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Photo Updates

The site has been updated to hold all of our old photo albums…. check it out:
http://jesuitrobotics.org/photos/

Engineering Day Announcement

This is our OFFICIAL announcement of Engineering Day to the Web:
The Jesuit Robotics team, now in its 7th year, is sponsoring an event to encourage more area high schools to become involved in the  MATE (Marine Advanced Technology Education) ROV competition, to encourage today’s youth to become engaged in science and engineering and to promote [...]

We’re back in season!

Just a quickie today… Jesuit Robotics is back in school starting today… so things will start happening to the Jesuit Robotics site again. We are hitting the ground running this season, and already have many events planned for the next several months.. so stay tuned. We also have a number of robotics projects in the [...]

MATE 2009 Pictures Online Now!

Pictures from the 2009 MATE competition are now online! You can see pictures of the team at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy competing with the 2009 Eripio ROV…
CHECK IT OUT: http://jesuitrobotics.org/photos/mate-2009-pics/
Also, new pictures have been added to the 2009 season gallery. Be sure to check those out too!

MATE 2009 Review

MATE 2009 was absolutely amazing this year. We were able to essentialy rescue our ROV. Due to continued electronics difficulties, we were required to ship a dead ROV and develop an entirely new electronics system. We were able to use the MAKER controller board to replace many of our electronics subsystems.
This years competition was held [...]

MATE Day 1

This marks the end of day 1 of the MATE competition. It was really cool, and we passed safety inspection, made our technical presentation and made final testing at the Hampton inn and suites. We are now succesfil with our controls after finishing a brain repair with the new maker board system. We will have [...]

Maker Faire 2009 Video

We have a compilation video from Maker Faire 2009! It shows various aspects of the Faire, and shows off many different projects. We had a great time at Maker Faire, and hope to see you guys there next year!

Maker Faire Bay Area 2009 Rocked!

Today was our first day back after Maker Faire Bay Area 2009. We started by unloading our marauder-mobile (© 2009) and then later worked on our ROV for competitions.
We were featured on MakerFaire.com (pic below)
We also won an Editors Choice ribbon from the show producer for our booth promoting underwater robotics. We ran a [...]

Jesuit Robotics is featured on CNET

Jesuit Robotics was featured on CNET! We have a picture of us and our booth on a CNET post.
Check it out HERE

See us on twitter!

Check out Jesuit Robotics on twitter.
Go to twitter.com/jhsrobo or jesuitrobotics.org/twitter-updates

Maker Faire Day 1 Summary

This post marks the end of maker faire day 1. We had a great time setting up, (our booth is AMAZING!) then explored the faire before the public gets to see. If you’re coming down, this years faire is going to be exciting. We ended the day at the faire with the makers dinner… (the [...]

We are at maker faire!

The robotics team is now at maker faire. We are currently checking in and will later do setup. Expect more post throughout the weekend

Look at our AWESOME new banner!

The Public Relations people have designed this AWESOME new banner! We’re having it printed at a LARGE 3′x10′ size, and you can see it at Maker Faire, where we will be exhibiting on Grass J.

Eripio Pool Testing In Monterey

This past weekend, we took our ROV down to Monterey to have our first public test run of the ROV. Our ROV did a great job, and was able to complete all tasks required to qualify for the MATE competition.

Jesuit Robotics is FEATURED on Make Magzine

Today, the Jesuit robotics team was featured in the Make Magazine Blog, and had links to our site, and a repost of the video that our Public Relations team put together. 
 
Check out the post at http://tinyurl.com/JHSrobo-makezine