Milk Carton Contest Starship Enterprise team 1108

[hrench]

Panther Robotics First Team 1108 from Paola Kansas has entered the "madebymilk" milk carton sculpture/invention contest with a huge Starship Enterprise.

We'd really like your help winning this contest (and grant) with your vote.

Now through Dec 9 is the time to vote for your favorite, "Madebymilk" milk carton sculptures/inventions. There are many cool entries. I encourage you to peruse them.

We hope you like our Starship Enterprise "Inter-Galactose Adventure" the best and choose to vote for it.

The direct link to vote for ours is here:

http://madebymilkcontest.com/see-entries/entries-details/?id=1144

To view all of the entries, you can go here:
http://madebymilkcontest.com/see-entries/

You can vote once with each device you have, but only once in the voting period (not every day).
Please share this post--hopefully with your help, we can get our Enterprise up to "Warp Speed!"

And Thank you.

[mastachyra]

Voted! Good Luck!

[Bkeeneykid]

Looks awesome, guys! See if I can get a vote from all my devices... :D.

[Mcomer]

Well Done! Looks great. I will share it with the LASER 3284 team and encourage them to vote as well.

[TheMilkman01]

Anything with milk is just spectacular. Good job!

[ngreen]

Anything with milk is just spectacular. Good job!

High praise coming from the Milkman!

The students put a lot of effort in, and it was a nice pre-season activity. Maybe something will come of it, to help some funding, but otherwise, it has brought some pride to our school lunch service, who initiated our involvement, and we get to display it in the school to promote STEM, sustainability, and renewable materials.

Also here is the entry essay (200 word max):

A student said, "Go big, or go home" and nothing is bigger than space, and our entry modeled off the famous TV starship, symbolizes the challenges we face both on and off this planet. Collecting milk cartons itself and re-purposing it for our entry was a lesson in otherwise wasted materials, and let students think about other daily use items that are being thrown away. The wood and wood screws were mostly salvaged from prior years team projects, and the wood frame gave a strong structure to a spacecraft that normally floats in zero gravity space. Working together on this project helped developed teamwork skills that will get used in future robotic competitions. In small, but meaningful ways, this project inspired the students, from the lead designer developing a carton-by-carton "Minecraft-like" model of the starship, to the project lead working to get others involved, to all the students that helped create it learning to safely use tools in our shop. Finally, as this next generation prepares to invent and explore their universe, they will need nourishment where ever they go, however boldly, and to accomplish this even milk cows will need to go where none have gone before.

Thanks to anyone adding their vote or sharing it! Here's a sticker (http://imgur.com/a/d6myg).

[hrench]

Last day to vote for these. It doesn't ask for any personal information.

thanks everyone.