For those of you who are keen-eyed and constantly checking in on our site, you may have noticed a shift in the web design. For those of you following our RSS feed, head on over to our website to check out the improvements. We’ve been working on many of the additions for over a month now, and we’re proud to unveil what we have so far. Some areas of the site are still under construction, so please keep your hard-hats on and watch for falling debris. We’ll have everything polished up in about two weeks.

In the meantime, take a look around, marvel at the new sidebar and the new navigation structure. Take a look at our gorgeous (in most cases 800 X 600) photos by clicking on the thumbnail previews. If something doesn’t look right, please let us know via our all-new contact form.

We’re currently working on a complete redesign of our entire website, including an all new front page. For those of you who subscribe to our RSS feed but don’t visit often, come on by and see our redesigned blog page. We don’t have a definite launch date for the rest of the site, but we’re planning on having it all up within the next few weeks.

We are extremely proud to announce that the Princeton team has won first place in the Design Competition of the 2008 IGVC. The Design Competition evaluated teams’ technical papers as well as an oral presentation and a robot inspection. We were selected as one of 6 finalists this morning, and gave a second oral presentation to a new set of judges in the afternoon. The winners were announced during an awards ceremony at 5pm. Congratulations to all of the Design Finalists: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, University of Detroit Mercy, Missouri University of Science and Technology, California State University Northridge, and École de technologie supérieure.

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