This week, our team was primarily focused on finalizing our PowerPoint and practicing our presentation leading up to Prototype Inspection Day (PID) on Tuesday. When prepping for our last major presentation, QRB2, we realized that an incredibly time-effective way to prepare is recording a run-through of our presentation and sending it with our coach, Dr. Zhang, to review and give us feedback, so we replicated that process for PID, and saw great results! We received a solid mix of positive feedback and constructive criticism, most of the latter specifically related to our presentation of our Machine Learning Model Architecture, which we plan to improve for the future.

On a related note, we are excited to share that this Wednesday, it was announced that Team INSIGHT has been given the honor of placing in the top-3 PID presentations by Likert score, and has been invited to present our work next week, as members of the IPPD delegation, at the Cade Museum during the Gainesville Chamber of Commerce’s (GCC) Community Interest Meeting. Professor Latorre has emphasized the importance of this event, saying that GCC invited IPPD to present to promote potential benefits of investing in Alachua County, so we have already started preparing for this great opportunity.

While we were primarily focused on coursework and presentations this week, we also made some progress on the Feature Engineering (FE) and Machine Learning (ML) portions of our project. The FE team completed further testing and began the final phase of feature testing, while the ML team investigated some suspicious activity that was identified when comparing the performance of some of our models with the models of last year’s team.

Going into the coming week, we are excited to present at the Cade Museum and finish all coding portions of the project, so we can shift our focus to finalizing our report and working on project documentation.
Goodbye – more updates to come!