This one was a big week for Team MATR. On Tuesday, they visited the Cade Museum of Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, FL, to showcase the IPPD program to local business investors. Team MATR, along with 3 other UF IPPD teams – Simplicitea, Multivision, and Gearware – were able to show the investors one of the many reasons why Gainesville is a cluster of innovation, and that industries could thrive in the area thanks to the bright young people coming out of the University of Florida. It was a great experience for the team to get more exposure to how real-world engineering opportunities evolve, and to give back to the UF IPPD program by showing their work to potentially bring in new sponsor companies for the coming years. Beyond that event, this week the team finished a draft of their Final Design Review (FDR) report. There is still a lot of work to do on the report, following the full completion of the prototype. The Electrical and Computer Engineers have been working hard to finish up the final prototype for FDR. A lot of work is going in to the embedded software and PCB to make sure everything is bug free for the final potting of the electronics in the epoxy enclosure. The Mechanical Engineering sub-team has completed the final epoxy shell for the device, including upper hull, baseplate, and 3D printed electronics case, to be ready for potting when the software and hardware are ready.