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May 22, 2017

Today was probably the most amount of work CJ and I have had to do. We had to do everything from finding an article to experimentation with code. We decided to take matters into our own hands and take our own pictures to test with. The waiting game is starting to drag on for too long; we need to start getting things done, with or without help. All it took was CJ's camera and bike and suddenly we had enough to work with. There is still work to be done. All of the documents and files to be sent to President Lyle need to be worked on and the rest of the day was to accomplish that task. By the end of the day, CJ managed to get the code to load the video. it looks like we may be one step closer to figuring this algorithm out. Now we need the article about the trails to provide more details to the summary that will be sent to President Lyle.

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