Team 5 is ready to rock and roll!

This week, we had our first team meeting, where we decided on our team name and logo and discussed our team roles. Though our team name and logo are still in the works, our preliminary design features a Gator representing our university as well one of Freedom Scientific’s braille keyboards. We received lots of helpful feedback from our classmates on adjustments we could make to our logo and are looking forward incorporating it into our final design!

We also had the opportunity to connect with our primary liaison engineers this week — Sriram Ramanathan, an engineering director for Vispero, and Jake Richard, a UF IPPD alum. During this meeting, we discussed the background for our project, advice from previous IPPD project, expectations for us, and next steps that we should take to move the project forward.

In the coming days we plan to continue to do research into all the tools we’ll be using and set up our project management. We anticipate that this project will be challenging, but we feel more than ready to take it on!