INDEPENDENCE DAY "ENERGY IDEPENDENCE"

Stay tuned for a GREAT AMERICAN STORY (Unfolding in MICHIGAN)

July 3, 2009 5:30PM Ray Frank' NEW Michigan-Made Windspire Successfully Installed and Generating Energy in 14 (mph) Winds.

CONGRATULATIONS to Mr. Frank (First Windspire Customer in Michigan Lower Penninsula) and Mr. Bates (Southern Exposure Renewable Energy)

Pictures to follow:

The Scentific Method

Unintended Consequences: BEARING RESOLUTION

BEARING RESOLUTION

Confirmed: Mariah Power has scheduled delivery of a MAS-Tech, Manistee, Michigan-Made WINDSPIRE Verticle Axis Wind Trubine to MMSTC in early July, 2009 (Jim Bates, Southern Exposure Renewable Energy)

*Exacting details (date, time, etc.) to follow

• Question: What preparations should be taken to prepare for this delivery, installation and all appropriate follow-on activities, ceremonies, press-realtionships, etc.?

Other:

MMSTC Meeting: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 4:00PM

AGENDA

See: MMSTC blog-site "post" MMSTC Meeting: Monday, June 22, 2009 (Pictures & Video)

Review: Yesterday's Windspire Assembly Work in Progress

• Comments (Lesson's Learned, insights, etc.)
  
• Typical Unintended-Consequences: Example "bolt-disappearance & resolution"
  
• Other:
  

Today's Goals & Objectives: Final Assembly, Installation, etc.

• What preparations should be in place for final assembly?
  
• What preparations should be in place for final (1st of kind) installation?


• Teamed Assignment of responsibilities
  

Execution: Today

Review: Today's execution (HOLDING on BEARING RESOLUTION)

Comments, Insights, Questions, Concerns, etc.

Next-steps, scheduling, etc.

Adjourn!

MMSTC Meeting: Monday, June 22, 2009 8:30AM (PLAN your Work, WORK your Plan, FAIL to Plan, PLAN to Fail)

AGENDA

Review video (ABC 20/20 NEW NORMAL: Workers Learn New Skills)
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7886884

Update and create NEW 90-Day Schedule of Events Overview

Determine Plan for today's work

• Execute Plan

Review Today's Execution: Determine next-steps, scheduling issues, questions, concerns, etc.

• Update 90-Day Schedule Plan Accordingly
• Post 90-Day Schedule, today's meeting minutes, pictures, etc. to MMSTC blog-site

Adjourn!

21st Century Foresight (Seeds of New Beginnings)

NEW NORMAL: Workers Learn New Skills
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7886884

Leadership 101

The magic behind the dramatic and enduring impact of creative elegance, while it remains rare and radical, is not new. Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu understood the power of the missing piece when he wrote this verse over 2500 years ago:

Thirty spokes share the wheel’s hub,
It is the centre hole that makes it useful.
Shape clay into a vessel,
It is the space within that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows for a room,
It is the holes which make it useful.
Therefore profit comes from what is there,
Usefulness from what is not there.

When the Ship is foundering from a vacuum of Leadership; True Leadership is merely something someone does (essence of phone conversaton 6-13-2009).

30 Days in the Hole, Comes to a Close! (Stay Tuned)

Digital Learning Virtual Education 3.0

ONE of those "Ya had to be there" moments!

SHOWING THE GOVERNOR AROUND: MasTech General Manager John Holcomb led Gov. Jennifer Granholm on a tour of the facility where production of Mariah Power’s Windspire officially kicked off on Monday.

Update: CPC Students Cage-Build / Initial Foundation Dig / LOOK WHAT WE FOUND!

Conceptual Thinking on Wind Power

Meeting: MMSTC-CPC Windspire Installation 3-24-2009 4:00PM

AGENDA

*(MMSTC Student Engagement / Documentation of Process)
*(CPC-Build Team)

Schedule Calendar (Dates)

*Fabrication of cage

*Rigging Hoist

*Foundation Dig

*Foundation pour

*Cure-time

*Windspire Installation

*Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony


Other:

Sensors technology?

Macomb Global Trade Mission?

MPSC Grant / Update? (Lead Real-World Business Contact for Grant) (Need copy of Grant to frame understanding)

Identification of Additional Technology Grant


Jim Bates narrative:
There will be the parts needed to form the re-rod cage needed for the foundation to be installed in the near future for the courtyard Windspire. We will also have to discuss the means by which the tower will be raised in the courtyard and all the dynamics involved in that process.

The actual agenda for the afternoon is to begin the Student Team centered discovery and discussions for the plan going forward for both the installation of the Winsdpire in the Courtyard and perhaps more importantly to encourage and discuss all elements encountered in the process. Leaving no stone unturned,each participant is encouraged to stretch their powers of observation and to help create a guide regading all aspects of the installation of small wind turbines. The focus of our intention is to safely and efficiently install the Windpsire. More importantly though it is important to create a guide that will pose questions in future readers and participants minds. Questions that draw them into becoming engaged in this process of discovery. I believe, that part of each team members reponsibility is to pose at least two questions that need to be addressed to more fully understand the physics of Renewable Energies. Beginning with a focus on all elements of this installation, then concentrically growing the conversation, not dissimilar to the pebble in the pond creating harmonic ripples traveling outwards that will lead to further understandings.This really is about the very foundational conversations and discovery about what the WCS Renewable Energy Institute is really about.What We will not be is "A Ship Out To Sea Without A Rudder"

Sixth Sense Debuts