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// **Our News Updates ** //

Welcome to ‘our news updates' page, each week I will be keeping you up to date with the latest news and information into team I-puzzle and our mission.

**Week 1 **
//‘Get Thinking’// Team I-puzzle consisting of Cassandra Fern (Environmental Scientist), Veronica Harris (Engineer), Elly Bloom (Agricultural Scientist), Ella Hamilton (Economist) and myself Louise Carter (Journalist) this week are excited to begin exploring into the island. This week the team has been working on recommendation regarding possible locations for human settlement. In taking on this task there where many factors that our team had to take into consideration. We looked at the map and considered all the condition that may occur on the island. Questions where quickly formed surrounding these possible settlement areas and we are devoted to working closely together to find the answers in order to make a sustainable new human settlement. Please feel free to look at out ‘recommendation’ page where you find in detail our justifications for the possible settlement areas on the island.

Louise Carter

//‘Increasing Energy Levels’// Welcome to week 2, there are certainly high energy levels within our team as we begin to look deeper into our mission. This week the I-puzzle team is working closely with our Engineer Veronica Harris to explore and decide on the energy source, communication and transport for the island. We are focused on﻿ looking at the area of the port. With Veronica leading the way we looked into a range of different methods to ensure that the source of energy, communication and transport suits our settlement and is environmentally friendly. Veronica has used her expertise and worked extremely hard to ensure that her recommendation have been made with deep consideration. After speaking with Veronica it was brought to the team’s attention that our team is trying to keep our transport around the island as eco friendly as possible but we need to consider transportation of goods to other settlements. It has been an exciting week, with many great discussion and ideas, from the I-puzzle a special mentioned needs to be given to Veronica for her leadership this week.
 * Week 2 **

Louise Carter

//﻿"Money Money"// We are defiantly digging deeper into making important decisions surrounding the settlement for the island. This week, it’s all about getting our heads together to think about our Economic system to be put in place for our island. We had an absence this week for our leading economist but I had the opportunity to listen to some other task force group’s recommendations. There were some excitin﻿g ideas, firstly majority of the groups recommended that the islands needs its own currency and there needs to be trade between the settlements. One of the justifications for this is because the teams agree we need to utilize and share the resources that the Island provides in an equitable manner. The establishment of a currency will be imperative to achieve this aim. Some exciting ideas I can report back on from this week are an idea for exporting organic skin care using the natural botanicals on the island and a luxury eco-friendly resort. The great ideas just keep flowing. Looking forward to next week working together to think of recommendations for government ideas for the island. Keep up the good work.
 * Week 3 **
 * Week 3 **

Louise Carter

//“Responsibility for the island”// It had been 3 years since we herd from our Task Force Command. In this time i-Puzzle has been working endlessly to continue full steam ahead with our recommendations. Our teamwork has been outstanding and this week we continued to show this through our government recommendations. It was an important week; government was not something to think about lightly. I-puzzle decided to think outside the box with our recommendations. We certainly believe that the people on our island are all seen as equal members of society. This is defiantly demonstrated through our idea of a community fund. No person will be seen as rich or poor, better or worse. The people on the island will make no individual wages; instead our government will be responsible for giving equal allowances to the people no matter their occupation. Our team has yet again worked extremely hard and we are very proud of our work. We truly believe our government recommendations will ensure the island is a place of equality. Great work team, looking forward to tackling next weeks task.
 * Week 4 **

Louise Carter

//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">“Going Bananas” // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">This week was definitely had its highs and lows for our team. Everything had been running smoothly but S.M.I.T had informed us there could be plans to withdraw for the island. This is due to an infestation of banana aphid has been found in the Banana plantation at The Port. This personally hit close to home for team i-puzzle because this is our port. As the spirit of our team we ensured ourselves that through hard work and determination we could get to the bottom of this problem and begin action to prevent the disease from further spreading and find prevention strategies. I had the opportunity to speak to a David Tabb, a farmer who had previously experienced this disease in his banana crops. He spoke from the heart when he told me, “this disease cause me and my family pure heartache, the loss of income was devastating. In saying this through with good community spirit and the support from friends we were able to overcome it together.” I need to make a special mention to Cassandra Fern this week i-puzzle’s leading environmental scientist who passionately worked endless hours along with our team to ensure who recommendations were well research and thought out. It has been an amazing team effort, congratulations i-puzzle!
 * Week 5 **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Louise Carter