The first thing I would like to say is go to FEAMP it rocks! It didn’t
really matter if you had done
subjects like physics, chemistry or Maths B/C
because you didn’t have to prove
if your product would follow the laws of
these subjects. Basically, your
team members and yourself designed, or
entrepreneured shall I say, a
scientific product and learnt how to sell it.
The camp focussed on how to sell
a scientific product, which is quite
important. Over the three days
before the trade show we did everything from
business plans, design, marketing
and managing to negotiating for the
millions of dollars required to
manufacture the product (which was quite
scary but fun. Our project was
$1.2 mil for one year and we owned 80% of the
company – you do the figures =
$$$). Then during the trade show you sold
your product to prospective
buyers by doing the whole sales pitch thing. It
was great because I met lots of
people and if you are a girl don’t feel
intimidated by the whole male
dominated engineering idea cause there was
probably more girls than boys. We
met some really interesting entrepreneurs,
engineers and businessmen and
learnt a lot of valuable lessons. In
conclusion, FEAMP was awesome!
Oh, and we went to paintball too!
