[Karibou]

1. My guesses have already been made in all of the threads that have popped up that over-analyze everything that's been in Bill's Blog. I'm guessing that FIRST is "going green" this year, and the theme will be recycling.
2. Our entire team goes to a local kickoff (in Novi, MI). After leaving the school at 6am, spending an hour waiting for the broadcast to start, and watching the broadcast (cutting off the circulation in my friend's arm in the process out of excitement for the game release), we send a few students to go grab the KoP. The rest of us go to lunch. Some of the rookies and vets who aren't as excited just sit around and goof off, but the rest of us (dedicated) students and mentors huddle around computers and begin reading the rules/early brainstorming. We normally then go home and let everyone relax and sleep on it (unless they're like me, and stay up until 1am reading the rules cover-to-cover and brainstorming on my own), and have a team brainstorming session the next day. However, I believe that we're going to be doing the brainstorming session on the 9th this year, soooo...that's still up in the air.
The sub-groups begin working on Monday. The build team begins prototyping ideas from the brainstorming session, and often the design team will help with that until ideas are generated. Controls begins playing with the fancy new electronics and learn as much about them as they can. Strategy continues brainstorming and analyzes the results of prototyping to determine what the robot needs to do - once they make a decision, they hand it off to the design team to begin the CAD process.

I need to stop talking so much :/