Triton UAS is a project team from the sunny campus of the University of California, San Diego. We are a student-run team that designs, builds, tests, and flies our own UAV to compete each year in the Student UAS Competition hosted by the AUVSI Seafarer Chapter against teams from around the world. Despite the fact that the 2017 competition coincided with finals week, our team placed 9th overall out of 42 teams.