[Christopher149]

Well, as I don't know the exact nature of your kickoff venue, I'll just say what we do.


So, on kickoff, we have one person go to Marquette to pickup the tote(s) while the rest of us host a kickoff/game video watching event in town. So, watch the webcast, find out the game, and begin hashing out strategies, designs, mental prototyping. I guess we can get away with this since the mentors (and at least some students) have a very solid idea of how to use our stuff, that we dive into strategy and not putting together an electronics board, etc.

Also, like Jay, we (well, at least I do) make sure to read the manual, find what changed from last year, gather dimensions, scoring rules, all that.