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We're doing several things.

First of all, education.
A few weeks ago we had a five-day summer workshops for all the new people joining the group (to prepare them to offseason events and 2013 Season). We had three courses: Building (a combination of Mechanics and Electronics, in our team both are adressed as one. In that course students learn to build a basic robot, a simple drive train with an additional mechanism, this time a piston that acted as a ball-kicker), Programming (JAVA basics, OOP, and robot programming in JAVA) and CAD (use of Autodesk Inventor).
In addition in the later half of August we will haev some lectures for the whole team (we can't do anything until then because our school is closed since all of it's employees are on vacation).

Secondly, work and preparation.
During the past two weeks we worked on our 2012 robot, fixing it and improving it for the offseason event we were supposed to have on August and was recently delayed to October. We made sure the new students were occupied all the time, so they gain experience. This too will continue in late August, but on a smaller scale.