Highlights
March
- Public engagement: 2nd - High School Introductory Topics
April
- Mathematical model: 7th - Dropped the work on previous models, began research for the current model
- Legal assessment: 16th - The idea arises in the brainstorming to make proposals for regulations for bees.
- Human practices: 28th - Meeting with Guillermo Rodríguez, president of the Cuauhtémoc city beekeepers’ association
May
- Human practices: 5th - Monthly beekeepers’ association reunion in Cuauhtémoc
- Collaboration: 16th - Team Valencia UPV video call
- Entrepreneurship: 17th- Meeting with last year iGEM Tec Chihuahua 2017 entrepreneurship members José Luis Quintana and María Elena Carrillo. First steps to emprendre in our project based on their experience
- Collaboration: 20th - Team Tec Monterrey GDL video call
- Entrepreneurship: 21th - Innovation Week
- Entrepreneurship: 25th- Meeting with Claudia Ortega, our entrepreneurship instructor. How to obtain valuable data with an efficient interview model. We visualized the importance of international feedback
- Human practices: 26th - Meeting with Ing. Manuel Ramírez Salcido, a beekeeper from Delicias city
- Legal assessment: 28th - 1st meeting with Arely Varela
June
- Legal assessment: 6th - Meeting with one of our advisors, Joel Hernádez, proposal of something that comes out of the theoretical.
- Human practices: 7th – Video call with MVZ Ernesto Tanús Sánchez
- Legal assessment: 6th - 2nd meeting with Arely Varela, where it is mentioned that we have to address the issue of food, justifying that there will be no justification in honey, assessing zoosanitary risks. We start to read all those regulations that are relationated with our project.
- Human practices: 15th - Center for Research in Food and Development A.C. (CIAD) visit
- Human practices: 15th - Meeting with Ing. Alejandro Bianchi in Queretaro city
- Entrepreneurship: 15th - Training Day
- Entrepreneurship: 13th- Meeting with Luis Almanza. Writing a business plan is the last step; first, we must create a business model canvas
- Collaboration: 19th - Team NYU Abu Dhabi
- Legal assessment: 20th - 3rd meeting with Arely Varela, we considered to elaborate an Official Mexican Standard (NOM) regarding how to work with larvae in the laboratory.
- Human practices: 27th - Meeting with MVZ Ernesto Tanús Sánchez, MVZ Adolfo Arroyo, and Ing. José Luis González Miranda.
- Collaboration: 29th - Team UChile Biotec
July
- Collaboration: 9th - Team NCKU Tainan
- Entrepreneurship: 11th- Meeting with Claudia Ortega. We must document the updated versions of our project based on our customer feedback. We must be sure we cover our local and national beekeepers
- 14th - Latin American Meetup
- Human practices: 16th - Valencian beekeeper interview
- Human practices: 17th - Video call with MVZ Juan Diego Pérez de la Rosa
- Human practices: 19th - Video call with FAI presidential staff member Lorenzo Della Morte
- Entrepreneurship: 19th- Meeting with Claudia Ortega. We evaluated who would be our key partnerships
- Entrepreneurship: 20-21th- Meeting with Ricardo Camilo Chávez and Minerva Castellanos. Our business plan must be understandable and enjoyable to read
- Human practices: 27th - IV State Apicultural Forum
- Collaboration: 27th - Team Dusseldorf
Agust
- Public engagement: 1st - Science Clubs Mexico 2018
- Legal assessment: 15th - 4th meeting with Arely Varela, starts the formal search of the point of convergence and along with it the legal plan, since it does not work if we go law by law, we must synthesize and add the sources that validate the argument
- Entrepreneurship: 24th- Meeting with Raúl Lizarraras. He helped answer iGEM teams' questions regarding entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship: 24th- Meeting with Elías Solís. He helped answer iGEM teams' questions regarding intellectual property
- Human practices: 25th - Video call with Ph.D. David De Jong
Septiembre
- Entrepreneurship: 11th- Meeting with Larissa Uribe. She helped answer iGEM teams' questions regarding entrepreneurship
- Mathematical model : 12th - 1st meeting with Raime Bustos. He checked our mathematical model and offered help where we were stuck.
- Mathematical model: 18th - 2nd meeting with Raime Bustos. Revision of progress and feedback.
- Human practices: 18th - Video call with Dr. María Mercedes Roca
- Public engagement: 18th - UVM High School presentation
- Entrepreneurship: 19th- Meeting with Luis Alamanza. How to make a market segmentation, we were introduced to the named "pains and gains", we sent him our business plan
- Human practices: 22th - Video call with Bryan Saavedra, Chilean beekeeper
October
- Human practices: 2nd - Video call with Dr. Ernesto Guzmán Novoa
- Entrepreneurship: 02nd- Meeting with Claudia Ortega. Details on the business plan, development of the company´s projection
- Mathematical model: 5th - 3a junta Raime. Final feedback on the mathematical model.
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