 The Battery Workforce Development Challenge is a three-year competition. The goal is to allow 12 student teams across North America to design, build, integrate, test an electric vehicle battery system and incorporate it into a stilantis vehicle to help it run as an electric vehicle. I think it's really exciting because I'm really into cars and I get to learn about building and integrating systems into cars themselves. I think it's really cool to be a part of the team and to continue to learn about something that you're interested in and build to a competition and goal that has real-world impacts. As a part of the software team I participate in weekly meetings where tasks are discussed and assigned to individuals or groups. From the very beginning it struck me as something very professional just the way that we coordinate our tasks. We always have an agenda for every meeting and I already feel like I'm learning stuff. This is my first year of the Bat Challenge. I already feel like it's having an impact. I wasn't interested in batteries before this really but I recognize this as some way where I could learn a lot about not just software but about teamwork and coordination other professional things like this that I could then use later in life. I expect the greatest takeaway will be the connections I've made and the procedures I've learned. UA has definitely provided us with a lot of great resources and funding which allows us to get materials and also be able to just compete and learn about everything that's going on so we can actually develop and build the battery. We really have seen that electric vehicles are on the rise and that they're very important to help our environment so it means a lot to me to see the University really have that dedication to things that are going to propel me towards the future workforce that I'm looking at.