Vincent talks #SharksDen: Day 3

by Vincent Khau

Day 3 of Shark’s Den meant we were already at the halfway mark of this exciting innovation challenge yet it only seemed like yesterday that we had met our fellow team members. We were now rapidly approaching the pointy end of things and ideas were flying out left right and centre as teams worked together to produce a marketable product.

The first hour flew by as each team quickly discussed the prototype designs that they were going to 3D print, before the CTOs were whisked away by Paul and given a tour of UniMelb’s 3D printing facilities, along with a demonstration of how they worked. Everyone was palpably excited as they learnt about both the advantages and (present) limitations of this fascinating additive manufacturing process. During this time, the remaining team pooled their minds together and increased their efforts to further refine and reiterate on their existing product, now calculating and ironing out the technical details of design, trying to bring the product to life; out from the confines of their minds and into the real world.

The teams were fortunate enough to have the expertise of Gil who came along to give advice to each team on their product, getting them started on not only thinking about the current design, but future considerations of the growth and development of their product.

As the end of the session approached, the teams rushed to get their models off to the 3D printers. This acted merely a starting point from which they need to produce rapid reiterations to get their product ready for their pitch on the 29th of July.

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