods may disrupt power grids, droughts can spur wildfires and destroy infrastructure, and disease outbreaks may…

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Brainstorming Session – Mohammed and Pangna

Project Title: Cultural representation through arm bands design Creators: Mohammed And Pangna For our final project, due to the theme of the item being passed down from one generation to another, we decided that the theme of our project should have to do with it being cultural or an item showcasing some manner of familial…

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Hilina Bayew: Final Project Brainstorming (Ali, Hamad, Hilina)

  Our group consists of myself, Ali and Hamad. We took a while to  carefully think through the prompt in order to come up with a product that is both timeless and made from plastic. Our aim was to not only create a product but in the process to teach our grandchildren and further generations…

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