Friday the 13th Brings Good Things

Friday the 13th Brings Good Things

RainWise is partnering up! As of today, we have received approval from the board of Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust (a charitable organization) to work on their community food hub,The Root. The Root is currently using bulk water for all their water needs. We hope to...
Overcoming Project Challenges

Overcoming Project Challenges

One of our biggest accomplishments this sprint is presenting our lo-fi prototype during our bi-weekly meeting to our Community Partner, Nigel. It was really rewarding to be able to deliver a working, albeit rough, draft of our proposed solution to the problem. It was...
Team reflection for the third sprint

Team reflection for the third sprint

In this sprint, some of the tasks that our team carried out were setting up Azure DevOps, follow up meeting with community partner and resolved frontend issues. Our team mostly focused on frontend issues these two weeks and we gave a demo of the issues that we fixed...

Balancing Act

Every week has had massive developments and changes. There is a whirlwind of ideas, perspectives, and sensitivities that have to be considered. This sprint has been no different! We’ve been put in touch with 4 high school students from Tuktoyaktuk (Tuk) who seem keen...
Challenges, Growth and Progress

Challenges, Growth and Progress

Over the past two weeks, our team has encountered a variety of challenges and achievements while working on our project. We started with some difficulties, particularly as newcomers dealing with merge conflicts. The workshops proved immensely beneficial for enhancing...
Touching Down

Touching Down

The past two weeks have really flown by! We’ve continued doing outreach and we’ve had more meetings than the first two weeks. We’ve been productive and we feel like we are getting somewhere. We’ve also gotten closer as a team. Our understanding of each other’s...