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--- public:admin:what_is_an_embryo_make_project [2025-11-11 20:18] – Julien Delisle
+++ public:admin:what_is_an_embryo_make_project [2025-11-11 20:24] (current) – [3. Communication guidelines] Julien Delisle
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-===== 2. Main objectives  expected from the MAKE operational committee =====
+===== 2. Main objectives  expected from the MAKE committee =====
-The main objectives during the academic year as an //embro project// and expected from the MAKE committee are the following:
+The main objectives during the academic year as an //embryo project// and expected from the MAKE committee are the following:
   - Defining the requirements of the project, this step is crucial and tends to be the most challenging for EPFL students. It requires to
       - Ask the right questions (user needs, societal needs, any other relevant analysis of the needs or added value of your idea)
-      - Work hard to collect a maximum of information
+      - Work hard to collect a maximum of information (most of it will be useless, some of it very useful)
-      - Define the requirements with details and including a systemic mindset (avoid thinking in silos)
+      - Define the requirements with details including a systemic mindset (avoid thinking in silos)
   - Ideally making a first** rapid prototype** (only if the requirements are clearly defined first) in order to identify key challenges early on. Rapid prototyping helps working on a first design, familiarize the students with prototyping and identify risks and challenges related to it. The idea is not to use expensive materials but to test if the idea is realistic.
   - Having a first contact with all the relevant stakeholders for your projects (collecting information and initiating discussions with them), example of stakeholders to discuss with can include:
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 In order to meet these three objectives, students mainly need to:
-  - Focus all their energy creating the substance that will prove their idea has the potential to become a MAKE project (technical reports with scientific validity and robustness, detailed requirements, collecting information through discussion with many stakeholders)
+  * Focus all their energy creating the substance that will prove their idea has the potential to become a MAKE project (technical reports with scientific validity and robustness, detailed requirements, collecting information through discussion with many stakeholders)
 However this is not useful and even counterproductive to:
-  - Creating an associative structure
+  * Creating a team structure similar to a company (CEO, CFO etc...) or creating an associative structure
-  - Seeking partnerships/sponsorships with external companies/stakeholders
+  * Seeking partnerships/sponsorships with external companies/stakeholders
-  - Seeking to increase the visiblity of the project
+  * Seeking to increase the visiblity of the project
-All of the above is forbidden because it is not necessary when the project has no clear requirements and substance yet. Warning: If the coaches following an embryo project reports that the project is seeking visibility and is not working towards the objetives mentionned above, the MAKE team reserves itself the right to remove the embryo statutes to a project
+All of the above is forbidden because it is not necessary when the project has no clear requirements and substance yet. Warning: <WRAP center round important 60%>
+If the coaches following an embryo project reports that the project is seeking visibility and is not working towards the objetives mentionned above, the MAKE team reserves itself the right to remove the embryo recognition to a project
+</WRAP>
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 Here are a few guidelines to follow for students managing an embryo project:
   - An embryo project is **not an EPFL project** yet, but trying to become one (the //trying// is important to mention to avoid misunderstandings).
-  - You can recruit other students and organize** meetings** in the SPOT makerspace [[https://make.epfl.ch/spaces?access=free|meeting rooms]], see also the [[https://make-reservations.epfl.ch|reservation tool]]. However, larger events involving many students must be avoided, because recruiting large number of students is absolutely not the priority of an embryo projects. The idea is to recruit a small and efficient team of futur managers of the project (4-5 members). Moreover, big teams are diffcult to manage and it will simply increase the complexity in terms of human resources management.
+  - You can recruit other students and organize** meetings** in the SPOT makerspace [[https://make.epfl.ch/spaces?access=free|meeting rooms]], see also the [[https://make-reservations.epfl.ch|reservation tool]]. However, larger events involving many students must be avoided, because recruiting large number of students is absolutely not the priority of an embryo project. The idea is to recruit a small and efficient team of futur managers of the project (4-5 members). Moreover, big teams are diffcult to manage and it will simply increase the complexity in terms of human resources management.
   - You can present the idea of the project to EPFL labs and other internal partners (EPFL centers etc). However, presenting the project to industrial partners / external entities is possible under the form of discussion (collecting information) but engaging in official partnerships with written/signed contracts **is absolutely forbidden**.
   - You can identify the important roles of a futur associative structure (president, VP, treasurer etc..). However, it is not authorized to constitute an association during the embryo phase yet, again because not necessary to test an idea.