Week 4

The team has been making more design changes and has been preparing for the first presentation of the semester.  I have been personally making most of the design changes, as it is getting more and more difficult to trust some of my group mates with different tasks.  The overall racking structure is almost complete, the team just needs to worry about the gutter helmet fitting.

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