Team News

On February 7th, airframe lead, Andrew Fletcher, and embedded lead, José Orozco, visited High Tech High Chula Vista to give a short presentation to Marcus Artates’ 9th grade physics class about Triton UAS and our three subteams. Triton UAS has previously worked with Marcus Artates and HTHCV when Andrew and our other airframe lead, Jessica Chan, served as panelists at the Presentations of Learning, with their experiences published in our other blog post. The students in Marcus’ class have been working on several different projects with one of the projects being an aerospace project similar to what Triton UAS works on. With this visit, we hoped to give the students a more detailed explanation about our student organization and answer any questions they had for us.

The Corporate Affiliates Program (CAP) held a board meeting on the evening of February 13th, where executives from partner companies as well as UCSD faculty members can receive updates on the Jacobs School of Engineering and progress of student organizations. Not only does this serve as an opportunity for student organizations to showcase their projects, but additionally students are able to network directly with members from industry.

As one of the student project teams in attendance, Triton UAS had on display our full plane, 2-axis camera gimbal, unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), software demo of our saliency program for detecting targets using a RCNN object detection algorithm and You Only Look Once (YOLO), informational brochures, and a brand-new poster printed by CAP. Our team was able to talk to C-level executives about our project, including representatives from Qimia, Bentley, Brain Corp., Solar Turbines, General Atomics, Lytx, as well as UCSD faculty members.

On February 8th, UCSD SWE held the Envision 2020 Conference to introduce high school girls to STEM related career paths. Triton UAS participated in the Project Fair of the conference, where high school girls got the opportunity to get familiar with the engineering, science, and technology student organizations of UCSD.

Triton UAS and other student organizations spent an hour tabling and introducing themselves to the students and answering any inquiries they had. The students asked questions about the plane construction process and how to join Triton UAS. Many also expressed their interest in joining our organization if they were to attend UCSD after graduating from high school.