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

We debrief the season (what was good, what can be better, etc) and make a punchlist for anything we want to do for the off season competitions (work on autonomous, upgrade the ball magnet, what-have-you). We also examine leadership positions for the next year. The mentors have dinner together, and the whole team has a picnic towards the end of school. We participate in local community days, school, youth organization, corporate, and engineering expositions. We also do summer project(s): last year we did a pivot drivetrain study which led to our current semifinalist bot and Xerox Creativity Award. There's also that whole relax, bond, and sleep thing too (not necessarily in that order). During the fall, we attend off-season events, train new students, and hold classes to teach the different skills needed during build season.

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

fun? off season?


we host our own off season event (Brunswick Eruption- Yay) and we attend just about everybody else's off season competition to support them.

We also hold fund raiser events all year to raise our goal of $1000/month or more- and fund our travel for the next season

WC :cool:

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

Usually, 816's off-season consists of two off-seasons, Duel On The Delaware and Ramp Riot. We also tinker with whatever robot we're competing with at the time, usually making minor modifications. We also play with different things like programming and some random side projects, and one year (2006) we even built a "new" robot for the off-season.

Personally, my off-season will probably consist of: PARC (maybe), Monty Madness, IRI, Duel On The Delaware, Ramp Riot, Brunswick Eruption, and some pre-season CAD with my Protege.

I'd suggest that any team in or around the NJ/PA/NYC/DE area check out at least two of these off-season events: PARC, Monty Madness, Duel On The Delaware, Ramp Riot, and Brunswick Eruption. Trust me, none of those events disappoint.

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

We (675) are about outreach in the community. Over the summer we usually make a few visits to the local power and implement museum for demonstrations, sell cakes at July 4 and Labor Day BBQs, and enter our robot as an exhibit at the fair. In the spring, as well as in the fall we invite our community to pasta feeds and awards dinners. We also hold an outreach day in the park where we demonstrate our robots and talk a lot about FIRST and our program. It's always a lot of fun to be able to go out and do things in the community.