In the midst of a pandemic and online classes, Team Power Patrol, formerly known as Team 3, has been working hard at making our project with FPL a reality. In our first two weeks, we spent a lot of time getting to know each other and learning each other’s strengths so we have a solid sense of how everyone can contribute to the project. From these initial meetings, we shed a lot of the awkwardness of typical video calls as we found out we actually have a lot in common! Some of us have even met before from classes or design teams.

We also got to speak with the project liaisons at FPL who gave us a lot of the necessary information we needed to start thinking about potential features.

We’ve been mostly doing preliminary planning, such as determining our stakeholders and figuring out what features would be the most important to them. Next week, we will be beginning the brainstorming process and doing a lot of research to determine some of the key functionalities of the system. Based on this research, we’ll run this through our faculty mentor, Dr. Turner, and the team at FPL to get their feedback. We’re super excited to work on such a unique project and we can’t wait to show it to the world!