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our team meets everynight during the week and we say that we will work from 5:30 to 8:30 but it usually goes longer than that. we have to do the meetings that late becuase our engineers dont get off until about five so they cant get to our school any earlier. and then we work usually on saturdays from about 9:00 to 2:00. and we dont work on sundays until we get to the end of the six weeks and really need to work.
we start the year off watching the kick off at a room at our university and then for that first week we really talk about different ideas, make prototypes, designs, and finally decisions. then we start building it and finishing our designs. we get to build in our shop at our high school. it doesnt have real new technology but it all works for us and we still get the job done.
our team tried dividing into different groups for kinda the first time this year. we had a design group, animation, electronics, publicity, and building groups. it worked out for some and not for others.
on wednesdays we have the parents bring in dinner for the whole team at 5:00 so that we can be more like a family and get to know each other better.
for regionals and nationals anyone on the team can go as long as they had a good attendance record. to go you had to have like an eighty percent record but most everyone got that. but i think it might be a little different this year. also for the drivers and human players, its really who has practiced with the robot and who is good at it. we really dont change drivers but we do change the human players just about everytime and anyone can do that you just have to ask.
i hope this helps you out any.
jessi
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