Greetings, Tankers!

With a (quite large) winter break behind us, it’s back to the grind! We’ve got a lot on the docket for these next few months to prepare for the summer.

Plans and Drawings

– Turret assembly and turret rotation mechanism assembly detailed and drawn

– Final Drive assembly detailed, drawn and finalized (Final Final Drive!)

– Chassis detailed and drawn.

– Running gear detailed and drawn.

Events and Networking

– Fort Indiantown Gap, Battle of the Bulge visit.

– Grow our list of engineering contacts

– Grow our list of History-related contacts (specifically museum and restoration related groups)

– Continue to push

Fundraiser

– We hope to detail out a fundraising campaign worthy of this project. As many of you know, designing a tank is fine and all but until we have the cash we can’t build. One of the major tasks this semester is to plan out the fundraiser, hammer out some of the details of how that will work and ways to make it work. This includes

– Reaching out to the 300 contacts we already have

– Gauging interest in the project.

– Deciding on a final fundraising goal, we need to decide what the scope of the project is actually going to be, pipe dreams aside.

Website

– The website will be getting a slight restructure because if I can’t find a page, then no user will be able to navigate easily. Feedback is always great, our contact form works so go ahead and give us a shout if something’s not working or awkward to use.

– We hope to push weekly updates out on here, keep everyone up to date

N E W S

We received word back from the Czech National Library that we are, in fact, allowed to publish all of the photos/details we received from them! So stay tuned and we’ll be putting the entire library up on the website later today, or whenever I get bored this week.

That’s it for right now, I’ll see you around!

-T.ankmann