Q1: Describe at least 5 partnerships with individuals and/or organizations that have been formed to support your project and that impact the success or failure of your venture.

Please identify partnerships at the individual, team, and Lehigh / GSIF level.

1.What constituted the partnership?

2.How did the partner help you? How did you help them?

3.Was this a symbiotic relationship? Why or why not?

4.What would help strengthen this partnership and make it more equitable?

University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) (HEED Program)

1. This partnership was born during the assignment or our project. We were given this connection initially.
2. UPD students and a professor have given us insights on conditions in the Philippines as well as contacts for the Philippine Coconut Authority.  
3. No, because of the pandemic we were not able to travel to the Philippines to collaborate with the UPD students. The UPD students were also sent home due to the pandemic where many of them did not have access to wifi so we shifted to communication with Jill Manapat only. However, due to poor connection it is hard to have productive zoom meetings
4. More communication efforts would help strengthen this relationship but given the circumstances of the Pandemic 

Prof. Jedlicka

1. Professor Jedlicka is the co-advisor to our project (for both TE Capstone team and GSIF).
2. She provides guidance and insight to our team based on her expertise. We give her more information about different aspects of the copra industry, which in turn allows her to provide us with more suggestions and direction.
3. This is a symbiotic relationship, as we are both reciprocating value. As we navigated through this complex coconut industry together as students and mentors, we taught and learned from each other: we taught her about the coconut knowledge that we found from literature, and she taught us how to better use that knowledge to advance our venture. 
4. An increase in the team’s efforts would strengthen this relationship since the more we put in allows for more input on Professor Jedlicka’s end. 

Prof. Haden

1. This partnership was built through GSIF and Professor Haden is a co-advisor to our project
2. She helped us organize our ideas and helped us with where we should start with our project. We have helped her by teaching her about copra and the marketing of it in the Philippines. Also we will eventually publish a paper which will reflect well on her. 
3. Yes, because Professor Haden acted as a guide for where we should start and we were able to teach her about our project. 
4. More communication would strengthen this partnership.

Wilber (Brian Slocum and Michael Moore)

1. Our partnership with the Wilbur Powerhouse is based on our need for help in designing and prototyping our dryer. We connected through our advisor and our own relations.
2. They have helped us through the design, but also mainly the physical construction of the prototype through their skill sets, expertise, and their access to Wilbur. 
3. This is less of a symbiotic relationship because they have given us more value than we have given them, through advising us through our designs and helping us build it.
4. A more proactive approach to our design methods and an increase in understanding of the building process from our team. 

Lynne Cassimeris

1. Cell Biology professor at Lehigh, whom one of our team members is taking a class with. 
2. This partner has helped in furthering the understanding of what goes on a cellular and molecular level inside of cells, which can be applied to copra.
3. This is less of a symbiotic relationship as she is providing her teaching on her profession and we are learning from it.
4. What would strengthen this relationship would be being in more communication with her and asking more directly about potential guidance on how to work on copra more effectively.

Gregory Lang

1. One of our team members worked at Dr. Lang’s Yeast lab
2. Dr. Lang answered an email about what to do about aflatoxins when our team member emailed him and he provided his knowledge as he is a microbiology professor and has experience working on bacteria and yeast.
3. This is less of a symbiotic relationship as we do not have anything valuable from our side of research to offer him in return for his teaching.
4. More communication and working alongside him would strengthen the relationship and bring more equity to our project as we would profit from the more knowledge we gain about how to counteract spoilage and molding.