We come up with great designs and schemes to not only amuse ourselves but grow membership and town interest... it always sounds great. But we do participate in our towns 4th of July parade, aside from the good publicity it is so much fun. Last year one of our "cars" broke down so three of us picked it up and ran it onto a side street, the cops thought it was hilarious
This year, cause we haven't all heard that before, we want to do fun projects that will give us practice (hover cart, D-battery launcher, go-kart, pivot drop mount on robot to hold paintball gun) , and recruit kids to our FRC program. The one thing we have learned, it is a great time to introduce younger students to FLL and vex.