Hello Everyone! After taking in all the insightful feedback from our presentation last week, Solaris made sure to fine-tune our final SLDR presentation. We made sure it was clear, straight to the point, and added a touch of professionalism by keeping it within the time limit and dressing professional.

Considering the feedback from our peers, Solaris feels that their final SLDR presentation to peers, IPPD coaches, and IPPD sponsors went smoothly—perhaps the best one Solaris has delivered all semester.

Both the frontend and backend teams have been working hard on their tasks. Solaris is ready and looking forward to taking on new challenging goals for next semester.

Hello everybody! This week, Solaris made our System Level Design Review (SLDR) presentation and report. The SLDR presentation was shown to an audience of our peers, IPPD coaches, and IPPD staff on Tuesday and we received some very helpful feedback from this audience! In the coming days, this feedback will go towards polishing our SLDR presentation so that we can present an exemplary model of our work to various industry guests next Tuesday. This SLDR presentation is meant to showcase proof that our designs and work on our project this semester will lead to a product that meets the product’s design specifications.

Our SLDR report will also undergo editing so that we can submit a final, refined version to our sponsor next week. This report includes specific details about our plans for spring and the literature we have reviewed, among a variety of other information.

Both the frontend and backend teams of Solaris have continued making progress on their respective tasks this week, despite our focus on the upcoming SLDR event, and will continue to do so going forward.

See you next week!

Hello everybody, Solaris has been hard at work this week achieving record progress on all sections of each Trello Cards as well as having a great Prototype Day! 

Sarah and Rutvi are now cleaning up minor bugs and stretch goals for their tasks which will soon be part of production. Fernando is hard at work to implement a new text editor that will improve Parchment’s overall user experience. The front-end team as a whole has become more efficient at splitting tasks and communicating to efficiently help each other with obstacles and complete our goals.  

The backend team is close to completing all sub tasks found within their Trello Card and have made progress that will soon help Parchment become faster and more efficient!  Solaris as a whole has a better approach to meeting Capture Sun team members, which has allowed all of us to get unblocked and progress much faster.  

Finally, Solaris had a great prototype day which allowed us to receive valuable feedback from experts about better ways to approach our project and interesting suggestions about the features we are currently working on. The event was composed of 20-minute presentation rounds to groups of judges that would evaluate us as well as ask questions and provide feedback. 

Featured below are pictures of Solaris at Prototype Day with the poster we created!

Hi all! 
 
This week Solaris made great progress on their tasks. The backend-team is closer than ever to completing the restructuring of the backend of Parchment, and the completion of this task is growing in importance as its completion will allow other teams in Parchment to significantly their own tasks. Furthermore, the front-end team, tasked with 2 Trello cards, are very close to finishing one of them, which revolves around how elements are rendered to users on the client-side of Parchment, which will significantly improve the user experience in Parchment. 

Furthermore, outside of direct work on Parchment, Solaris has been diligently working on ideas for how to present the prototype for next week. After some brainstorming, Solaris has come up with an interactive way for the audience of the prototype to get some hands-on experience with the work done so far. The idea won’t be spoiled, so you’ll have to attend to see it! 
 
Outside of extracurriculars and academic projects/exams blockers, Solaris has been able to make some incremental improvements over its previous work, so we’re excited to continue this momentum.

Below is a photo of Solaris during class this week!

Hey everyone! This week, Solaris presented their Preliminary Design Review (PDR), to great success and satisfaction from our sponsor. With the PDR now behind us, we have been heads down, hard at work on our tasks. The front-end and back-end teams have both met with our sponsor liaison to discuss how best to attack the tasks at hand. The back-end team made great strides this week, getting over the major roadblock of their task, they still have work to do, but the hardest part is behind them now. They are definitely looking to even the score between with the front-end team. 

The front-end team is diving more into their tasks, getting better understandings of their tasks to move forward. 

We all hope to be able to focus more on this project, more than before, since we’re all on the other side of midterms and many big projects have finished or are going to finish this upcoming week. We’re all excited for the app’s continued development and look forward to presenting at the Prototype presentation later this month. 

Overall Score: 

Frontend 1-0 Backend 

See you all next week!