Team
Joshua Keene, Marshall Hayduk, Michael Dattolo, Keely Doyle and Mathew Hartung are listed as authors in the JWU research record.
ACADEMIC TEAM PROJECT · PHYSICAL PROTOTYPING
BloominBeds
A Johnson & Wales team project exploring an eco-friendly garden-bed monitoring system using sensors and a control mechanism to address overheating and plant-growing conditions.
Stage
Academic prototype project with physical and digital artifacts.
Recognition
The five-person team received JWU’s 2024 Creativity & Design recognition.
THE PROBLEM
Covered garden beds can overheat in intense sunlight.
The project explored sensors, controls and physical design approaches intended to help monitor and manage growing conditions while remaining practical for a campus garden setting.
MY CONTRIBUTION
Team-based design and prototyping.
I contributed as one of five student authors. Older portfolio copy assigned me ownership of specific programming, simulation and control-system work that I could not independently verify during this audit, so those individual ownership claims have been removed pending project documentation.
EVIDENCE
Scale prototype
A physical artifact used during project development.
Full-size build
Physical garden-bed project artifact from the team’s development work.
Monitoring interface
Digital interface artifact associated with the monitoring-system concept.
OUTCOME / LIMITATIONS
A recognized team prototype with a clear practical problem.
JWU’s research record supports the sensor-and-control concept and team authorship. Claims about exact crop-cycle performance, healthy-range measurements, or Mike’s sole ownership of the software/control work remain unverified and are not presented as facts here.