 The undergraduate research project that our team is working on is to create a competition that the participants will design a drone system that can actively track one of the several ground robots in a miniature city automatically. I joined this undergraduate research project by registering for the vertically integrated project course. There are multiple professors including Dr. Lu along with other graduate students as mentors for our research project. They usually provide us with access to the online resources like existing work or papers and also talk to us personally to give us their personal experiences and help us solve the team management problems. Advising first time undergraduate students has many benefits. First they look at things differently also they come out very different ideas how to solve problems. For Hongjiao I think over the last year he has demonstrated exceptional leadership skills communication skills and really look at things from a very different angle. In fact I suggested a solution and a few weeks later he told me I was wrong and my solution didn't really work so that was a very inspiring experience learning from first time undergraduate researchers. I would definitely recommend students to do an undergraduate research project because it's so different from classic classroom settings and more of like internship experiences you get the chance to work on practical problems earlier than others in the academic setting. This undergraduate research project helps me find my interest in autonomous vehicles and motivates me to further study in this area in my future master degree.