September 12, 2018 Weekly Blog

This week we were finally able to meet our small-scale track coach, Kevin Brasil. He gave us some insight on how the senior project works like funding and scheduling and such. He also told us about what the team tried to accomplish last year and their reasoning behind the choices they made. In addition, Kevin gave us some ideas on how to move forward and improve the track and things to start looking into specifically, such as costs and budgeting.

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