[Alex Webber]

In the past, our team has attended a local kickoff about 45 minutes away. This year we are just going to do it at our school.

While going to Kickoffs with other teams is always fun, out team seems to get separated and nothing really gets accomplished there, particularly with the new members. We also do not get cell phone service in the building where it is held, and there isn't any wifi so we are unable to look at Reddit, CD, and download clean copies of the game manual.

At our school, while we do not have service, our district implemented a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) last year, so there is WiFi. We will be able to walk through the design process as a team together, and will eventually split off into groups.

Another disadvantage of our team attending a kickoff, we lose around 4 hours to take pictures, eat, get there and back. Our team members could get 30 minutes of sleep that they wouldn't get for the next 6 weeks.

The only real disadvantage to having it at our school, when we break into groups, friends go with friends, subteams go into subteams, and new people go with new people. If everyone goes into their own subteams group, then that's all they brainstorm for.

We are looking forward to hopefully correct some of these errores either way.