We have a new website: http://nanites.zymichost.com !

JANUARY 24th, 2011: Pizzicato and Lincoln High School are holding the Dough For Dollars event where 20% of net proceeds that day will go towards Lincoln.
Eat at the PSU Pizzicato location and help raise money for Lincoln's clubs (including our FTC team!).

Recently the Nanites, along with a few more people from the community, were invited to take a tour of the Vernier building. It was a cool experience, being able to see how the company works and what careers are available at a company like Vernier.

Thanks so much to Vernier for letting us experience this!

This summer, we are hosting a summer camp for kids 9-14 to learn and experience more about robotics! The site can be found here, or by clicking the banner below.

The camp, is a very minimal fee, and is open to everyone, but requires an application, which can be found here. For more information, view the actual summer camp post here.

Application opens tomorrow (Wednesday, March 30th), and closes on Wednesday, June 1st!

Feel free to email all questions, comments, and concerns to nanites4092@gmail.com.

-- The Nanites Summer Camp Team

Hey everyone... guess what's tomorrow?

Exactly, the Oregon state tournament for the FIRST Tech Challenge!
If anyone wants to come and watch, it's located at South Meadows Middle School (map here), out in Hillsboro. :)

Hope everyone's ready and excited for the fun day tomorrow, and to everyone who's going, see you there!

- The Nanites

So the Nanites went out to Hilhi for their qualifying tournament for the FIRST Tech Challenge...

BIG THANK YOU, to Hilhi for hosting the tournament.
And another BIG THANK YOU, to team 3515, Untitled-8, for being amazing and picking us for the final alliance, even when we were ranked basically last on the charts. (: (haha...)
And of course, A BIG THANK YOU to our coaches, mentors, and definitely to our families!

Seems that there's a trend:
At state last year's FLL tournament, we got a 75 point run (out of 400), and managed to sneak into Atlanta.
This year, after being ranked 13th (out of 14 teams...), we still somehow win Inspire?

I think we're just lucky.

Our video concerning some of the bigger points of our outreach this season. :)

On Monday, January 31st, the Nanites will be going to Bridlemile Elementary to do a demo on the FIRST program! More information can be found on the PDF file below:

We saw some great competition over the past 2 days at the Oregon State FLL Tournament. Everybody did an awesome job, and it was very impressive!

Tomorrow (Saturday) and this Sunday - January 15th and 16th - is the FLL State Championships for Oregon and Southwestern Washington! If you live in the area, invite friends and families to come watch and support the amazing robotics program that many FTC participants were once part of. (:

Also, all of our team members will be volunteering for the tournament, helping lead tours for the Jr. FLL teams, and helping at the pit. If you come to the tournament, keep watch for Vicki and Ida as emcees during tournament, something that should be somewhat entertaining to watch.

Good luck to all teams!

Hi everyone,

We made the 20 tooth white sprocket that goes with the TETRIX tank treads. Again, these weren't in the kit of parts, and since they're part of our robot design, we decided to just make them in ProE. Click the preview below to download. (:



Also, if you want to see the other unofficial CAD models we've made, click here to go to our main site's CAD model page.

Hope you guys had a good Christmas and New Year's!