A project by a group of high school seniors could be the solution to helping senior citizens get prepared for hurricane season.

Six young women at the Academy of Holy Names created a robot that can go home-to-home in a neighborhood, collecting orders from senior citizens ahead of a storm.

The project was based off a prompt for the Florida Atlantic University senior showcase, and the ladies spent seven months engineering it, from concept to prototype.

“For every successful attempt with the programming and everything, there were a hundred unsuccessful attempts where it just sat there and did nothing. And you have to figure out why exactly it won’t do anything,” said Rachel Troy, one of the seniors who participated in the project. 

They say they learned many skills throughout the process including patience, perseverance and team work.

The next step will be putting the plan in action, which will likely fall on next year’s students.

They hope to partner with a third party company to deliver the orders to the seniors once they are placed on the robot.

For more, watch the video above by Spectrum News reporter Ashley Paul.