Team Grape Expectations has completed their Prototype Inspection Day!

This week, our team was able to present the work we’ve completed on our prototype to a panel of judges consisting of faculty and staff associated with the IPPD program. We were super excited to show off all our hard work and receive feedback so we can continue improving our model!

At PID, we presented a brief background of the project, explained its importance, and presented the sources for the data that were used in our prototype. Then, we demonstrated the two software models we have thus far: our fire prediction model and our drought prediction model. In talking to our judges, we were able to identify weak points of the project and use their feedback to make improvements.

In the next few weeks, we will be preparing for our System Level Design Review (SLDR) presentation, which is our major end-of-year review of what we have done over this entire semester. With the improvements we now know to make to our prototype, we will have plenty of work before SLDR, but we’re excited to see how far we can bring this concept by the end of the semester.