Thread: How does your team spend the Kickoff afternoon?
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Re: How does your team spend the Kickoff afternoon?
Team 461 has done this a few ways in the past.

The first option has been a Team Kickoff at the school, with a strategy and design brainstorming session immediately following. We have tried to discuss the following aspects before going into robot design specifics:

1) What do you really need to be effective in a match?
2) What things to offense, defense, etc need to focus on?
3) What should be the role of the human player?
4) What combinations of scoring give the highest output?

After we discuss these points and others regarding game objective, we sometimes break into parts. However, this year things will be done a bit differently.

Purdue FIRST is hosting a large kickoff party at the Class of 1950 lecture hall on Purdue campus. So a few teams will be there in the morning to watch. After that, teams will do seperate strategy. I will be hosting a Saturday evening dinner/brainstorming party at my house to watch the kickoff and brainstorm between members of the team. The next day we start real brainstorming stuff. That Monday there is no school for WLHS (Students from 461), so we will brainstorm then too.
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