[Pat Arnold]

We meet every other week in our founding sponsor's cafeteria (Thanks GE Healthcare! Our regular Jupiter High School workspace is not accessible). Generally the group consists of parent-mentors & students; our one teacher often travels in the summer.

Agenda items include scheduling the majority of our community outreach activities, fundraising (we hold carwashes in GE's parking lot), team organization issues and social/team building events (robot obstacle course driving, etc.) We built a t-shirt canon for our 2005 robot last summer. Since we do not have any machine shop access, our build type activities are limited to what can be done in a member's garage.

We remove robots & pit items we know we'll need each summer from Jupiter High; this involves good organization & a tracking system. MARS usually attends one off season robot competition (Mission Mayhem) & summer meetings help us to be prepared.