Welcome to the Electric Eye blog post for the week of 10/17! This week we spent our time revising our concept and PDR for our presentation with FPL. Thanks to the help of our liaison, we’ve refined our design and have begun looking towards what is up next for our project. In our programs class time this week, we also had guest speakers Dr. Manuel Bermudez and Ian Baldwin deliver great lectures on the “Scrum Framework” and “Emotional Intelligence” respectively.

Final PDR Presentation

After getting some awesome feedback from our coach and the program director on our PDR report and presentation, we’ve been able to clean up our PDR to a point that fully reflects the work that has been put into the project to this point. With our upcoming presentation, we have spent some time practicing our parts together and feel very confident in what we have! Once our presentation is finished we can get to the fun part of building our device!

Guest Lectures

Our guest lecturers this week gave some useful information and insight into working within a team effectively. We had the choice of 3 lectures for the beginning of our presentation, and the team went to the “Scrum Framework” lecture with guest speaker Dr. Manuel Bermudez as we felt that it would be most beneficial to our team. While we were all familiar with the Scrum development process, Dr. Bermudez was able to answer questions that went a bit deeper then we had previously experienced. Our second guest lecturer, Ian Baldwin, discussed the importance of Emotional Intelligence in the workplace and how improving our own EQ will make us not only more hirable, but also increase our satisfaction in the workplace. We want to thank both of our guest speakers for their time!

Homecoming was this week, so our time together was shortened slightly, but its been a productive week nonetheless. Thanks for reading this week’s blog post from team Electric Eye!