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synth3tk 11-10-2007 23:02

Re: Pre-build season activities
 
The other, much bigger, problem is that our school administration is... a bit... "stingy" with the funds and time spent in the building. I can't seem to get us a warehouse or shop outside the school to work in, and that stops us from attending other events. I would've loved to sign us up to help a pre-rookie team for Brunswick Eruption and other cool things. But during the regionals one of the board members came down and met us, talked, and watched a little bit, and he said he'll talk to the board about helping out some more. Either way, a team's a team, and in the end, it's better than nothing. :)

Pavan Dave 11-10-2007 23:04

Re: Pre-build season activities
 
*Sorry I voted wrong. -- I understood the question as "How many hours a week/day on average does your team meet?"

We spend sessions of three to four hours (aproximately six) to learn FLL and get familiar with the LEGO kits. Aftewards we mentor FLL teams and help out, host, and run, the BEST tournament and the FLL tournament.

On an average week a student spends between 5-15 hours depending on the requirements for elementary school they are mentoring but sometimes more or less depending on if we are working robotics tournaments.

We don't do much FRC work until January though.

T3_1565 11-10-2007 23:06

Re: Pre-build season activities
 
yep the team is still alive which is a good thing! our rookie year (2005) got us our own classroom for that year only. We lost our team for 2006 due to lack of teacher interest, and now the team is back and we share a classroom with a programming/ engineering class (half the classroom is computers the other have has work stations to, say, repair computers).

So we understand the problems with the higher ups! lol but we are proud that we are still alive and kicking and ready to show everyone what we can do! this pre-season is huge in comparision to previous years (last year more importantly)

JaneYoung 11-10-2007 23:28

Re: Pre-build season activities
 
We compete in a fall competition called BEST. It is not FIRST related but a lot of the training, development, etc., meshes nicely with FIRST training/development. It is an intensive build/program and demands a lot out of a team. The hours accumulate easily.

Edit:
Things I like to see worked on with each new season approaching:
- shop safety and understanding why things like closed shoes are important.
- we have learned that fundraising and outreach are on-going. They can be done well during the summer months if students/parents are interested. There is usually a group of returning members that stay interested and will work with you. If doing these in the fall, we try to have big impact with a little bit of time. The students have to focus on school and other activities.
- team building. Anytime an opportunity arises, it is awesome to have a team building exercise available. An evening of fun and team building is good.
- student brainstorming in the area of development they would like to work on. We're learning this year how valuable and time well spent this is.

GaryVoshol 12-10-2007 07:49

Re: Pre-build season activities
 
Weekly meetings in the fall, so students get to know each other and general topics can be covered. Programming, gears, drivetrain, arms, etc. Not everyone is there every time, but then not everyone is there every minute of build season either.

A few social activities were held.

Several fundraising events have been held or are planned - cold calls on local businesses, a bowl-a-thon, restaurant nights, etc.

Over the summer, about 7 or 8 students helped with a 4-week LEGO camp.

3dude_2231 12-10-2007 19:53

Re: Pre-build season activities
 
we're don't really know at the moment, how things would turn up
but we are hoping to maximize the number of pre-season-meeting,

but as our team is mostly constructed of newbies, we need to find the balance:
not to lose their excitement, but with it not to lose precious time.

I'd say we would have some 20 hrs of newbie-guidance (or "refreshment time" for the "veterans")
+a few hours of strategy-planning for those guys who know how FIRST games usually look like =]
at the beginning of the season we would unite both groups.


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