Club News

Inquisitive Inventors Reaches 300 Members!

Inquisitive Inventors just passed the 300 member threshold on 8/24/2024! To celebrate, we will be hosting a STEM mixer soon! Invites and details will be sent to your emails soon!

Gage Jones takes over as Interim President

1/7/2024 - While Drew studies abroad for the spring semester, Gage Jones will lead Inquisitive Inventors.

Inquisitive Inventors Reaches 200 Members!

Inquisitive Inventors just passed the 200 member threshold on 3/3/2023. Thank you all for your continued support and interest!

Inquisitive Inventors Reaches 100 Members

Inquisitive Inventors just passed the 100 member threshold on 8/23/2022. We plan to be at the fall get connected fair on the 31st with a full computer/drone demonstration.

Inquisitive Inventors Wins Distinguished Quill Award

Inquisitive Inventors won the award of New Student Organization of the Year.

https://si.gmu.edu/distinguished-quill-award/

Inquisitive Inventors Folding@Home team attains 100,000,000 points

https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/1063181

Insane Inventors just passed the 100 million point threshold on 5/6/2022.

https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/points/?lng=en

Inquisitive Inventors Nominated for Distinguished Quill Award

Inquisitive Inventors was nominated for the award of New Student Organization of the Year.

https://si.gmu.edu/distinguished-quill-award/

GPU Install Demonstration

Using a PCI-E riser cable and an additional power supply, Drew Di Donna demonstrated the performance of a graphics card on a student's small form factor desktop.

Specifications of tested computer:

CPU I7-6700
GPU EVGA GTX 1060 6GB
RAM 16GB of Dell Unknown
Mobo Unknown Proprietary Dell Mobo
PSU Proprietary Dell 250 Watt / Corsair TX850 Watt
Storage 500 GB Samsung 850 EVO

Testing Motherboards Demo

Drew Di Donna conducted a PC building demonstration by testing donated AMD motherboards. The picture to the right is a candid shot of when the supposedly broken B450 motherboard suddenly posted. The background of the photo contains an RTX 3070TI, a Ryzen 5 5600X, a ROG B350-F Motherboard, and an old ASUS P5G41T-M LX Plus Motherboard.

Specifications of the B450 Build:

CPU Ryzen 5 1600X
GPU EVGA GTX 1060 6GB
RAM Crucial Ballistix 16GB (2x8) @ 3200 DDR4
Mobo ASUS Prime B450M-A
PSU Corsair TX850 Watt
Storage 256GB Inland Digital SSD

Folding@Home Team Created

Our computers continue to help researchers understand COVID-19, Alzheimer's, Cancer, Huntington's, and Parkinson's.

https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/1063181

B.E.S.S.I.E used as a Hands-on Test Bench

Specifications:

CPU i5-2500
GPU XFX GF 7600 GT
RAM G.SKILL Ares 16GB (4 x 4) @ 1600Mhz DDR3
Mobo Dell XPS 8300 VOSTRO 460
PSU Dell 250 Watt
Storage 120 GB SATA SSD + 600 GB HDD

New Computer Built: R.E.D.

Specifications:

CPU i5-7500
GPU MSI R7-370 3GB
RAM Crucial Ballistix 16GB (2x8) @ 3200 DDR4
Mobo Asus Prime B360M-A
PSU EVGA 500 Watt
Storage 240GB SATA SSD + 2 TB HDD

Budget Request Approved

Inquisitive Inventors will be hosting an online tutorial on building computers. We will cover a variety of topics:  PC part fundamentals, proper budgeting, common mistakes, and troubleshooting.

Computers Running Protein Folding Simulations

Using Folding@Home, our computers dedicate their processing power to helping scientists cure and understand COVID-19, Alzheimer's, Cancer, Huntington's, and Parkinson's.

B.E.S.S.I.E. and N.E.D. both operational

Currently attempting to get a GTX 780TI to replace B.E.S.S.I.E.'s GF 7600 GT.