Location, Location, Location

Greetings fellow bloggers!

'To all of you who are coming down to the pav this morning, I will spot on time - or perhaps ten minutes late'

- Tim Keely, Supervisor

The text above was a phone text message received on the morning my team and I were suppose to meet up at the Curtin Robofair location.

I hope all of you are well and ready to end the semester. I cannot believe that it is almost over. It seemed like it was yesterday when we were searching for placements, now the end is around the corner.

This is my third blog entry. My topic for this post is Location, Location, Location. As you know (or do not know), my team and I are organising the first ever Curtin Robofair event that will be on December 4th this year. It has been fun and challenging at the same time. I have learned a lot so far and I can't wait to see how our effort will turn up like on December 4th.

The Robofair event will take place in the new Engineering Pavilion building. For most of us commerce students, we rarely find time to walk to the other side of campus, so the building might not sound familiar to you, which is why I have decided to show you the Pavilion through this blog post!

Firstly, for an early read about the building, click on this link here to know more about the Minister for Jobs, Skills and Workplace Relations, Chris Evans' tour around the building.

http://news.curtin.edu.au/news/minister-spends-first-day-on-the-job-touring-curtin/

My supervisors, Tim and Kay took my team and I to the building (which has limited access because it is not yet completed). The purpose of this visit is to plan where the Robofair activities such as the iNexus competition, Robocup performance, career fair and education fair should take place. This is absolutely important because we have to maximise the location proximity as efficient as we can without making it to cram for our visitors.

This was an interesting day not only we got to tour around the building but because we got to see how beautiful the building was. I wasn't surprised because Curtin spent millions of dollars working on the place. Also, figuring out where things should take place for the event in the building was not as easy as I thought it would be. Space is not negotiable and it takes skills to figure out.

Here are some photos taken from our site tour

Also, Tim emailed me this building's blueprint in order to simplify the allocation process. I thought it was pretty cool because I have never worked on blueprints before. It's pretty interesting and we will finalise the allocation in mid of November.

I hope this post has been beneficial to all of you, in the sense of introducing the new Engineering Pavilion building and of course, the location of the Curtin Robofair 2010.

Have a great weekend and I will update my final blog post soon!

Yours truly,
Liyana K. Azman