Group 30 - Taste Tea Experiment

Day 1: assigned our project
Today we were assigned the bitter tea experiment. The tea is a special tea usually used by diabetics to control hunger. The tea is not sold in stores so obtaining it is going to be a little hard but our teacher told us that he has them and that a bag cost about $1.16. the whole point of the demonstration is to show how our taste buds can be dulled by chemicals in the tea, the tea will completely turn off the ability to taste sweetness.
so lets hope this surprises people.


We just got done picking the jobs for each member and are starting on the hand out 11 and 12

Handout 11 and Handout 12

Starting off good!! kinda a surprised that we picked up three more members but we are making it work and are ready to make the best out of it !


Day 2: Starting to look up some information on past experiments and demonstrations
Today we were assigned to gather some information on previous experiments done that relate to ours. We started to figure out how to correctly do the APA style citing. It seemed like a lot of other people have tried this experiment to help them lose weight or control their hunger for sugar as diabetics. Some of the articles we found were
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3592606/
http://www.pharmatutor.org/articles/antidibetic-evaluation-of-gymnema-sylvestre-extracts-experimental-animals

and we are still working on getting more to build more information and backing into our project,
Kinda struggling on what is good to use and what is not so good. also finding experiments used on people are very rare to find , so that setting us back just a little but we will over come it quick. Other then that todays seems to be a productive day for the short time we had to work on it

Day3: Today was a finish up day , we touched up on or background information, we finally finished it and are now moving on to the next work sheet ahead of schedule, so today is going to be a little bit of a slower day where we will look over all the information we gathered and turn it all in.
Worksheet 13: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QwvIza6M4XXpKcBg6eFubhanQqeskCSmInAiFo4h7to/edit

Since we have two members missing and are ahead a little we will take this day to kinda take it slower, but we have gone over the last two sheets left to turn in on Monday. Hopefully this will all go smooth. We are kinda confused on the variables and how to create our hypothesis but we will all sit down when we are all here hopefully tomorrow

Day 4: today we are going to finish hand outs 14 and 15
Worksheet 14 :https://docs.google.com/document/d/11sVVWF4Bu5BlXcypZNg8vgqQW2qPr16QPO7MV6-FYZ8/edit?ts=56e1bca4

Worksheet 15:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11UgLiW1MksFIp7qCiN5cs-JLl4J6LDVlA7ljCiUvKO0/edit?ts=56e3103e
our thesis is coming together
Thesis: By drinking gymnema tea it will alter the taste of chocolate after drinking the tea because of the change in gustatory cells.

We hit a little bit of  a roadblock when figuring out topics and relationships and putting it all together but we sat down and talked over it all and finally got our barring straight and are on the right path.
We have also broken up the work equally with the most people on the hardest ones and one person on the easy work sheet. and hope to finish it today to have monday to kick start the next two sheets

Day 5: today we are starting to secure exactly how we are going to carry out our demonstration and attract people to come and experience our demonstration. we have a good idea on how we are going to carry out the demonstration and what are focus is going to be. But knowing the conditions and location of the fair we will defiantly have to adjust to what happens.
So far so good though, we decided how we are going to gather the resources and get them all together at the fair. Jobs and goals have been assigned and i think we have a clear path set, lets hope it doesn't all go to hell in a hand-basket when the fair starts

Day 6: we started our rough draft and centered down on our materials needed, its kinda slowed down at the moment, mostly because we are working out who does what and when, hopefully we figure it all out.
Here is our materials list :
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DDZWpAN1UE15YYhCFASUv_3PjgUNiXY3MoKlpJrxce4/edit?ts=56e84716
But just like all of the the other 5 days we have set our goals out and have been sticking to them, hopefully it all pays out. Kinda a boring day to be honest because its kinda the nitty gritty work now, working on a rough draft and all. But Psych fair is only a week and two days away!!
On to the next day.

Day 7 : Nothing much to report on today, just working on our rough draft more and collecting materials.All seems to be good no sweats or tears yet. But the day is still young and the fair is only days away.

Day 8: everything is all coming together we have all of our resources, just waiting to do our poster and kinda get the hang of it. Some of us are nervous, especially me. but we finished all of the handouts and are turning it all in. Now all that is let is to split up and assign what we are all going to do the day of the fair. Kinda hope all the tea docent make a mess in my trunk, mostly because its a new car and second because there goes our project

Day 9: Not a very strong day, we are missing one member , and he was assigned to bring in the poster board. So thats a downer for us, but we have the whole weekend along with Monday and Tuesday to work on it. But other then that we have all of our material and a good idea on how to carry out our experiment. We created the questioner that we are going to have the people we test on fill out after we are finished.
Questioner:
https://docs.google.com/a/d230.org/forms/d/1h1j0d4RUdC-BkrsB_5pR8Vw7yvFJJEXUALCbbHIQZq4/viewform

Day 10: The fair is only two days away. We are going strong all of our materials are done and our poster is started. nothing really much holding us back besides trying to condense information and making sure all of our pictures match up. But we have today and tomorrow to figure out, so we should be good. Time is a ticking

Day 11: the last day before the psych fair. all things are ready to go for parents night tonight. hopefully any errors we can fix if they come up. our group members will be short one the day of the fair but we can make it work. hopefully the forms will work and nothing fails or breaks. The last worry is that we will end up out of tea close to the end of the day but we will have to limit how much we give out and to make sure we dont give the stuff to the same people
day 12: day of the Psych fair all went good, thank good
Pics
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7p9T53Avr8vcU1UR1NOZWJBRm9ydUpKZDVfNVNhVmJyNi1n

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7p9T53Avr8vcU1UR1NOZWJBRm9ydUpKZDVfNVNhVmJyNi1n

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7p9T53Avr8vcU1UR1NOZWJBRm9ydUpKZDVfNVNhVmJyNi1n

Day 13: the psych fair is over, we had a few days to calm down and look over our information and statistics. Its looking good so far, our hypothesis was close. WE did have a few hiccups because of people not fully tasting in general or being super tasters so that threw off the amount of people who's taste was affected. But we should be able to draw the same conclusion. But on all the experiments went great.