This website runs on PHP and MySQL.
Mentors and parents moderate the forums, feel free to post anytime you want to. At times the forums are closed to all but logged in members. This occurs when the web team is updating spam filters.
About the Site
Tim Arnold and Alex Tays run the site administration. If you have any questions regarding the website please contact either of us. Email Tim at our contact page. If you want to see some behind-the-scene information about what we are currently up to, check out our To-Do list.
MARSbot.org v3.0: New look, same great taste!
MARS Site Mission Statement
The Mission of the Website of the MARS Robotics Team 1523 is to:
- Serve as a promontional and public relations vehicle for MARS Robotics.
- Promote FIRST and Team events, programs and goals.
- Facilitate communication among MARS members, for the purpose of personal and team developement.
- Publish news and information relating to MARS, augumenting regular team emails and FIRST newsletters.
- Encourage team sponsorship by recognizing donars and maintaining a popular, frequently visited site.
Design Princples of the website...
- Navigation should be clear.
- There should be a place for member-contributed material.
- The privacy of members' personal information should be guarded.
- The tone and graphics of the website will reflect the nature and goals of the team.
- Pages will be informative, including links to reference material and sources where appropriate.
- The site will include progressive photos and archive the Team's history since "rookie" year.
MARS Website News Stories
For those interested in the evolution of this website, articles posted in the news section of the site can be accessed by clicking on this link: http://marsbot.org/taxonomy/term/26 .
Compatibility information
We recommend at least 1024x768 resolution and IE 6.0 or Firefox 1.5 for the best experience with marsbot.org. The website should degrade nicely with older browsers but some features may be unavailable.
Easter Eggs
If you are using Internet Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or greater (does not work under FireFox, sorry), when you mouse over the "MARS Robotics" text above the navigation drop downs, there are a few tones that play that fit our theme. The tones originate from the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".
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Hidden Members Only Areas
Access is limited in certain areas of this website to insure secure planning and confidentiality. Members must be logged in to view blogs, access the MARS email archive, participate in our "Members Only" section of the forum, view news stories posted with a security designation, review an "Approached Sponsors" page (set up to prevent multiple team members from seperately approaching the same business repeatedly for support) or to utilize a member specific (students/mentors) contact directory.
Link to us
Get link buttons and more at the link to us page.
Credits
2007 Team 1523 Web Subteam
Members: Britani Campbell, James Cary, Nick Clark, and Web Lead Alex Tays with mentorship from student Tim Arnold
In addition to this small but hardworking web subteam, special recognition is extended to the following people for their contributions to this site:
Photographers: Tim Arnold (student), Aaron & Pat Arnold (parent-mentors), Ed Clark (parent-mentor,) Cory & Debbie Cross (parent-mentors), Connor Howe (student) and all other team members who have shared their videos and photographs.
Video Productions: Tim Arnold (student)
Revolving Rendered MARS Logo on Animation Page: Stephen Cross (student)
Provider of Helpful and Interesting Links: James Ehle (mentor)
Team 86: Team Resistance alumni and Web mentor Josh helped produce stunning banners with his expertise in the sign and banner making field. He also helped improve the overall design and gave tips for promoting the website.
Team 180: SPAM Former SPAM webmaster Jon provided insightful tips and tricks for our web team regarding aesthetics, standards compliance, coding, accessibility and more during the 2006 season. Although not currently implemented, Jon designed a Web Ring system for MARS which we greatly appreciate and plan to use, but have unfortionately hit a technical wall. We are working on bypassing the technical limitation, so keep your eyes open for a dynamic web ring system.
