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The kids on our team start the last week of August and we have weekly meetings starting then. Our first FIRST meeting is the same day school starts. We have a new program for them this fall with teaching all the kids about mechanical, electrical and software engineering, with team-building events every 3 weeks. This will get the kids an idea of what they're interested in roboticswise, since not many have taken any kinds of classes like that. Since our team did not make it to nats this year, we used some of the money to buy custom robotics kits and are planning a mini-competition that will closely represent FIRST to get them better prepared for the design/build phase starting in Jan.
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