The Dark Horses

What our team has done

January 4th, 2019

On the first day, we decided the jobs that everybody all have. We decided on Ethan being the website editor, faith designing the logo and possibly being the driver, abby being a mechanic and helping in general, and Andrew designing the logo. We have gathered many possible sponsors including Dunkin Donuts, El Jalapeno 2, Morris Drains, Los Gallos, Brilex, Pronefian Software Services, The Ramhoff Family, and Armstrong. Finally for our car, we choose the black car because it matched our dark theme.

January 8th, 2019

For the second day of working on soap box derby we began to collect our bearings and everybody started to settle in to their jobs. We are deciding between two of our group members for the role of driver, Faith and Connor. We have them stretching to see who will be the best fit for arguably the most important position in the team. We are also beginning to design our logo, there are a few people coming up with designs so we are going to vote for the best in a few weeks right before the submission date. Finally, we are growing our website more and adding features like the pictures, sponsors, and all about our team.

January 9, 2019

This has not been the most eventful day of working on soap box derby. It mainly consisted of interviewing people for our website, gathering information like hobbies, interests, and their role in the team. The more creative people of the team continued working on logos and the more tech savvy people of the team continued to work on our website.

February 1, 2019

This was a more exciting day than what we have had so far. We got 3 new definite sponsors including Thunder Volleyball, Tudor Physical Therapy, and Dunkin Donuts. It is good that we are finally getting solid sponsors and there should be more to come. We also chose more specific positions for some of the team members. Seeing as she is the most artistic and willing to to it, we had Faith fully committed to creating the logo, instead of multiple people doing it. Then for the press release we have Jordan taking the lead while Connor and Andrew help in the background. These jobs are not permanent and might have people switched around to work on another project.

February 11, 2019

Today was a very normal day, we did as we would normally do, by continuing writing our press release as well as working on our website. One exciting piece of news we have is we have finally selected our driver, which will be Connor. He has been stretching a lot and looks the best for the role. We also received another sponsor in the form of Ford which is good because we are getting lots of high profile sponsors.

February 19, 2019

We thought it would be a good idea to begin writing emails about sponsorship and sending them to different organizations and companies to try to get them to sponsor us. This will help our team grow and get better recognized. Other than this we did get some new sponsors including Sandwich Factory, Precision Orthodontics, Caribbean Pools and Hot Tubs, Ohio Edison, and a gracious donation from our team member Ethan's parents.

March 4,2019

We finally have our logo done and everything is starting to look very good. We will probably not be working on this for a while as we have a very busy month ahead of us. We only have two more months to prepare for Derby Day, and we just have finish our press release and begun to work on our infomercial for our team.

April 24, 2019

This week we have begun to write a script for an infomercial about our Soap Box Derby team. We have Devin, Abby, and Sebastian writing the script, and it should be written, shot, and edited in about two weeks. We are starting to wrap everything up as we have our press release done and all of our sponsors lined up. There is only about three weeks left until the races and we should have everything prepared by then.

April 29, 2019

Now with not much time until the races, we have our press release as well as our infomercial script completed. Connor has been working hard and stretching a lot for the final day. He's looking very good and believe he is someone who can make it far into the competition. We will shoot our infomercial soon and then eventually edit it and upload it. Our car is almost ready for the race, and it should do very well.

May 14, 2019

Finally, with only a few days left until the competition, we have shot and edited our infomercial. We uploaded it onto the Austintown STEM YouTube Channel so everybody can see it. Our car is fully prepared for the race, as well as Connor who had been stretching and preparing every chance he gets. We are pretty much fully prepared here, now we just have to wait and see what happens.

May 18, 2019

This was the day of the race our team got second place and our school also took first and third place as well.