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Last year at Nationals, we combined our pit area with Team 115 (we took out the barrier between the pit), and decided to "dress it up a little."
We put down astroturf on both pits, brought in lawn chairs and sun umbrellas. Then we had a few of the team members lying around sunning themselves while others whipped up smoothies in the blender, and made popcorn in the microwave (both of which were passed out to anyone wandering by), which was sitting on top of the refrigerator full of fruit (for the smoothies) and sodas. The crowning touch was when we set up a mini-golf course, complete with a little rotating windmill on the ninth hole (the windmill was powered by a seat motor from the kit!).
Somewhere in there, we also had a robot. I think.
So the challenge this year is to see if we can do better. I am not sure exactly what we will do, but I am sure that it will involve lots of duct tape. We may not win the competition, but we WILL have a lot of fun!
-dave
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