Just like that, this semester has come to an end. As you can see above, we have finally presented our System Level Design Review (SLDR). We want to thank everyone who came to our presentation from our coach, peers, liaisons, and even other employees from RTX that attended. We appreciate all the questions and feedback we received, it will definitely help us in the near future as we continue working on this project.

As for the event as a whole, it was a great experience. From being able to network with the other teams and company employees, to the great food that was offered, to the wonderful guest speaker that provided great insight on entrepreneurship. We all had a great time, and we want to wish you all a great break and happy holidays. See you all next year!

Welcome back everyone! We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving break! Here at CyberSign, we used the break to ensure our System Level Design Review (SLDR) presentation was as polished as possible as this week we had our peer review. Above you can see us all in good spirits as we all were confident that we did a great job, despite some technical difficulties during the presentation. We also received some great feedback that we have been reading through over the past few days that has been helpful in making our SLDR even better.

Next week, we will have our final SLDR presentation and our final class of the year. It is a bit bittersweet as we are excited for it, but we are also sad that it is over as this semester has flown by. We hope as many of you as possible will be able to attend the presentation next week. If not, make sure to tune in to the blog once again for the final post of the year. See you then!

Prototype Inspection Day was a huge success for Cybersign! We were able to present to many different judges of many different backgrounds which gave us really great feedback and suggestions on how we should move forward with our project. We were especially proud of ourselves when it came to our explanations of our project because we were worried it would be difficult to understand for someone on the outside looking in, since our project has many moving pieces and is very technical. However, we were told by multiple different judges that we did a great job of explaining thoroughly and they weren’t confused at any point.

Moving forward, we want to use all this valuable feedback to continue working on and improving our project and our plans for it in the future. Our peer review presentation of our SLDR is right after thanksgiving break, so we are currently working on that to be as prepared as possible in order to receive more useful feedback. Once again, we want to thank everyone that stopped by to check out our prototype and give us feedback. We hope everyone has a great thanksgiving break!

Last post, we uploaded a picture of us outside the RTX offices since we were not able to take any of our own photos while inside due to security reasons. However, RTX had a professional photographer onsite, and they were able to take pictures of us during our presentation, which is what you see above. Once again, we had an incredible experience at RTX, and we are very grateful for their hospitality. Other than the presentation, we also had a catered lunch and a tour of most of the facility which was so cool.

Following the PDR, we have focused all our efforts on prototyping. This has been in preparation for Prototype Inspection Day (PID), which is coming in the following week. We are very excited to be able to show off what we have been working on so far. We are also looking forward to receiving some very useful feedback from other engineering experts to ensure our model will be feasible and we are on the right track. We hope to see you guys there!

We did it! We were able to successfully present our final PDR to many employees on site at the Raytheon offices in Largo, FL. We saw Mark Sanders once again, who we were able to meet for the first time during his presentation in class a few weeks ago. We were also able to meet our other liaisons and many RTX employees for the first time. Above you can see us outside the offices, and it was all smiles as we knew we did a great job. However, we were unfortunately not able to take any personal pictures while inside due to security reasons.

The entire experience was one we will definitely never forget. We were able to gain a lot of experience and knowledge through all the conversations we had with the employees there and they gave us invaluable advice. The questions we received during the presentation were all very useful and it showed that they genuinely cared about the work we were doing. All of the feedback we received, whether it was specific to our project or just about our career in general, was information we will definitely not take for granted.