It’s good to be back! After our delays with hurricane Ian, we all returned to campus on Monday to resume work with our team. Since many of us were working remote even through our evacuation, we dedicated Monday to compiling all our changes to the project and any recaps. After that, it was non-stop prep work- we kicked off Tuesday with a coach meeting to discuss our First Month Report, as well as our Requirements and Specifications to move forward with the Preliminary Design Report. Thursday was spent meeting with our Liaison engineers and assessing their feedback regarding our generated concepts. Additionally, this Friday was Homecoming week! We celebrated our new-found day off by dedicating the day to blocking out tasks in preparation for our Preliminary Design Report and PDR presentation.

Through all of the stress of the week, we have some new milestones:

• We have narrowed down our concept selection to two concepts. We will decide on the path forward before our PDR.
• Our development kit purchase has been approved and should be delivered by next week.
• Our PDR presentation date has been approved: October 18 @ NextEra Energy in Juno Beach!

At this point, we have to thank our liaison engineers at NextEra- not only have they been extremely helpful through the infancy of this project, they share the same enthusiasm that the team does. We are happy to work with them!