Adnas Lab crowdfunding for our very first project

Hello everyone,

it took me a while to post these last weeks, but Im going through my last month of practical work in the lab and the load is ever so big. I promise a lot of action these coming weeks, but today I have a treat for all of those who like science and entertainment mixed together. Remember when back in March I told you about my start-up? If you dont, freshen up your memory accessing here. For those who want to have a summary of what our first product is about please keep reading.

In August 2014, me and my wife created SciBoard Games, a Nottingham family-run business operating in the Serious Games Industry. We want to create and develop science games/applications for educational purposes, but maintaining a strong entertainment factor. As a family company we wish to promote a group-sharing ethos as we simultaneously offer and invest in collective education, communion and togetherness. Our mission is to encourage a growing understanding of science by the general public supported by entertaining pedagogical tools. 

Thus, we developed our very first board game named "Adnas Lab". The main goal in our board game is to build up a 25 bases chain from 5 to 3 to win the race. Players enhance their own DNA chain, but can also destroy the opponents DNA chain making use of different single cards or combinations of cards. 

This game counteracts the traditional tendency of board games to use luck as a propelling agent. With Adnas Lab the gained knowledge as one plays is the pacing agent. 

We wish to produce four prototypes to show schools and students the potentialities of this game. The response from those who tested the game was very positive and we want to keep improving its capacity and qualities. In that sense we need your help so we can move forward with this project. We promise your name wont be forgotten when we make this dream a reality and we will tell the world in our facebook page that YOU CARED!

To help us access here!!!

Any partnership that can help us make this dream come true is more than welcome. Just email us on sciboardgames@gmail.com or visit our Facebook page or Twitter page.

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They were great at birth, sitting up, walking around not long after. Following mum.

Day 2, not looking as great, wondering if we should catch them and take them off mum. But they are still running after her so would have been hard to catch. We make the decision to wait till the next day and see what is happening.

Day 3, I got to check on the and find the poor mum standing by her dead lambs. Poor little things, poor mummy sheep. It was just heart breaking and I felt terrible for not taking them. But if they didnt need it I dont want to go snatching of the mum.

I am thinking maybe there is something amiss with the genetics of our flock. So we are buying some new ewes and hoping things start working out better for us. Will update with pictures when we get them on the weekend.

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This little girl is still a little wet as she is less than 2 hours old in this picture

Big sister having a look

Mum having a good look, must be an interesting little one!

Sure is dry out here

drinking some milk

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The First Week

 "Freedom is not something that anybody can be given.  

Freedom is something people take, 

and people are as free as they want to be.  

-James Baldwin

Well, we made it through the first week of milking.  Those initial three days were pretty treacherous.  Ginger was so engorged in the beginning that her udder was stretched tight.  It was extremely difficult to milk her but we knew that we had to relieve her to prevent mastitis.  Sweet, sweet Ginger must have been in so much pain she was constantly kicking us if we even thought of touching her teats.  Many a tear was shed that weekend but after milking several times a day for those first three days, we prevailed.  We now have a good rhythm!  Bringing Cocoa up into the milking parlor with Ginger has made all the difference.  We tie him next to his mom and he usually just lies down to take a little nap.  Cocoa is a hungry guy and has no problems finding the delicious milk.  He is growing so fast!  I think he has doubled in size in a week.  While he is gaining weight Ginger is thinning out, losing some of her pregnancy reserves.  The big question is what to do with the abundance of milk?  We have been experimenting with lots of cheese making, including our first Soul Flower Farm cheddar, as well as making whip cream, super yellow butter, and today some honey ice cream.  The cream at the top of the milk is amazing, I have never tasted anything like it.  Life is so full of adventure.  Sometimes I get perspective and think we must be absolutely bonkers to be doing all this.  But then I am swept back up in the wild ride which is so often full of joy, ecstasy, and that feeling that keeps us persevering...freedom.  

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