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How To Handle The Off-Season
So I'm the proud papa of two FLL teams that will be launching this week (late, I know, but it's as soon as we could get the approvals!). It's certain to be a trip, since this is my first time working with FLL teams.
Given the calendar, there's a non-zero chance our FLL competition season will be done before the FRC Kickoff. I'd love to find a way to keep the kids involved, either by doing demos or part-shadowing an FRC team*, but I was wondering what other teams have done to keep their FLLers warm between the end of a competition season and the start of the next one.
*I was talking at Palmetto with a mentor from 4533, who mentioned they took their FRC robot into their gym later in build season, gave the sticks to their FLL kids, and told them to break the robot. This seems like either the best idea ever or the worst idea ever!
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William "Billfred" Leverette - Gamecock/ Jessica Boucher victim/ Marketing & Sales Specialist at AndyMark
2004-2006: FRC 1293 (D5 Robotics) - Student, Mentor, Coach
2007-2009: FRC 1618 (Capital Robotics) - Mentor, Coach
2009-2013: FRC 2815 (Los Pollos Locos) - Mentor, Coach - Palmetto '09, Peachtree '11, Palmetto '11, Palmetto '12
2010: FRC 1398 (Keenan Robo-Raiders) - Mentor - Palmetto '10
2014-2016: FRC 4901 (Garnet Squadron) - Co-Founder and Head Bot Coach - Orlando '14, SCRIW '16
2017-: FRC 5402 (Iron Kings) - Mentor
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