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Originally Posted by Jash_J
In order to survive the first week, we included things to look forward to such as a mentor vs student dodgeball game at the end of the first week. We also ensured the students had different food to eat every day when they came in (aka, not just pizza) - they were quite happy about this.  |
The team I was on last year made it a point to enlist parents' help to provide team meals during build season. Each family would sign up for a different night in rotation. We really enjoyed having a different hot meal each night, and we saw lots of cultural diversity represented: butter chicken, stir fried noodles, pulled pork, perogies, lasagna, pasta, ...
We also discovered that gathering everyone together for a meal was the perfect time to do team meetings and status reports. We didn't do the meals this year due to the nature of our build space, and we really missed that team touchpoint.