What are teams doing in the summer?
 

I would like to know what other teams do (if anything) Durring the off season

Organizing and competing in the IRI

I'm cruising CD and taking a CNC machining class at the local community college two nights a week with a fellow graduated member of our team. Another member of our team is coming up with some remarkable fundraising plans - this guy is like he could be a spokesperson on those late night get rich quick infomercials. (the ones that actualy work ;)). Another member of our team is trying to get robotics summer camps going but I think it's too late, he thinks not. And last we are all meeting this Thursday to discuss fundraising. That's us so far.

My team does NOTHING during the summer, at least as a team. Some people individually work on aspects of the robot over the summer, like wheels. I really think that my team should do some fundraisers, but.. ehh. LOL.

We are planing to build a practice bot

We have done 2 summer carwashes so far

and i Am playing with all the extra parts ,building hoverbots, drive-train elements, projectile weapons and such

Oh BTY We need money, so if anyone has some sugestions on how to get sponsors e-mail them to me... TytysG@cpplgoose.com

Raising money with car washes, and taking classes at ITT Tech

We're fundraising, doing presentations, attempting to set up at least one Lego League team (the school is appropriately named Woburn Jr.), and a lot of individual things for each member to do. For the core members of the team, robotics season never ends. As I'm sure most of you know.

Yeah, Greg likes wheels.

I'm working on drive train and stuff by myself at various times. I have to order a model kit so I can have something better to look at and work with.

As for the fundraiser, you organize it. I believe we had this chat before about taking initiative instead of saying 'should' so much :D :D :D :D :D

A lot of...
 

We have to raise something like 40 k next year, so we got a couple of carwashes started. We wanted a LEGO camp so we can raise about 10 k didn't work out. Umm.... so the majority of the team our mentor hopes that we start on our some 100 hours of FIRST community service for our chairmans award. Oh yeah and we, the mechanical team are building pratice LEGO bots to see which drive train we plan on having next year, and together we're building an automatic transmission, or at least a multiple gear ratio system that we can shift on the fly.

This summer, our team is getting ready to compete in IRI. Soon, we're also going to start building on our museum, as well as start working on our community service projects, and our preperations for the upcoming OCCRA season. Of course, I'm sure that we'll end up having at least a couple of parties in there somewhere.....

3 letters:

IRI

Oh, and myself and 2 other teammates just finished teaching a class to a bunch of 7-12 year olds about basic engineering.


Other then that....thats it

Our team is not meeting, but some of the members are still very active in FIRST and will be attending off-season comps without the team.

Doing animation tutorials, preparing for IRI :), and playing with the Lego Mindstorms kit (go middle school robotics! :D )

We are showing our robot off at local daycares, daycamps, and other places trying to show ppl what FIRST is and who we are.

what we used to do
 

well in past years the students used to hold meetings over the summer to deligate some small stuff and to keep in touch mostly they were just small parties, but since i went to college im not sure if they are doing nething nemore