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Re: What Does Your Off Season Look Like?

We are a extremely small team (7-11 students, with only 3-4 doing most of the work). Due to this, we don't do too much off-season. We always go to one hometown off-season in September, where we hopefully bring new students who might be interested to experience a portion of a regional. We also sometimes go to an off-season in the summer, but that is mainly just to have fun.

Last year we built a t-shirt bot between September and January. It mainly helped increase everyone's cad skills. We don't get too much off-season participation from the few members (or even build season participation for that matter) because our school is a very sports oriented school, and except for the 3-4 students, the others just can't possibly imagine not doing a sport and doing robotics (mainly track, cross country, baseball, and swimming).

Because of this, us 4 "main" students just work on individual projects here and there, working with our mentor and each other, just honing any skills we might find lacking. For example, last off season I honed and sped up my cading skills by cading up our 2013 bot (our team didn't cad before 2015).

I just shared what we do in our situation. Obviously this process will be completely different for your team, depending on size, participation, and resources. Good Luck!
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