animation

The animation committee needs to come up with a 30-second animation on the theme of the year. For 2010: "Change Your World." Their animation must demonstrate how their idea "would change our world -- for the better" (US FIRST).

Brian Dennison - Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2011

Class of: 2015

Week 6 is upon us!! - Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2011

We are continuing to make slow and steady progress. This week's agenda: Finish installing and wiring the motors that drive the arm and claw. We have one installed and checked, and two others will be on real soon (operational by Tuesday or Wednesday we hope). We're finding we need to adjust or add to the brackets that connect the motors to the frame, to add to the stability of the motors while operating the arm and claw.

The mini-bot works awesome and we have a deployment design ready to go when the arm motors are fully installed.

Progress Report... End of week 3 - Posted: Mon, Jan 31, 2011

Just letting you know what's been going on in the BERT world...
We just finished Week number 3! We're half way there.

The Mini-Bot prototype is almost done, the plan is to test it out and make adjustments this week and have the finished Mini-Bot by the end of
the week.

The Host-Bot has the drive system on, and was being driven/tested this weekend, it was pretty awesome.

Jade Thibodeau - Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2011

Class of: 2012

Mary Szatkowski - Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2011

Class of: 2014

Lots of comittee stuff happening! - Posted: Mon, Dec 6, 2010

We've been making progress in our comittees! The website has been going though some updates and changes thanks to Eleanor O'Neill and website design folks. They will continue to update student and mentor info, as well as updated sponsor information. We've been slowly progressing with Inventor and 3D Studio Max, we have a few dedicated students learning (and teaching), getting ready for build season. The machining teams have been meeting at Eagle Industries on Sundays, working with Ron Garland and learning how to machine parts, work with the equipment.

Ted Goulet - Posted: Sun, Feb 7, 2010

This is my second year with the team. My son joined BERT as a freshman in 2009 and I hung around and helped out where ever I could. The opportunity came up at the end of the 2009-2010 season for some new folks to run the team. Although I hadn't even entertained the thought of taking it over, I was strongly convinced to do this by the former leadership. So now I am an advisor along with Scott Tracy. It is very rewarding helping out the students. It's great to see them come up with ideas when given a task and I'm looking forward to see what we come up with for the 2010-2011 competiton.