Washington DC-Day 1

Today was a busy day at Capital Hill. John Otto, Mr. Gallagher, and myself spent the day in eight different meetings. The purpose of the trip was to lobby in front of Congressmen and Senators' staff to try and convince them to provide more funding for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematical. This STEM education is specifically supported by programs like Project Lead the Way who would be able to grow even more rapidly with government funding. We even got to meet with Louisiana Congressman Bill Cassidy while talking to his staff in his office. After a long day of talking with staff members, Project Lead the Way CEO took us out to dinner at Legal Seafood and bought each table an eight pound lobster!

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Final Touches

Yesterday, we began working on the final touches for Aegis that should take a week maximum. I worked on styling the different pages while Tom Corona worked on making the picture that students upload appear on the campus security's screen. Once we finish this, Aegis will be complete and we plan to present to some universities. We are trying to communicate with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The InvenTeam met with Professor Lester Rubenfield two years ago and this year's InvenTeam is trying to arrange a meeting/presentation with him as well. Our goal is to test this project on a college campus.

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Major Coding Finished!

A few days ago we completed all the major coding for our program. This means everything runs properly and is ready to have small additions of code added on for debugging and enhancements. Next, we have to set up our own servers, and finish writing instructions for Colleges to make their own accounts.

This was a big step for Team Aegis and were looking forward to field testing and fine tuning!

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Program Additions

We have decided to allow Colleges to run, debug, and launch our program independently and create their own Administration settings by themselves rather than us creating it for them. This will allow Colleges to view active victims and change our program to their liking rather than us having to view everybodys data. This will require a few extra pages in the program for Administration registration and a detailed instruction sheet on how to accomplish this.

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Today, Tom Corona continues to get Aegis ready for its final touches. He is currently going through the whole program and debugging it. He is looking for errors on each specific line instead of the whole program itself. This way, he can identify the specific problem and solve it. Also, the rest of the team finished up the letters that they are emailing and mailing to all the Project Lead the Way affiliate schools. These letters are planned to be mailed out in the next few weeks when the project is finished.

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