  MicroBooNE is a neutrino experiment that utilizes a liquid argon time
projection chamber (LArTPC) located on-axis in the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB)
at Fermilab. One of the experiment's main goals is to search for excess
low-energy electromagnetic-like events as seen by the MiniBooNE experiment,
located just downstream of MicroBooNE in the BNB. As MicroBooNE nears the
completion of its first single-electron-like and single-photon-like searches,
these proceedings present the status of MicroBooNE's low-energy excess search
as of early summer 2020. In addition to presenting an overview of the approach
to the analysis, we showcase results from $\pi^0$ calibrations and e/$\gamma$
separation, and sample results from sidebands aimed at validating the analysis'
progress outside the low-energy signal region.
