Fall Semester

SLDR! – Week #16

Team Grape Expectations completed their System Level Design Review this Tuesday! An entire semester’s work culminated in SLDR, which was the final IPPD event of the year. At this event, our team was able to present our work to an… Read More

SLDR Peer Review – Week #15

This week, Team Grape Expectations continued preparing for our System Level Design Review (SLDR) event by creating content and practicing presenting. After receiving and reviewing critiques from our judges at PID, we were ready to begin work on improving the… Read More

Prototype Inspection Day – Week #13

  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.… Read More

PID Progress – Week #12

This week Team Grape Expectations has been making great progress towards our prototype. We are working hard on our prediction models. Currently, there are two models in development: drought prediction, and fire prediction. As the names suggest, the models are… Read More

Prototype Planning – Week #11

Team Grape Expectations has focused its efforts onto prototype creation in anticipation of Prototype Inspection Day in two weeks. In class this week, we were able to have a long discussion about what we want our presentation to look like… Read More

Next Stop: Prototype – Week #10

This week turned our focus to our prototype, which we aim to have completed in the beginning-middle of November. With our new findings in data sources in previous weeks, we are on track to having a model that can predict… Read More

PDR Presentation! – Week #9

This week, Team Grape Expectations presented our PDR to Terraview! The PDR let us showcase all of the work we’ve done up to this point of the semester, and it was very rewarding to see everything culminate in this big… Read More

Peer Review – Week #8

This week, we presented our Preliminary Design Report draft to our peers and made great progress in our project. On Tuesday, we presented our full PDR draft presentation to our peers, including Team Gearware and Team Multivision. We were able… Read More

Prep for PDR – Week #7

This week we continued with the development of our project and began our preliminary design report. In class, we learned from an informative presentation about project elevator pitches, which will help us in our preliminary design report presentation. We were… Read More

First Month Recap – Week #6

As September draws to a close, team Grape Expectations wants to take this time to reflect on our first month in IPPD. We have accomplished a lot this month! From starting off not knowing which team we would join to… Read More

Research & Revisions – Week #5

Grape Expectations had a productive week! In class this week, we were able to discuss the combination of concepts we may want to include in our project. We will continue to weigh the pros and cons of each component of… Read More

Concept Generation – Week #4

This week, we presented our final team name and logo, continued meeting with our coaches and sponsors, and started gathering data sources for our model. During class, we presented our team name and logo, along with a short description of… Read More

Revised Logo – Week #3

This week, Grape Expectations was able to refine our understanding of the project, speak with liaisons and our coach, and begin preliminary research! Our team was incredibly excited to meet members of the Terraview team. Terraview employees are spread across… Read More

To New Beginnings – Week #2

Hello everyone! We are Team 9, better known as Grape Expectations. Our name comes from our project’s roots in the viticulture industry, and alludes to our data science and risk prediction and management functionalities. We are excited to begin working… Read More