COMMUNITY SERVICE EVENT- OPERATION SHOEBOX

On February 21, the robotics team set out to Manville to take part in Operation Shoebox New Jersey. The mission of this all-volunteer organization is to arrange the acquisition and shipment of personal items to our brave men and women serving overseas.

For this event, all the volunteers worked in a sort of assembly line, placing item after item into ziplock bags to be boxed and shipped to U.S. troops. It turned out to be a huge success, and our team really enjoyed participating in it.

February 14, 2009

It was on Valentine's Day that the backdrop for the pit area was finally completed. The photojournalism group decided to carry on team 56's superhero theme throughout the backdrop with pictures and information in a comic-like form. We also created some signs to hold up at competition, showing the spirit we have for our team. Things were beginning to get packed up in boxes for shipping, and in the end, we were pretty satisfied with ourselves.

February 11, 2009

The web design team had one of their proudest moments on Wednesday the 11th when they finally got team56.com up on the web. We all appreciate the time and effort they put into the site; the end result looked even better than we had imagined. Great work, guys!

February 7, 2009

Saturday the 7th was a rare meeting in which the team split up in two different places to get some necessary work done. With the drive and design subgroup gone doing technical work, the rest of the team gathered at Bound Brook High School to work on buttons and other hand-outs for the competitions.

January 31, 2009

By the end of the January 31st meeting, when the team gathered give a progress update on all the work going on, each subgroup was pleasantly surprised to see how far the others had gotten. With each group having so many tasks to tackle on their own, we tended to lose notice of how much our friends had on their plates, so it was nice to finally share our progress with the team as a whole.

January 28, 2009

Bound Brook High School was off today for a snow day, and, as a result, Team 56 got a break as well.

January 26, 2009

On Monday we were amazed to see how progressed the robot was becoming. Web design was working on some awesome slideshow videos; photojournalism was taking care of odds and ends like picture sorting, typing answers and finishing up the subgroup write-ups, and marketing was busy making endless buttons.