Weekly Team Update

This week we completed our first presentation and are now focusing on creating drawings to solidify our design ideas. We are also in the works of gathering costs so that it will be easier acquiring funding down the road. Finally, we are learning more about the progress the Wayside Power team is making in order to come up with a great exhibit for the Maker Faire coming up in May. Some mentor critique focused on how we like to skip ahead in the design phase without thinking about the small steps it takes to build up a design. We are addressing this by taking this project one step at a time, not rushing anything. We are also improving our gantt chart so that all the team members are aware of what phase in the project we are in.

Presentation #1 Link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15ov0z4fZ3PJH2Kt9n6kuQlbcacMyu-jgc9lEJPyahTM/edit?usp=sharing



9/24/18-9/28/18

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