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Originally Posted by Chief Hedgehog
@ xXhunter47Xx -
What were some of the team building exercises did your team try? We had a small group of leaders that were brainstorming on ideas this last season - but never came to fruition. Some ideas that they had were mouse trap cars, balsa bridges, etc.
Are these the same type you had going?
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We actually had Tetrix stuff from when we did FTC and VEX stuff from the Principles of Engineering class that our head honcho teacher lovingly let us use. We had all this stuff laying around so we actually just stole a FTC challenge and gave it to the incoming members to get them used to the idea of building a robot. We gave them a six week period (similar to FRC, but only met once per week as opposed to 5 times a week for Build Season), and it gave everyone a taste of building a robot.
This also helped with our time management since programming did not finish programming the robot, so we had an idea of where these guys are.
If you have the money, I'd say invest in at least a Lego Mindstorms Kit and a set of lego Technic pieces to go along with it if you do not have VEX or Tetrix stuff. It not only provides a team building exercise in the off-season but will also provide a lot of prototyping potential.