Finalizing Prototype – Week #8

This week the team worked to mostly finalize the prototype in preparation for next week’s break. In class, the team listened to a leadership presentation about leadership competencies.

For project progress this week, there were strides made on all fronts. First, the CS/BE team was able to get the API data scraper fully functional and Dockerized in order to be transitioned to Terraview’s team for integration. Additionally, the drought model was updated for improved accuracy in order to meet the TPM standards. All parts of the fire model have been fully Dockerized and are also ready for integration into Terraview’s microservice systems. All the relevant code has been pushed onto GitLab so that Terraview engineers can access it. Finally, rules for the pest model based on found databases and information were written in order to be used in a simpler model that Terraview already has. Overall, all parts of the project are on track and ready to be used by Terraview.

In class, we listened to a presentation from Dr. Denise R. Simmons about examining our own leadership competencies. We were able to identify which leadership competencies we were strongest in (and the ones we were weakest in), and how to use those to our advantage. We were also taught how to improve our weaker skills, as leadership is a set of definable, improvable skills that anyone can practice. This is important both in a classroom team setting, such as this one, but it will also be important as we continue into our engineering careers.

A slide from Dr. Simmons’ presentation highlighting the types and groups of leadership competencies.

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