Final Post.

Well with every senior from the class of 2014 at South Plantation High officially out of school, that would have to include us here on Solar Team Finance. Its been a remarkable run and have so many of you to thank including our sponsors and business partners who have been able to make so much of what we do possible. This will be our final blog on this page stating our leave as well as announcing that next year's Solar Knight Seniors will take our place. To continue what we had accomplished this year with our Solar Car's "Solar Knight 3" and "Solar Templar 1." Thank you everyone who followed for all your support and have any final interest of asking questions on Solar Knights' future Email me at sphsengineeringeric@gmail.com so I can provide you with answers. Its been a big year for the Solar Knights and now we leave our legacy to the class of 2015 to make it bigger. Team finance class of 2014 over and out.

-Eric Hernandez & Camilo Quintero

Goals of the week for 5/12

Well so far we are winding down from this year since today marks our countdown to our final days at South. Officially ending May 22nd next Thursday as last exam day for seniors. Well our robots have been reveled close to their final stages and we can see that a 150 lb block of cement with a motor sorta made its own "Uber" tier. Sometime this week finance is going to pay a visit to Edco about the plaque.

Hello Edco? Tertrics part famine- 5/9/14

Well we haven't heard from edco respond to our email about a tax reduction or cut but other than that we have the plaque of choice and just need to add a logo to finalize our order. We are both planing to stop by there later in person at Edco off 441. While robot building is getting rougher since parts are becoming scarce and we stripped apart most of the old robots by now.

Robots and Plaques-5/5/14

This week Team finance has parted their seperate ways still in robot tug of war competitiveness. We have gotten together choosing what plaque we plan on ordering for one of our own Templar sponsors this year. Mainly robots are getting built from scavenged parts and the building over is going well. Despite the evil genus plans we predict Fernando's robot will hold.

Flux Schooling 101 4/25/14

What have we accomplished this week...? Well considering we have been out of our classroom for 2 days this week, playing flux and learning to lose ugly all week pretty much sums it up. Not to mention the Tuesday we had off on top of being evicted from HQ. What I learned this week however is a lifelong lesson. "NEVER PLAY WITH JASON IN FLUX. EVER"- Eric Hernandez You all have been warned.

Week of 4/18/14

We just made it out of senior symposium with our smooth presentations and feel really confident overall. Although ranting is required to Kinkos/FedEx office, or what every they want to call it anymore, on the price to print 1 POWERPOINT PAGE. Wtf Kinkos, not cool at all. Its still gonna be ok though since being 70 bucks in debt isn't so bad questionably knowing if you get a medal for doing a project #Magentkidprobs

Le board de Finance:Solar Templah! (Startting Price for sale:$70.01)

Overtime. Week of 4/14 accomplishments

• Got 6 of our 12 volt 55 amp batteries in today from Grubber Power Services(GPS)
• Spoke with Ashwin of Grubber power to talk and discuss potential sponsorship
• Started collecting all  records of all our financial accomplishments this year

         Symposium approaches!(April 25th)

Goals for the week of 4/14

• Get our batteries in so mechanical team can get started on working on a box for them 
• Update each week's blog post to be presentable for symposium
• Respond to emails from other potential sponsorship interested companies

     Symposium is getting closer...

Goals of the week 03/31
1. Buy Batteries
2. Get more sponsors

                                         Eric Zealously Communicating with a Battery supplier

Goals for the week of 3/10/14

• Setting up and finalizing the kickstarter page
• Writing the description on our class for donors choose
• Emailing FERM about our documents to apply for grants
• Video editing

                                                  Camilo serious about his emailing prowess

• Take more pictures

This week of 3/3/14

• We got a few of the documents we need to apply for federal and corporate grants
• We are in contact with Deka batteries to see what we need and if they can potentially donate to us
• Indiegogo page is back up for donations 

We are still hunting for EVERY document we need that each grant application is asking for

Goals for the week

• Launching our indiegogo page as a draft before kickstarter
• Finish the doners choose page
• Get all the legal documents to apply for the Motorolla and Honda grants

Goals of the week

1. Finish the crowd funding video
2. Finish Donors choose cart
3. Launch Kickstarter

Goals of the Week

1. Create another Crowd Funding site project
2. Finish project Video
3. Finish Donors Choose Project

Goals for week of 2/10/14

This week Team Finance looks to

• Finish kickstarter video
• Apply for autodesk 3D printer funding
• Finalize and edit new video draft

Accomplishments for week of 2/1/14

• Reshot video clips for the kickstarter video
• Contacted UTI about potential Solar Knights sponsorship
• Started testing the re-obtained solar cells from the solar panel

Goals of the week

1. finish the video
2. contact more possible sponsors
3. complete any grants accessible

Accomplishments

1. received check from Bentley for 2500$
2. completed video draft.

Accomplishments

1. Indie gogo is ready for the video
2. video draft is ready
3. Edited all-ready clips from first draft kickstarter video
4. Found some old solar knight news articles to use for reference in the future

Goals of the week.
1. reshoot the kickstarter video
2. add more media to kickstarter/Indiegogo
3. Email local news stations to spread the word of our projects

Accomplishments

1. Eric edited indie gogo page, so all it needs is the video he is working on
2. I edited the kick starter, so it is ready for the video

Goals of the week
 I want to get the word out about our program, so I emailed several newspaper companies, they might want to make a story on us.
Eric is recreating the indiegogo page

Accomplished this week

-Got in contact with Josh about Emailing FPL
-Revised the Kickstarter page
-Revised the Indiegogo page
-Spoke to Bentley about a sponsorship deal

First week back means getting back into the swing of things. We are waiting for the video so we can perfect the donation pages.

Goals of the week

1. Start drafting more projects on crowd funding sites
2. get a video for our project
3. email Bentley, that we don't want any of their programs, we haven't recieved their check, and we also haven't received an email from Bentley Sponsor