The Horse 2019/20

Technology & Environment

Project planning / Step 4: Shape and create

Since we already promoted our idea with a small film at the beginning of the school project, we wanted to work with films in the main project as well. In a simple learning video we wanted to explain in a simple way what the challenges in shipping are.

The first thing we thought about was, which 3 challenges come first. So it was possible for us to split up and collect each of us on the various challenges on the Internet. After the text was written, we created the appropriate videos.

On the Internet, we searched for suitable programs in the field of animated films that can be used free of charge. We chose the "Animaker" website. First we had to get to know the program and understand how to use it. Since not all applications within the program are free, we had to be creative. The time per film was also limited to 2 minutes. So we had to limit ourselves in terms of content and bring only the most important facts.

So that the educational films had an appealing background music, we searched the internet for music that could be used free of charge. We were able to find the right pieces of music on Bensound and mentioned the source accordingly in the films.

We wanted to reproduce the interviews as we had conducted them with the two companies. We therefore decided to make the interviews available in PDF form in English and German at the end of the article.

Team Transportation, Wetzikon, Switzerland

Matthias and Jeannine, BM2 TZ19

Project Planing / Step 7: Promote and get feedback

With this step we would like to announce our project "Maritime Transportation of Food". 

We thank the web publishers for uploading our project on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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Cargo Ship / Hamburg, photographer: private
 
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Main Title:
"Maritime Transportation of Food"
 
Subtitle:
"Challenges in the transport of sea freight"
 
Main Text:

Modern shipping is challenged more than ever today. In our project we address three of the most important challenges: Quality - Quantities - Sustainability.

Tropical fruits for example should be available whenever possible, fresh and at a good price. Learn more about the transport of food by ship through our project!

Transportation Team Switzerland

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Pitching our Project Idea: Maritime Transportation of Food

We believe we have found a topic that could be very interesting for an international project. 

When we walk through the aisles in the shops today, we notice that more than half of the products come from abroad. This raises the question: Where do these products come from? And how did they find their way to our shops? We would like to focus our attention on the transport of food by sea.

Check out our video on Vimeo:

Are you interested to work with us on that topic? Then join our team and contact us!

Kind regards,

Matthias and Jeannine from Switzerland (Wetzikon)

My experience with the Food App: KoBo Toolbox

It was our job to register every meal and every snack in the Toolbox for a week.
Because I tend to forget such regular tasks, I've stuck a post-it note in three different places.  One in the phonecase, one in the wallet and one on the kitchen cupboard. That helped me, not forgetting to enter my food in the Toolbox.

The app is clearly structured and easy to use. My difficulty was the part where I had to choose what ingredients were in my food. I completed it as well as possible and now hope that my data is "usable" for the evaluation.

If there is an overhang of yogurt in the evaluation, then it is because of me. :-)

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Jeannine Herren, BM2 TZ19

Project idea: edible packaging material

What if you could eat the packaging off your food instead of throw it into the bin?

Some startup companies are on a good way to invent new technologies to wrap our food into edible foils or packaging. That is inspiring, isn't it?

Check out following links:

Edible packaging made from seaweed (materialdistrict)

Edible or biodegradable packaging for food (newfood magazine)

Essbare Verpackung aus Milch (eatsmarter.de)

Edible, biodegradable food packaging (youtube)

Edible plastic is here, and it tastes like... (youtube)

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Jeannine Herren, BM2 TZ19