Thats a good question. After Nationals we do a lot of demo's. We have 9 elementary schools in our town, we try and bring the robot around showing the kids, they love it, and its fun for us too. We fundraise almost all year, we do a lot of fundraising in the summer, it might sound crazy but it works pretty good. During build season we are so wrapped up in with the robot time is really important. Fundraising in the summer and fall helps because it is one less thing on our list during the 6 weeks but we still do stuff in the build season.
-Katie

Uhhhhh...........
 

GregT, What were you guys beforeyou joined as a FIRST team? A group of robot people who played with tools all the time?
C~ya,
Carolyn

Re: Uhhhhh...........
 

Um.. we were a bunch of kids who hung around the same tech room all day, screwed with computers, blew things up, and made one assistant principal very mad. We also welded stuff togeather because we had nothing better to do.

FIRST came along (thanks to patrick) and we just started being a bit more productive. Of course none of us welded anything because we all stunk at it, and welding alluminum is a bit MORE then tricky.

Oh, I see. You guys went from destructive to constructive. Sounds good to me.
C~ya,
Carolyn

No, we are still destructive, we are just constructive as well.

Can you give an example?? I can't think of one...
:p

Do Tell. (EOM)
 

:eek:

Hey, we are plenty productive... like that time we smashed that can with that big sharp thing you made... or when we figured out that the computers reboot if you hit them hard enough (we are still baffled as to why).

If that is your idea of CONstructive.... Should I dare ask for an example of DEstructive?

Patrick

I'm not seein' a difference. (EOM)
 

:confused:

You think we take pictures? What are you? crazy? The last thing we need is physical evidence isn't it?

Well i think this counts as PROductive:



Yes that is dumb and dumber... and yes we did hook it up to the bus tv's:


and YES we were going at least 50 and he was standing on those foldup/down seat armrests...

and YES we did network the computers, howelse were we going to play multiplayer games?


That productive enough for you patrick? :)

We meet about late October, start introducing new team members, we started to design a cart but we just used the old one, but its really slow and boring until kick-off. We rarely do anything in the summer, even though wish we would. After competition, we did a few demos. I'm probably the only person on my team thats obsessed about FIRST, that may be why I wish we did more, everyone on my team thinks I'm crazy because I'm so obsessed with it, I don't understand why. Am I crazy for liking FIRST so much?

Hey don't feel bad. I'm with you. I know what the obsession is like, because I go thorough withdrawl during the summer. It may sound crazy but I can't wait to go back to school so I can play around with the robot. Only 24 more days!!