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Shortly after our last event of the season, we have a management change: the seniors "graduate", and the juniors take their places as the team leaders, according to the management formation they choose for themselves.
Immediately after we begin recruiting new members (may-june-ish).
Our first actual robot-related activity is workshops we hold at the beginning of summer vacation, in which we teach our new recruits all the basics they need to actively participate in the build season, each in the field of the subteam he chose to join.
After summer vacation (during most of which we don't have access to our workshop because the school is closed), we start preparing for the Israeli OffSeason that takes place in september (usually): fixing the robot, improving it, maybe making changes or adding new mechanisms.
Almost immediately after the competition, we start preparing for FLFL, an offseason event with a different, easier game designed to help teams train and so that the new students experience something similar to a build season. During the preperations for FLFL (where we build a new robot from scratch), we work exactly as we do during build season, only with less frequent meetings, but wego through the same proscess as during build season.
Kickoff is usually two-three weeks after the FLFL competition.

If you have any questions about any of this just PM me and I'd love to answer.