Team MATR has had an exciting week of building and testing. Preliminary testing of ARGOS satellite communication was conducted and turned out to be a success! The team was able to get location and message data sent from their hardware, through an ARGOS satellite, which sent that data to an ARGOS data center, where it was able to be retrieved and displayed by team MATR’s GUI software. This successful test will allow us to move forward in the testing process to get a full measure of satellite communication capabilities. Also the mechanical team has sent out the design files for the enclosure mold to be 3D printed, and we hope to get it back early next week to begin testing our enclosure design and manufacturing process. On Tuesday, January 25, we will present our first Qualitative Review Board (QRB1) and receive feedback from UF faculty on our progress and current plan. Along with that we will continue testing satellite communication, and begin integrating ARGOS hardware and our sensors with the MSP430 microcontroller.