Goal: The initial budget allotted to each team was $500,000, which included capital, energy, time, energy and research costs.
Result: Despite Team L’s approach of not using external resources and sticking with the components given to use, our AEV research still used $149,00 over its goal. This was calculated by averaging the energy and time costs of the runs and adding it to the capital cost. Team L only had 2 runs, and did not have time for a 3rd test.