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After the registration the team set up weekly meetings to plan the work of each week. Also each member of the team adopted a project area. The distribution of areas was agreed by all members.
We agreed that the responsible of each area would coordinate all the activities of that specific area. However, all team members are responsible for asisting in the areas applying for aid.
Each area has to report their advance and show their main activities for next weeks. With this assigment we are training our leadership and planning skills on each member.

Project areas and responsibles

We received an invitation for a contest conducted by Aplica tu Idea and Fundacion COPEC UC where you can give a short pitch on 3 minutes to present your idea. The first place wins $ 200 to support the project. Despite the price was less than 1% of our budget it was a great oportunity to show our project and get prepaired to next presentations.
Gustavo Calvo was in charge of creating the speech and make the presentation at the headquarters of the Universidad Católica. He obtained the Second place on the contest and was awarded with a special price for the team. Although we did not get 200 dollars, the contest opened our way to make the project better known.

One of the main task given by Open Bucheff was to collect 4 interest letters from different organizations. It was a necessary task if we want to gain our Faculty support. That was how our team members began to contact institutions that could write their letters of interest to us. We collected a total of 6 letters of interest
David Sepulveda brought the following letters
(1) Leandro Valencia, La Ruta Solar.
(2) Fernán Federici, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology. Faculty of Cs. Biological. Universidad Católica de Chile.
Also, Severine Cazaux brought 3 letters
(1) Juan Cristobal Zagal, Fablab UChile, Santiago.
(2) Claudia Tellez, Comisión Chilena de cooperación con UNESCO
(3)Andrés Briceño, Co-Director FabLab
Finally, Noemi Miranda helped us with 1 letter
(1) Marcelo Mena Carrasco, Undersecretary Ministry of Environment
Those letters realy helped us to support our project when we faced our next sponsors of the project. Sponsors realy appreciate this cards and they get more interested on the project.

OpenBeauchef consists of a co-working space (collaborative work) that FCFM facilities. It is located at 851 Avenue Beauchef in the OpenLab. It is designed to create a meeting place for cooperative activities that allow interaction between various innovation actors. It includes students, researchers and developers from every faculty of the Universidad de Chile, together with participants from academia, business, public sector, graduates and investors.

The contact was made first by Severine Cazaux , who tried to contact our Dean Faculty. At first he conducted us to the OpenLab to obtain some team support. They helped us with Mentoring through 2 workshops where we could see our team interests and availability for the project. They also gave us some tasks to gain support on the project: We had to collect 4 interests letters related to our project.
After that and other meetings they wrote a report of the team with the results of the activities. Finally they gave us tips for our team work.
It realy helped us to align all members interests. Also it was our first approachment to our Faculty.

Our Budget was made for 9 members of the team and then was agregated the team instructor.

This budget was made by Ignacio Ardiles, with collaboration of David Sepulveda . It definitely helped us to convince sponsors to finance the remaining costs of the team. This budget gave them clarity on the use that will be given to the funds that they will provide.

After that, we realized that some items of the budget exceeded the estimated cost. As the cost of clothing and networking far exceeded our expectations. This has finally conditioned us to readjust the cost of food and transport at a much lower amount than initially estimated. Get more details of the budget attached on link.