So we'll go ahead and get started. So my name is Ava part of Keegan. I'm the peer advisor for computer science engineering. Um, and I'm also majoring in computers. Um, and today we're joined by Matt, the Michigan autonomous aerial cool vehicles. So do you want to go ahead and introduce yourself and talk about your vehicles. I'm currently a junior in computer engineering at the school, and I have a focus on embedded systems. And I'm also big into sustainable engineering. Perfect. So, go ahead and get started with talking to them about what is math. So what type of majors people are in it. We kind of like, what's the goal of your project competition? So we do everything from designing the structure of the drone, all of the electronics that go on it and writing all of the autonomous code. So there's a lot of different majors I usually participate. We have a lot of computer science, computer engineering, mechanical aerospace and really anything. If you're interested in joining, we'll find a role for you. Okay, so going off that too, do you want to talk about what your current project that you guys are working on right now is going to be some future projects that you'll have competition. There's a bunch of different teams from many different universities around the world. And right now the competition is being held remotely. So we have to design the field ourselves and have like an authorized. I, our representative come and make sure that when you run the competition that we're following all the rules and stuff. So this competition is interesting because it's going to be fully outdoors. So our drone is very big this year. It's going to be about 4 feet wide from propeller to propeller and it's going to have to fly around 30 miles an hour. We have to cover, I think it's like 5 kilometers to or something like that. It's a long distance. So there's a lot of different complexities in this challenge in terms of like battery life and speed and like weight management. And besides that, there's a precision part of the challenge that involves at least the way we're handling it computer vision. So we have to track and moving target and be able to like doc the drone of it and kind of like land on it. So there's a lot of different things going on. Cool. Okay, that's awesome. Yeah, so how many different sub teams that we deal with electronics. We make custom printed circuit boards. With STM microcontrollers on them and write some embedded code. They interface with other electronics that we don't design ourselves. Like we have an onboard flight controller and like speed controllers and motors. All of the stuff we buy off the shelf. We have the structure sub team. They do all of the CAD and 3D printing and they order a lot of like carbon fiber and very expensive motors and electronics and they assemble the whole thing. And then our software sub team spends a lot of time writing code and doing simulations of the drone. They show me pretty cool simulation the other day. That shows like the docking and my vision tracking procedure where they're able to like find four points on like the moving target and show like the drone will be able to track it. So yeah, we have a lot of different stuff going on. And with those two, do you feel that you need to have skills before joining? Maybe what was your experience before joining? I didn't really know much. I just went through my introductory engineering classes and I know I like computers, but that was about it. Since I joined the team, I've learned a lot of different stuff and I learned stuff kind of faster than you get taught in some of the computer engineering classes actually. Like the summer after I joined, I spent a lot of time doing surface mouse soldering and I learned how to use Autodesk Eagle, which are skills that I'm just getting to now in my classes in my junior year. So we usually have a good amount of upper level or I guess older members, I should say that have had more experience. So if you join as a freshman with no knowledge, we'll be. Perfect. Okay, cool. What type of events are hosted outside of just like your sub teams? Do you have any social events that are hosted? Sometimes it's a little bit hard to meet people on the different sub teams if you only really meet in your weekly meetings with your own sub team. So recently, just a couple of weeks ago, we actually had a social event with another project team and VFT who makes vertical takeoff and landing drones. They actually share our workspace in the Wilson Center. So we're able to get together with them, have some pizza and tell you like Mario Kart and stuff like that. So that was a good time. Awesome. And then also I want to ask what the time commitment is like or what, how has it been for you being in East classes? We definitely encourage them to attend everything. I guess only the one specific for your sub team. So we usually have 1 meeting on Sundays in the afternoon that goes for like 3 or 4 hours. And then each sub team will have 1 more meeting throughout the week. That's usually around 2 or so hours. So attending those meetings is a great start. And then usually there's a bit of work to do outside of those meetings. So if you want to come into the Wilson Center or maybe if you're on the software team and you can just, you know, sit with your laptop at home. Usually probably around 6 or 7 hours is what we like to have for all of our members. Right now we're a bit of a smaller team. So we're hoping to expand a bit more. So maybe in the future, it'll be a little bit more of a light workload for every member. But right now it's just a bit more, especially as a leader for 1 of the sub teams. I have a bit more administrative duties to do that takes some time, but I definitely am able to manage it with all of my classes. And what type of professional opportunities would you say that members gain from being in Mav? You mentioned older students. You can get from all of the sponsorships and from all of the internships that different students get to go to. So for Mav, especially once you get to your junior or sophomore years, I see a lot of members getting really cool internships based off of the knowledge that we've learned on the project team. So pretty much everything on my resume revolves around Mav right now. And every time that I've been in an interview for an internship, I can just talk about all the cool stuff I've done with embedded systems. And that seems to be like the most engaging and interesting part for the person who's interviewing me. They like to talk about that a lot. And you mentioned to some leadership opportunities. So could you talk a little bit more about those opportunities for students who are in the work? As president, vice president, we have a treasurer and then each of our subteams has a lead. So usually there will be team leaders for around a year in a whole in an election after every year. So if you're interested in joining and you want to join as a freshman, you can kind of get to know the leader and start asking them about like their role and all the different stuff they have to do. It's not that much more work than any of the other members on the sub team. I just have to do some more administrative things and I have to kind of do all the leadership aspect in the organization. So if you are interested in a leadership role, it definitely gives you some good skills and some good talking points for interviews and stuff like that too. And then for people who are hearing this are really interested in joining. Is there a specific way that students have to join? Will you be at Festivall or workfest next year? You can also go to our website. Let me double check what the domain is because I don't want to say the wrong thing. But there's a little link on there you can follow and there's a Google form to fill out and then they'll send an email to us. So we'll be able to add you then. I think you can find us on these pages or what should be linked on there. So if you want to take a look at that, but next semester will be transitioning from this 1 competition to another competition. So definitely going to be looking for a lot of new members to recruit since there'll be a big increase in the workflow that we'll have to do. So definitely if you're interested in anything relating to aerospace or computer engineering or mechanical or whatever, then yeah, come try to join us and we'll find someone for you guys to do. And then to end my last question is just what has been your favorite thing for your favorite memory? My 1st circuit board and powering on and seeing all that would be turned on that was definitely the coolest part because I had no experience with any of that stuff beforehand and it was really just a cool moment to prove that I could do all those things. Well, so much for joining us and talking about math and your experience and what the thing I'll make sure to link the website in our caption after this, but.


Stevenson and Johns Hopkins finish in a 2-2 draw Glen Clark with head coach Graham Miller. Coach how do you measure a good result against a good opponent versus maybe the disappointment that you had the extra man and you weren't able to convert and get the win? Yeah I mean I think you know when you don't lose it's always a good thing so you know we're fortunate with soccer that you know there's not always a winner so you know we'll take it you know we're still learning we're still growing you know four years ago actually sorry five years ago when I took over this program we went to Hopkins and we're bash for nothing and never get our own half so that's what I want to see so regardless of the win or loss I want to see development for our players to get ready for conference play and you saw that today I mean the fact that we grinded with with Johns Hopkins regardless of their their 10 men because of that good that they still looks like they've got 11 on the field and the fact that we took them 110 minutes scored two goals against them two very good goals and worked hard defensively as a sign of our growth and I'm just really happy happy for the team that that we were able to get something out of this game reminder they were actually able to score a goal with 10 men against Mary Washington on Saturday so you know it could have been worse and that's what I said to them at halftime I said hey look they played for 50 minutes with 10 men scored and beat Mary Washington who was naturally ranked so so we knew going in that that wouldn't phase them and I'm just glad that we we played a really good 90 minutes against them I wasn't really pleased with the overtime I thought we gave them maybe too much respect and it was more you know let's not lose this game after our last two overtime losses and rather than go and win it and that's okay that's part of the growth of the team the high ball pressure in the early going it seemed like that was sort of determined and it led to an opening goal from from Edson that you know you can only get if you're applying that type of pressure yeah and I thought we struggled after that we did well like a star and then we kind of like all right we scored what do we do now and I think we sat back gave them a little bit too much respect which is due but I think we we let them have their center backs have too much time in the ball and you saw we made a little change in the second half which led to another couple of chances that we could have we could have put in as well and all in all a pretty good result the day against a pretty good team now you head back out of the road for four games and before you know it we're gonna be talking about conference play at that point do you feel like your team for consecutive results is moving in the direction that you wanted to as we get towards conference play yeah of course and actually we had about having a development game last night against Eastern's reserves and and those guys actually got some minutes today because they worked really hard so yeah this is what it is non-conference in you know any game we play right now is all building for conference play so I'm really happy because we're gonna see teams as as quality as this caliber in our conference and and over the next four games on the road it's gonna be very tough but this was a good test of our character and I think we came through it with some pass marks and we'll be ready to go on Saturday all right coach thank you very much we'll see in a few weeks great thanks he's Graham Miller I'm Glenn Clark go Mustang sports.com