DDC was awesome! The two day meeting was extremely successful. The rendering process is started and hopefully we will start revising and editing the renderings next week. Check out some of the photos below of our meeting.

In the meantime, LAB THIS WEEKEND! We need to deconstruct the open house float and clean up lab.

We’ve been hard at work designing the 2013 float, and we need your help! We’ve decided on a concept of penguins attempting to fly. However we need a title for the float! You can see the concept and suggest a title at this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QCMSF86

This past weekend was Open House. Halfway through Farmer’s Market, it started raining, then lightening, thunder, pouring, and big hail, but despite this we still had fun and got to talk to a lot of interested students. Our special event on Friday got rained out but the next day was luckily dry for the parade and campus showcase. We brought out the high striker, our float, the mini roller coaster, and even a large and small penguin! Check out the pics below and on our Facebook page!

Coming up this weekend is DDC. A large meeting where Pomona and SLO meet to discuss this upcoming year’s float and all aspects relating to design, deco, and construction. Many of the decisions made here are important choices and set the foundation for the float.

This weekend is SLO’s Open House! Thursday we will be at Farmer’s Market, Friday we will be out on Mott Lawn with the Float to let prospective students deco, Saturday morning we will be in the parade, and Saturday morning/afternoon we will be across from the Library with our float, the high striker, and the roller coaster! It’s going to be a long weekend, but we are definitely getting the Rose Float name out to these future students!

Every year for Cal Poly’s Open House, we make a “mini” float for the Poly Royal Parade and for viewing at our booth throughout the day. In the past few weeks, we’ve been working extra hard to create a better float than past years. This next weekend, we are planning on finishing construction, painting, making details, and starting placing deco materials on the main elements.

So much to do and so little time.

TITLE

* The letters for “To The Rescue” had been cut out and painted before move down and are ready to attach to the brackets that will hold it in place.

* Since the title bubble “POW!” will be decoed with roses (!!) the sides of the bubble need to be attached so that it can be foamed.

STRETCHY GUY

* is being shaped as we speak and should be mounted on the float today.

TREE

*Since Rose Float loves to recycle…. we are using a tree from a previous float “Jungle Cuts”

* The Tree is already mounted on the float and almost finished being screened.

BRIDGE

* This absolutely gigantic element takes up almost half of the float and is a work in progress.

* It is a replica of the golden gate bridge and is already mounted on the float.

* Our boys have been hard at work consulting with ski lift mechanics in order to replicate the pulley system which will propel the train.

POND & WATERFALL

* In the park of the city scape there will be a pond which includes multiple waterfalls.

* It will be fiberglassed TODAY (!!)

TRAIN

* Is screened and already mounted on the track….. now it only has to move…..

CITY HALL

* Is mounted on the float and in the progress of being screened.

* Pillars are being shaped so that the building resembles the San Francisco City Hall.

CAL POLY LETTERS

* Cut, sealed, painted and ready to be decoed!

STRONG GUY

* He is attached to the breaking and in the progress of bein.g shaped

 BREAKING BUILDINGS

* It MOVES!!

CARS & ROAD

* The road had to be smoothed this morning and hopefully built in the near future.

TRAIN STATION

* Mounted on the float.

TALL BUILDING

* It MOVES!!! since it is over height the building must bend to go under a bridge.

FLYING GIRL

* Being shaped

HELICOPTER

* Constructed and almost ready for screening.

Design Week is officially underway! The float has been foamed, superheroes are being shaped, mechs are being perfected and murals are being decoed! The list is long and there is no lack of jobs! We would always love more volunteers, young and old, new and experienced! So please come out and get involved! Rose Float is a one of a kind program, that gives a volunteer a hands on experience with everything from metals to flowers!

Each year Cal Poly Rose Float Team strives to go above and beyond the expected! Students use their creativity to design a float that will surpass all previous floats and make the Cal Poly’s float even more spectacular. This year for the first time ever…… there will be murals!!! Cal Poly SLO students have been hard at work designing, drawing and painting the comic strip murals that will be the behind the letters of ‘Cal Poly Universities’. The comic strips tell the story of the three superheroes  on the float and their heroic deed of saving a dog from a burning building. These murals will be decoed in Pomona as they will take many weeks to complete. Instead of using color, the murals will be in a grey scale that is typical of older comic strips. Some materials used to deco the murals will be onion seed, rice, poppy seed, Spanish moss, lettuce seed, and blended blue corn. We are super excited to add this new and detailed oriented element to the Cal Poly Rose Float!

A Typical Day In The Life Of A Float

On October 22nd the San Luis Obispo Rose Float Team moved the back half of the 2012 float to Pomona. The Team has been hard at work in construction the float: the murals have been painted, the letters are sealed and painted, and the tall and collapsing building are already on the float. Stay tuned for more updates!

Click on the link at the top of the page to view the progress “To The Rescue!”