Class Project

Timeline, team, tools, sources, and external links.

Big Questions From the Project

  • How can we control temperature, light, and moisture inside a greenhouse?
  • How can we actually build it?

Research topics included: what a smart greenhouse is; how it can help Cyprus; solving build problems; and how to present the project.

Project Timeline

  1. Introduction to the project (ICT lesson)
  2. Mr Marios explaining the project
  3. Roles and deciding teams
  4. Research: smart greenhouse; design team modelling a prototype
  5. Solving problems we might face while building
  6. Brainstorming how to present the smart greenhouse
  7. Creating a Google document from research
  8. Building the smart greenhouse
  9. Creating the presentation in Canva
  10. Presenting the project

Evidence of work

  • Google Doc — sensors for the smart greenhouse
  • Google Doc — what a smart greenhouse is and how it can help Cyprus
  • Smart greenhouse modelled / designed in Tinkercad
  • Website connected to sensors (temperature, soil moisture, etc.)
  • YouTube — Tech For Change channel: filmed, edited, uploaded videos

What Did We Do?

Khaled Alhwari

Presentation/visuals; Canva, Google Docs, research on greenhouses and smart greenhouses; also helped program the micro:bit with sensors for the smart greenhouse electronics.

Stefan Rybin

Programming team; organised voting so classmates were happy with roles; content on water temperature, water quality, and sensors with Ethan and Mikhail.

Mikhail (Misha) Mokhin

Presentation/visuals and design; sensor explanations (moisture, humidity, temperature, light, pressure, UV, buzzer, sound); Important findings.

Volodymyr (Vova) Gorelikov

Programming team; fixed timeline, locked frames; humour on oxygen/carbon dioxide; research for Mr Sergios' task; Reddit research (see tools).

Nikita Mokhin

Presentation/visuals, construction, and design; definitions, layout, bug fixes on Canva; timeline; Tinkercad concept design for the greenhouse.

Ethan Joe Heimann

Website maker and programming team — built a website connected to sensors; programmed the Arduino UNO and micro:bit for the smart greenhouse electronics.
Smart Greenhouse Automation System: integrated sensing, automated control, and renewable energy with Arduino UNO managing temperature, light intensity, and physical access.

What did I do?

Research & media — YouTube channel with videos for Tech For Change and a Google Doc for research.
Presentation — Helped decorate and create the presentation.
Video — Filmed, edited, and uploaded videos to the Tech For Change YouTube channel.
Also wrote about Arduino overview, plant life cycle, pollination, and how plant growth informs greenhouse design.

Leo

Programming and design teams; evidence of work includes Google Docs on sensors for the smart greenhouse.

Liza

Programming and construction teams.

Tools & Materials We Used

  • Canva — presentation
  • Tinkercad — 3D designs
  • Google Docs — research tasks
  • Scratch
  • ChatGPT & Gemini — AI assistance
  • Cursor — AI coding / putting code into files
  • Arduino UNO / micro:bit — control and sensing

The presentation recommends r/greenhouses as a research source the team used.

Explore More

🤖 Robotics System 💻 More about the project 📊 Presentation 🍬 How is candy involved?

Sources & Evidence

  • PLOS ONE (2024): light intensity and photosynthesis performance for crop growth
  • NCBI / PMC (2026): IoT smart irrigation reducing water waste by up to 47%
  • IEEE / ResearchGate (2026): modern greenhouse control and temperature regulation standards
  • Fortune Business Insights (2026): smart greenhouse market growth trends
  • Gothic Arch Greenhouses (2026): efficiency gains and labor reduction in controlled systems
  • Roots Analysis (2026): greenhouse retrofitting and monitoring/alarm trends
  • Wageningen University (2026): "Digital Twin" and autonomous greenhouse research

Teams & Roles

Team list from the class presentation. Several people appear on more than one team — see What we did for individual contributions.

Programming team

  • Leo
  • Vova
  • Liza
  • Stefan
  • Ethan

Presentation / visuals team

  • Khaled
  • Misha
  • Nikita

Art team

  • Emma
  • Georgia

Construction team

  • Panayiotis
  • Liza
  • Nikita

Design team

  • Leo
  • Misha
  • Nikita

Website maker

  • Ethan