 Hi, I'm Ruth McGee. I'm Joan Gibbons. And we are two of 40 students from the UC Berkeley and University of Denver who worked over the last two and a half years to build the RISE home. The competition our team joined was the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. It's a collegiate competition to design, build, transport, and showcase a net zero energy home. It's been an entirely student-led, student-designed and student-built project. We partnered with the University of Denver about a year ago for the construction of the home. So the house was designed and engineered at Berkeley and then constructed with the help of University of Denver students. Starting out I was working kind of doing social media type of stuff and then I transitioned into being head of construction along with Ruth. And so we did a lot of the pre-construction stuff, the estimate, the schedules. The experience was unlike anything I've ever done. It was totally not what I was expecting. It was way more work than I thought it would be when I got into it. But it kind of was a labor of love in that I fell in love with this project and the house that we built. And I just learned everything from electrical to drywall to just framing a house which were things that I had no idea about before. We designed our house for Richmond, California and we really designed the house to meet Richmond's needs. We did a lot of background research to make sure that the house went beyond just the competition and really worked with the Richmond community. It was such a wonderful thing for us to win third. We were just beyond excited. We were kind of coming in with our hopes a little low but we knew we had put in our heart and soul into this project for the last two and a half years. So it was really really exciting. In the moment when we won third they had just announced fourth place and we all thought that there was absolutely no chance we were going to win anything. We were all kind of you know that oh no moment like we're done we're out and then they announced our name and it was one of the most amazing moments. This win meant a ton to me. I was so excited to have the hard work that I put in for two and a half years validated. The judges thought our house was great but also it performed really well and we were kind of an underdog team in that we built the whole house ourselves and we had mostly undergraduates and so that was really cool too to see that we could pull it off.