What does your team do for fun in the off-season?
 

I was just wondering what teams do for fun once build and competition season are over. My team recently finished competition season and we are planning to have some sort of gathering.

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We have a meeting discussing what we did well this year and what we need to improve for next year.

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We do things the the community, visit schools to raise awareness for the upcoming freshman, do parades to demonstrate to the community what we are all about, etc. I think we plan to go visit other high schools in our area to show them FIRST. During the summer, we have some fun. We have a BBQ to celebrate every year and we hang out with a team that we are good friends with. When school starts, our season starts.

I think our coach said he wanted to experiment with swerve drive modules since we have never tried to make a swerve drive chassis, so the chassis team may do that. Not sure yet.

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LAN party every once in a while for fun, we would like to build some drivetrains as well.

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During the build season we went Skating and had a movie night. The night before the Va Regionals we played laser tag!

We haven't figured out what to do for next year yet.

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Write software for fun

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Off seasons are by far the best off season activity for a team. :)

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That's a given though. ;) :p

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Softball! We have weekly softball games! And we do demos and have fun. We got to play with other teams this year which was fun (a one-day play-date thing with the robots). Our students are responsible for a Mentor VEX Challenge (Kids make the game) and spend a lot of time on that.

And sleep. My favorite part about the off season is that there is more sleep everyonce in a while.

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Team RUSH, in the summer, hosts the annual "RUSH Regatta" in which small groups of our team members (and whomever else) build boats out of cardboard, duck tape, glue, and paint. It's really cool. It allows us to get to know the rookies on the team and teach them some design + manufacturing concepts way before the build season starts. I'm gonna need clarification on this, but I think we're gonna let other teams compete. Let me know if you're interested :) (We're in Clarkston, Michigan, so... keep in mind you need to transport it here)

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We have "team bonding" every now and then. Basically we hang out somewhere, usually downtown, and play games/go out to dinner somewhere. There are a lot of variations; we've squeezed into someone's house and watched a movie, etc.

That's separate from our actual off season meetings though. Those are usually for debrief, administrative fluff for next year, cleaning the room, etc. We're also currently lacking a demo bot, since our previous one (chair bolted to chassis) was disassembled due to liability issues, so we're probably going to alter our Breakaway bot for that purpose. Also practice drivetrains, fooling around with camera, etc.

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We build robotics T-shirt cannons :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKCwbomY82c

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Off-Season......Hmmmmmm, what's that?:yikes:

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our team host an off season competiton at our school

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During the summer, we might have minor meetings, and we try to make an appearance at a couple of summer camps.

During the fall, we plan to attend GRITS (off season event), build VRC, and host a VRC competition.