What fuels your team [Archive]

Alex Chambers

17-02-2010, 00:17

After completing week 5 and looking at my teams impressive pyramid of Mountain Dew cans. I was wondering what other teams drink to keep them running during those late nights.:D

Edoc'sil

17-02-2010, 00:18

Dew. Duh.:D

onecoolc

17-02-2010, 00:39

Mountain Dew, of course.

There is a vending machine in the teacher's lounge across the hallway. Two thirds of the time we have at least three people with a bottle from the machine in our room, the last third we've bought out the machine and are waiting for a restock.

(Beyond that, though...
This year Brandon's mom has coordinated the Team Mom's so that a different person is making us dinner everynight, and dropping it off at the school around five or so. The food is GOOD, and you can not imagine how thankful I am these women can cook for an army.)

Nigel

17-02-2010, 00:41

various cheezit products and usually pepsi

TD912

17-02-2010, 00:53

Pizza+Caffinated Soda/Pop/Lemonade/whatever-you-call-it-where-you-live

:rolleyes:

nathanww

17-02-2010, 02:33

We have this giant bag of chips that we bought to be "efficient" and not have to buy more chips every weekend. The problem is, no one wants to eat the chips without salsa, and we only buy salsa in weekend-sized containers, thus creating a bottleneck in the usability of the chips.

SteveGarward

17-02-2010, 07:31

Believe it or not, we don't exist on vegemite. Our team is fueled by a healthy mix of Cadbury chocolate, and jelly babies or similar things.

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I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
- Land Down Under, Men At Work

ttldomination

17-02-2010, 07:39

My Team works in a school, so there are few "late nights", but we do work often.

For the few times we meet at a parent's office to work, we are generally powered by Papa Johns and Coke.

On the those streaks of 5 straight days of meetings, we are powered by various goodies that our teacher mentor provides. At the beginning of the season, she stocks up on sweets and drinks from Costco.

Does the soul good.

Chris is me

17-02-2010, 07:44

2791 has the weirdest phenomena I've ever seen. All of the kids drink coffee and the adults drink Monster. It seems backward.

Zholl

17-02-2010, 08:10

we're getting by on a combination of Dew and those energy shot things. not sure what they're called, but I know I'm not touching those. I get really jittery on lots of caffeine, and that's asking for burnt fingers or bad pictures. or both.

Peter Matteson

17-02-2010, 08:11

A fuel cell...
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/32625

Kibaspirit

17-02-2010, 08:14

On Saturdays, a mom brings in a ton of Throwback Pepsi and Dew. We also eat peanut butter filled pretzels! :D

JaneYoung

17-02-2010, 10:53

'Route 44 Diet Coke with added Watermelon and Orange flavorings.'

How does that sound as a 'victory' drink for building a robot? One of our mentors can almost 'taste victory' and that is the taste. :)

Diet Coke is a staple for a couple of our mentors. The team is fed very well by our parents group who coordinates the meal sign-up/calendar. On the rare occasion that no one signs up, the team members are told in advance to bring their own snacks for that day. The drink of choice is often water.

If one is not careful with fueling with so much sugar/caffeine, it can become a nuisance/hindrance more than a help.

Jane

rsegrest

17-02-2010, 11:10

Ramen noodles LOTS of Ramen noodles) and caffenated/carbonated beverages...:rolleyes:

Andrew Schreiber

17-02-2010, 11:11

2791 has the weirdest phenomena I've ever seen. All of the kids drink coffee and the adults drink Monster. It seems backward.

The programming mentors on 397 have a nasty habit of waking up at 11 for the 11 AM meeting, complaining it is too early to be awake and grabbing a handful of Amps...And some Pepsi...and occasionally a couple of Mountain Dews. Can you tell we are college students?

As for the students, Mt Dew seems to fuel them.

cmh0114

17-02-2010, 11:43

I don't know about the mentors, but the students on the Thunderchickens are fueled by a ton of Mountain Dew. Occasionally a Pepsi finds its way in, but its usually Dew, Dew, and more Dew. :D

MCahoon

17-02-2010, 13:13

It varies from day to day, depending on whose turn it is to bring in food - Lots of frozen burritos lately

The kids have also taken to mixing apple cider and hot chocolate mixes :ahh:

The Megan 2207

17-02-2010, 13:17

We run on lots of pizza, whatever food parents bring, and LOTS of pop.

Last year we had an amazing "pop club" program with a mini-fridge full of Dew and other pop, but we lost our mini-fridge space this year.

I started bringing my own pop, but other team members started stealing it (they didn't know it was mine). Now I bring a cooler of pop every day and they reimburse me for it. They've started demanding pop with higher caffeine content, so I've switched from Dew to Vault (15mg more caffeine per can).

Koko Ed

17-02-2010, 16:14

We brew our own soda.
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f327/X-Cats/2009%20Season/Week%202/IMG_5650.jpg
Doesn't have any name yet but we could call it Powercat or something like that.

JaneYoung

17-02-2010, 16:32

Doesn't have any name yet but we could call it Powercat or something like that.

PC. Bigger, better, stronger.

*ducks*

AdamHeard

17-02-2010, 16:47

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs198.snc3/20568_222562611337_721886337_3670800_3330758_n.jpg

Dancin103

17-02-2010, 17:25

Pop and Iced Tea. Along with lots of good home cooking thanks to our generous parents that cook a meal for 40 people each night. :)

Dancin103

17-02-2010, 17:31

We brew our own soda.
Doesn't have any name yet but we could call it Powercat or something like that.

You guys are nuts! lol

Cass

Captain banana

17-02-2010, 18:03

any kind of sugar loaded soda. Maybe a monster or NOS here and there.

Swens

17-02-2010, 18:34

Our team runs off of cheap pizza and "that's what she said" jokes.

Miriam

17-02-2010, 18:35

caffine.

kwojcik

17-02-2010, 18:51

We organize for parents to share the load by bringing dinner for the team, but despite the very late nights we rarely have caffeine in the room (or at least what I notice). I don't know if this applies to other teams as much, but since the students each year are all seniors they only have one chance to do FRC and that gives them the strong desire to stay up late and prove what they can do--or at least that was the case with me when I a student on the team. Also, the occasional hilarious story or idea keeps moral up.

Raiderbots

17-02-2010, 19:03

We have tried several things; for the first couple weeks we would just pool for pizza or chipotle or even just a run to the grocery store, and then we kind of made a "sign up" where people signed up to bring food or drink for a specific night, and what we've had these last couple weeks when we're at school late we've had a couple parents bring real food, like tacos or chili or sloppy joes, and those meals are delicious We also drink a lot of Mt. Dew and Diet Pepsi.

-Team 2450