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Local Grown Salads
Local Grown Salads
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Zale Tabakman
Zale Tabakman
President
(29)
3
Project
Academic experience
200 hours per learner
Learner
Anywhere
Advanced level

Project scope

Categories
Data analysis Product or service launch Information technology
Skills
asana data architecture mobile application development documentation based coding application programming interface (api) vertical farming marketing project management back end (software engineering) android (operating system)
Details

Number of positions available: One or more teams with one or more students

We are creating an Indoor Vertical Farming system, and are working on creating a full seed to plate infrastructure.


We have 13 different subsystems:

Network - Manages the entire Farm Network

Assembly - An ERP system (extending Odoo) to manage the manufacturing

Agronomist - Maintains our grow formulas and marketing materials

Grower - A full analysis system to review all the farms

AI - (Not currently available) Uses the data in Grower to create new grow formulas

Gardner - Manages the hardware for the Vertical Acre according to the grow formula specifications

Pavilion - Manages the HVAC system according to the grow formula specifications

Germinator - Manages the hardware for the Incubator

Barn - Manages the farm

Farmer - An ERP system (extending Odoo) to manage the farm

Inspector - Monitors the equipment and production

Director - Provides an API to mobile applications and 3rd party software

Customer Layer - Mobile/Web applications

  • Distributor - applications for the distributor customers
  • Consumer App = This app is intended to interact with a consumer of our products.
  • Retailer App - For the retailer
  • Food Server App - For the Restaurant


The students will

a) Work with our Marketing Team to develop and test a UX

b) Work with our Data Architect to capture the relevant user data and store it in our DB

c) Write the App code to implement the App specification.

d) Be responsible for fixing any bugs.

e) Ensure the App meets all technical requirements of the Android and Apple app stores.


Here is a link to a summary of the all the applications and even more details

Deliverables

Skills students will develop:

  • Project management
  • Communication in a virtual environment
  • Familiarity with tools like Discord, Asana and GitLab
  • Taking responsibility
  • Presentation skills for a business environment.

We have a standardized development process:

  • Dataflow diagram
  • Roadmap
  • JIRA project Management
Mentorship

Teams have a product manager who provides direction and organization

We have a Discord server for regular communications

We regular team meetings

We provide help for job hunting - with a focus on LinkedIn


Supported causes
Climate action

About the company

Company
http://LocalGrownSalads.com
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
2 - 10 employees
Food & beverage, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Technology, Science

We are an Indoor Vertical Farming company. Check our website http://LocalGrownSalads.com.
We love working with Riipen Students.
We work with students from all around the world. In fact we say that the sun never sets on Local Grown Salads.
(Its true and its a pun on our Indoor Vertical Farming Technology)
We have ongoing relationships with Arizona State University, U of Texas, RMIT in Australia, University Canada West, to name a few..
We work with individuals or teams (typically doing a capstone)

We provide a Virtual work environment using Agile (using JIRA), Discord, AWS, ReTool, React Native, Postgres to name some of our tools.
Zoom, and other tools.
Students can expect
1) Mentoring
2) international Networking
3) An environment to learn and prepare themselves for a career.
3) a reference letter