Writing end report

Hi!

Project has come to the point were we need to take a look what has been done and to write a report about it. Also we are going to have ending gala and present our project to the public.

End report writing is going on nicely and it will be very inclusive about the project. It will cover all the planing, innovating and designing that has been done during the project. There will be also result of our surveys and overview of the project group.

You will hear some more about us when the writing has been finished.

Marko

Media relations - Medialle

We have published press page for the media due to increasing publicity of our project:

Projektimme saaman julkisuuden johdosta olemme julkaisseet projektille mediasivun:

http://sites.google.com/site/coin2020/

More info / Lisätiedot: coin2020 (#) gmail.com

-Simo

Coin of 2020 wakes Finnish media?

The seminar has really got our phones ringing and you might be able to spot our prototype in the Bank of Finland Museum on this Sunday. What's best of this is that you can visit the museum for free! The museum can be found in Helsinki at Snellmaninkatu 2 and it opens at 11.00 o'clock and stays so until 16.00. Together with our prototype you can also spot Pedro, who is there answering all your questions, free of charge of course ;)

More information about the museum can be found at http://www.rahamuseo.fi/

So be there or be square!

-Jani

The Show

So today it was time for the biggest goal in our project - the seminar to celebrate the 150 years old Mint of Finland. The seminar, which was held in Säätytalo, offered us a great chance to meet some people in leading positions in Finlands' money and finance industry. We even got a chance to chat with our Minister of Finance, Jyrki Katainen.

After the Mint of Finlands' CEO Maarit-Aarni Sirviö, the Minister of Finance Jyrki Katainen, the Governor of Bank of Finland Erkki Liikanen and Giesecke&Devrients Head of Product Portfolio Manager Holger Ziegler, our project group had "the 15 minutes of fame". Me and Mirva presented what our group had accomplished during the last 2,5 months.

In the end of the day I can say that the seminar was a great success. It was very rewarding to notice that so many people were really interested in our work. Besides the huge amount of positive feedback we also received a lot of valuable and constructive information concerning our coin project.

-Heikki

Hey!

Finaly our prototype is here. Here is a picture of it:



So we got this 3:1 prototype last week as well as the 1:1 prototype. It is casted from aluminium. After having it we first took it to Mint for grinding and polishing. Then we got it back and started assebling LED-lights and inner plastic cirle. Also we had to repare a vitrine for seminar that was held today at Säätytalo. Fortunately we got almost everything done within one day.

You can read more how it went at the seminar from the next writing.

-Marko