The Gatorade Check Valve of Tomorrow, Today

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The Gatorade Check Valve of Tomorrow, Today!

• Zeke Brody, Michael Pribble, Vivek Virani, Ben
  Weiss and Jonathan Wiggins

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Purpose

• To take water samples from Dead Run during
  different stream conditions.
• To find changes in water level over a period of
  time.

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Goals for This Year

• Design a collector
• Create a working model
• Produce enough units for the biology group
• Apply final result to the field

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Conditions

• Protecting the sample
• Samples done remotely
• Sample size

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Preliminary Design
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Modifications

• Double-tailed flapper
• Boxy flapper tail
• Extra hole in Gatorade cap

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Final Result
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Goals for Next Year

• Mass Production
• Apply final result to the field
• Extra modifications
• Solve threat of vandalism, theft, or damage from
  natural conditions