Blog 9. Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.

The class today was used as an opportunity to ask questions about the upcoming interactive class and also the e-portfolio. It is the time where all confusions were opened up and also asked things that are not clear relative to other parts of the module which I find very beneficial. 

By dividing our work for the e-portfolio last week, we are now more organized and our website is starting to look very professional and catchy. All our aims in the beginning are now slowly being accomplished. Truly, "Teamwork makes the dream work". We decided to keep adding stuffs we think will make it more interesting. The concept is to give a concise information yet covering all the details - bang on information. We don't want to overload our website with information which will bore our readers. However, for wide readers, references are inserted for them to do further reading. 

I can also see the relativity of other modules to this module. Everything I've learned in other modules have been applied in the production of our product. By this, it suggests how I've grown as a scientific thinker. Looking back from our first lecture where Barry was talking about how Bioprocessing is very beneficial, I can now understand the importance of it.

Draft outline of logo

Product Logo

As for the memo this week, our product logo has to be designed along with our tagline, target market and USP. We came up with a lot of different taglines, some funny ones, catchy and professional. The initial tagline we though was "Dengue No More" which we got from an article read in Drug Discovery and Synthesis - Malaria No More. However, it is too plain and very popular to us. So, we decided to go with "DEN-IV - The vaccine that touches the world". Our target market is the people who needs it more which are the ones in endemic areas and then travellers to prevent the spread of the disease on non-endemic countries. Our USP will be the vaccine that will target all four serotypes with a reasonable cost.

Thinking about all these was not easy. We spent hours discussing all these as a group and just like a normal group, we also had arguments especially in thinking about our tagline. However, in the end, we managed to agree on everything. Many different skills are indeed acquired and developed through this module. If ever I'm given the chance to work in a group again, it will be a lot easier through this experience. I am now better in voicing out my opinion with prepared back-up to support my argument.