Our team mascot

As all excellent teams, we also have a mascot. It is a gorilla, which we infamously named Late. He’s a celebrity himself. Late helps us with our assignments, and provides us safety and support. He always roots for us, and keeps our meetings on track.

Late not happy with us discovering his hidden banana

Late's hidden banana

At the same time however, apes are the most innovative animals on the planet and come up with many creative ways to entertain each other and find shelter and nutrition for themselves. Our team including late, is dedicated to eating everything edible in sight.

Our team's boost = tea

Then, a little bit about our team habits. We like to drink a lot of tea while we muse upon great ideas. We calculated to have drank already 500 cups of tea whilst working on this project. Our main interaction happens through face-to-face communication, and hence we have created a secret greeting between the team members. Other outlets of communication include skype and watsapp. The usage of watsapp has been detrimental for the functioning of our ideas, and watsapp has been “ringing off the hook”.

Late's sleeping tree

In the Business Kitchen, the Demola space in Oulu, we have conquered an office room for ourselves. The truth of the matter is no one else has been in the room so far, hence the conquering…

Besides all happy games, we have had some major philosophical conflicts within our team. The conflict has evolved around one subject mainly, whether life beyond this project should affect our teamwork. Antti strongly believes that our lives beyond the accelerator programme should not affect our teamwork. He believes school comes second, whilst Jasmin believes that it’s the other way round. Janne falls in between, what ever that may be? We do think this needs urgently to be solved, and we think a sword tournament is the way to go. Pictures to be posted by Janne, if he survives.

  

Late displaying some SWAG 

Late watching over our ideas

We also have created a couple of “inside” jokes. The inside jokes mainly deal with Jasmin being the only woman in our team. Within the team we have accused her of sorcery, as she continues to fatten us up by buying or baking sweets.

Sometimes it gets pretty exhausting..