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Unread 09-03-2008, 23:26
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Re: Summertime meetings

Last year we got in a couple of meetings a week. On average maybe seven or eight students a meeting? We had build sessions for the Cal Games and C class, taught by two awesome parents. A couple of years ago we had a Solidworks class, but I don't know how many people showed up to that. Summer is an excellent time to teach rookies and recruits as well as do Outreach. Since our high school gets out for summer a few days before the local feeder middle schools, the first few days of a blessed lack of school are spent with the robot, friends and little kids. What could be more fun?

Off-topic note: I always thought calling middle schools "feeder schools" sounded like freshmen were those little feeder goldfish that people buy to feed to their bigger, carnivorous fish. Compare carnivorous fish to FIRST, gobbling up the free time of freshmen and recruits voraciously... Soon those little newbies will be completely consumed into the Chief Delphi community of FIRST!
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