4.5 Team Strengths and Qualifications Philippe has had previous experience in working with kids in the age group of the intended audience. We feel that this makes him uniquely positioned to give us valuable perspective on what would appeal to the senses of these kids. Casey and Kalpesh have strong web application development backgrounds. Joe and Ken have had previous experience with java applets and the awt and Swing GUI toolkits. Philippe, Richard, Joe and Ken have strong programming skills and Casey is strong in graphics.
Additional goals are to make the process entertaining and fun.
In reviewing the previous project, Geneducation , we found that it was not as interactive as it should be. Most of the tutorial was just basic reading that you would get from a text book. To make it more interactive, we would like to show how genetic traits tend to propagate among living creatures as they propagate. We can use people, rabbits, beans, and other organisms to assist us. The students would select which organisms they want to reproduce and we will show them the probable genetic results.