Woohoo! 630 views, that's pretty amazing.
So today was the first day of exams, and we had a snow day. It would've been a great day to work on "Montey" our robot. Today was sceduled as a day to work on the official website, which has to be done for the 16th of February that we started to plan at yesterday. We were also scheduled to work on the sensors. Oh well.

Just an update!
We took Montey around to visit the public schools of Northumberland County. The kids even drove the robot! We also took our group photo and started thinking of fundraising ideas. Now, in week three, we have already built a second circuit board, organized our whole robotics room, worked on our blog and started programming! Another thing we’ve done is ordered our t-shirts, it’s very exciting. So yes, this is what we’ve been up to, thank you for your support and we hope to see you soon!

fundraising

We are still short of our fundraising goal, so we need everyone's support if we wish to reach it. Fundraising around the school we begin soon, so if you have any ideas for fundraisers, please let us know!

Stims

Just a friendly reminder to all team members wishing to attend the competition in Toronto. If you wish to come, you need to register with the team, online at the Stims website.
here is the link
https://my.usfirst.org/stims/site.lasso?r=1513187&-session=STIMS:C77D640502eec24F14jXIi1239B1&fuseaction=register.registration_agreement&type=student&-session=STIMS:C77D640502eec24F14jXIi1239B1

picture for paper

thanks to everyone on the comet-tron team for showing up at lunch on thursday so that we could take a picture for the paper.

All of the extra nuts and bolts were put on "Montey" our robot today! Good job manufacturing team!

On the other side of the build team worked on the *TOP SECRET* conveyer belt prototype.

The business team got "Online" and so did the programmers!

GO COMET-TRON!!! :D

Just thought that i would let everyone know that so far today, we have had 133 people view this blog. These viewers aren't just in Canada, they are also in the United States. That's right, we have people in another country checking out the Comet-tron's blog. I don't know about you guys, but I think that's pretty cool.

picture for the paper

attention all participants in the construction of Comet-Tron, on Tuesday January 17th we will be meeting in room 124 at lunch to take a picture for the local paper. Please remember to wear appropriate clothing as this photo will be most likely published in numerous places.
thank you

To do list for January 14th

things to do for the robot today are:

COURT CONSTRUCTION- The playing area of the competition needs to be built and the rules need to be researched so that the robot can continue to be constructed

ROBOT- Mockups need to be constructed and rules and specs need to be researched

PROGRAMMING- look into getting the sensors and cameras to work

COMMUNICATION- build a log, update the existing site and create a create a central storage area

Mr. Howards goal for the day is to get the robot up and running (moving and operable)
, lets make him happy!

Come to the East on Saturday, January 14nth to help with the construction of Cometron! The goal for today is to be able to drive the bot so come and see the excitement!!!