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There are so many things to do!

Next year you will be elegible to compete for the Chairman's Award. Find out what other Chairman's Award winning teams have done... try doing a few of those things, and documenting them. Photos, video, thank you letters, media clippings... start building a scrapbook for your team. Maybe you could put it all on your....

Web Site. How's your team website looking? You can start competing for your regional website award now. It would be especially great if you had some...

CAD drawings. Did you use CAD much this year... it took us a few years to get good enough at Inventor that we could throw together designs faster and more reliably in CAD than we could using mockups, but once we got there... there was no looking back. A great way to challenge yourself would be to model a...

Demo robot. You don't actually need to take this year's FRC robot apart (in fact I had a team rule that we always had to have one robot in perfect running condition in case a visitor dropped by and needed a demo) so look out for some of the alternative controllers and build around one of them. A VEX controller (not even the VEX pro... just a plain old VEX unit... even a second-hand PIC based one) has more than enough power to run a demo robot.

Hope those ideas help...

Jason